Namco Europe Talks i-mode

A couple of Namco execs have answered some questions on Namco’s service in Europe, which runs on the i-mode service. The main benefit of the service is that it gives Namco control over the servers, whereas in other systems the carriers have control.

We initially pitched in to Vodafone and T-Mobile, and from a technology point of view, it was impossible. i-mode is brilliant for this – because obviously, we’ve got so much control over our own site, and also due to the fact that everything is server-based. What we can do, when a user plays the game and records a high-score, is load it into one central server – and the fact that that server has all of our sites throughout Europe on it means that we can link them. We can do something like Pac-Man tournament because there’s a lot more visibility – people here can see what’s going on with the scores in France, say, and we can treat it as one big ranking page.

They also plan to do cross-functions with other Namco activity in Europe…and talk about the benefit of having a business in Japan which is a few years ahead.
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