Tomonobu Itagaki made his name by creating Live or die and design Ninja Gaiden games. After leaving Koei Tecmo, he founded the Valhalla game studios, releasing them Third devil. He is now back with a new company.
Itagaki was interviewed by another senior 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 edited, but he posted the interview in full on his account Facebook page. Itagaki delves deeper into Xbox and it’s worth reading his observations completely. However, it ends with this:
Twenty years have passed since then and I founded 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 ‘Review of Third devil right here.