It remains to be seen if Namco-Bandai will get the US/European publishing rights from Atari, though it will probably make no difference other then the less informed gamers saying the games are developed by Namco-Bandai instead of Atari. Apparently Bandai no longer had a US video game branch in 2002 (they did back 1997 when GT Final Bout was released in the US) but with the recent merger between them and Namco they now currently have a US branch again. The first Budokai series (known as simply DragonBall Z, Z2, and Z3 in Japan) started in 2002, and was developed by Dimps (a small development studio currently owned by SEGA-Sammy, and formed by ex-Sammy/ex-Capcom employees) while published by Bandai in Japan and Atari in the US/Europe. For those who don't know it, there are currently two different Budokai series in the US.
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