Tomonobu Itagaki made his name by creating Dead or alive and designing Ninja Gaiden games. After leaving Koei Tecmo, he founded Valhalla Game Studios, launching The third devil. Now he’s back with a new company.
Itagaki was interviewed for a larger number Bloomberg play on Xbox in Japan. He was, of course, one of the first Japanese game developers to make games for Xbox and continued to support Microsoft consoles during his time at Koei Tecmo.
His comments were edited, but he posted the entire interview on his own Facebook page. Itagaki delves deeper into the Xbox and his remarks are worth reading in their entirety. However, he concludes with this:
Twenty years have passed since then and I set up my own company, Itagaki Games, which is neither Tecmo nor Valhalla. I know Microsoft is still aggressive. If they come to me, it will be an honor for me.
In case you missed it, read on Kotaku ‘his review The third devil right here.