Tomonobu Itagaki made his name Dead or alive and the design of Ninja Gaiden games. After leaving Cow Tecmo, he founded and released Valhalla Game Studios Devil’s third. Now he’s back at a new company.
Itagaki was interviewed for a larger Bloomberg piece on the Xbox in Japan. He was, of course, one of the first Japanese game developers to make games for Xbox and continued to support the Microsoft consoles during his time at Cow Tecmo.
His comments were processed, but he put the interview entirely on his Facebook page. Itagaki goes deep into Xbox and his comments are worth reading in full. However, he ends with this:
Twenty years have passed since then, and I founded my own company, Itagaki Games, which is not Tecmo, nor is Valhalla. I know Microsoft is still aggressive. If they reach out to me, it will be an honor for me.
Read it if you missed it Kotaku ‘‘s review of Devil’s third just here.