Tomonobu Itagaki has made its name Dead or alive and designing Ninja Gaiden games. After leaving Koei Tecmo, he founded and released Valhalla Game Studios Devil’s Third. Now he is back with a new company.
Itagaki was interviewed for a larger one Bloomberg piece on the Xbox in Japan. He was, of course, one of the first Japanese game developers to create games for Xbox and continued to support Microsoft consoles during his time at Koei Tecmo.
His comments were reduced to the bottom, but he put the interview entirely on his Facebook page. Itagaki takes a closer look at Xbox and his comments are worth a read. However, he ends with this:
Twenty years have passed since then and I have started my own company, Itagaki Games, which is not Tecmo or Valhalla. I know Microsoft is still aggressive. If they contact me, it is an honor for me.
If you missed it, read Kotaku ‘s assessment of Devil’s Third here.