Following the bitter departure of Tomonobu Itagaki from Tecmo, as well as a string of employees following in his wake, it might come as little surprise that Tecmo boss Yoshimi Yasuda has decided to resign as president. Citing "personal reasons," Yasuda now leaves Chairman of the Board Yasuharu Kakihara to assume presidential duties starting September 1.
Yasuda was at the heart of the controversy surrounding Itagaki and Tecmo, after the former accused the latter of promising royalties that he never received. Yasuda argues that the "special incentives" Itagaki mentions were never approved by Tecmo's BoD, but Ninja Gaiden II producer Yoshifuru Okamoto has since provided a tape recording of the former president confirming that Itagaki was owed money approved by the board, after calling the infamous game creator a "money grubber."
With at least "three dozen" Tecmo employees reported to have left the company following Itagaki's exit, there was no way Yasuda would have lasted in power. It looks like the man is jumping before getting pushed, if he wasn't pushed already.
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7:29 AM on 08.20.2008
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I find it hard to care about the company though. Besides Ninja Gaiden and DoA, what other games have they done worth mentioning really? Itagaki seemed like he was his biggest fan. The XBox only stance really pissed me off. Probably about as much as the difficulty of Ninja Gaiden 2 would if I ever get my hands on that damn game.
On a different note... why not bring Ninja Gaiden back to its original form of 2D? Ninja Gaiden:Rearmed or something of the like. That would rock my world of retro dreams. If a few pricks leaving the company resulted in that, all for the better imo.
i'll still buy any Itagaki product in the future...
good stuff.
and what is up with having to clear the cache to stop your x360 from locking up during level 10's intro!?
WTF
i even picked up DoA Extreme 2 from AMazon when they had a great deal on it.
its retarded but hot.
now lets watch as Tecmo vanishes.
Stop playing on acolyte, NG2 is many things, easy is not one of them.
And they need to fix NG2, all those patches broke the game.