GameInformer's Matt Bertz writes, "When we sat down with Tomonobu Itagaki, he shrugged off any worries he has over his current project, talked about what differentiates Eastern and Western publishers, and spoke to the challenges facing the next generation of hardware."
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I was wondering just yesterday what happened to this guy. Dead or Alive 3 and Ninja Gaiden were among my main reasons to get an Xbox back in the day (together with Halo of course). I would be very interested to see what his new project is like.
a game like Ninja Gaiden i could totally enjoy right about now.
i would really like see what their new studio makes.
Good for him, bad for Microsoft if he continues to create bad games. This is his second studio already after he got booted from Tecmo Koei around 9 years ago.
*Back then, I asked him, ‘are you confident that you will beat PS2?’ and he said, ‘Yes. Xbox is called Project Midway and I’ll gain the supremacy with it.’*
That surely didn't work out. PS2 murdered Xbox that deserved defeat with that "midway" undertone. Like It was a war against the Japanese or something. It's videogames. 360 eventually lost to PS3. Itagaki got kicked out from Tecmo and his games have been lowered in quality since his absence with one turning into a full on micro transaction, clothing and hair simulator. Xbox One got hammered by PS4. It's early, but looks like everyone in the world wants a PS5.
Now that we are all caught up, "Honored" in this instance sounds more like, "willing to accept a check after the panning of Devil's Third." Hopefully, he's lost his arrogant personality as well. He's not a rockstar. Even in those shades he keeps wearing.
Interesting he still wants to work with MS after the failure in Japan and overall less consoles sales with X1.
They have good relationship with the company sure, But C'mon, they want that MS money. More than ever now considering he just opened up his new studio.
Itagaki is lucky the interviewer didn't know about the two meetings last week that THQ had with Square Enix and one other high profile publisher as they sought to sell Devil's Third to another publisher. Apparently Itagaki has been jet setting with the money and the project has made little to no advances since last seen. THQ just wants to unload the project now.
"The one thing that's completely different between the Eastern publisher and Western publisher is the budget. I’ve made more than 30 games, and if you put a little bit more [money] into the one I’m making now, Devil’s Third, I could make all of the 30 games I made before. That’s the big difference. The budget you use for the promotion is completely different too. Those are the biggest differences. "
and there, in a nutshell, is what wrong with our western publishers, these people spend more on advertising than they do on assembling a quality game.
look at some of the turds that have come out this gen asking for $65 then bombarding you with dlc starting day one.
and they cry about "development costs"
make better games, let your unique idea and amazing story advertise for you, no one watching dancing with the stars gives a shit about a new first person shooter.
game sites will advertise for you for free if you have a fresh amazing idea,
so sick of all the part 3's and 4's this gen
most of them are crap