Tomonobu Itagaki, the creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden, is a man that likes to speak his mind and do things his way. He's been an evangelist of Xbox right from its introduction but the launch of PlayStation 3 has seen his studio's attention shift its Xbox-exclusive focus slightly.
A revamped version of Ninja Gaiden: Black is already in the works for PS3 and Itagaki talks exclusively to CVG about his future plans for some of our favourite titles.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
He had better be making Ninja Gaiden 2. The original on the xbox was one of my favorite games, and it is way past due for a continuation on the 360!
Yes thats true...but I like how in the beginning the interviewer said he was changing allegiances but during the whole interview he said nothing of the sort... Funny... I dont know why they say Virtual Fighter is the best fighter it just looks like an arcade fighter.
From the interview:
"Finally, how do you see the Japanese game industry five years down the line? Which platform(s) do you think will be dominant in Japan?
Itagaki: Once I decided to start developing games for the Xbox, I realised that there is no point to thinking of things that relate to only one country. We are the transmitters, and the world is the receiver. That way of thinking won't change -- not today, not tomorrow."
Although he does know the answer to that...its PS3 baby, P-S-3 !!!
You think the PS3 will out do the Wii?, the Wii is the DS of console's over there. He does know the answer to that... and that's why he said what he did even though it's the truth but at the same time he's making title's on 360 and PS3; what else is he going to say.
Whoa Whoa Tomonobu is not making games for ps3 his underlings made a port of BLACK thats all.. Get your facts straight GReen