Capcom's Okamoto Forms New Developer

Posted by simoniker on Friday June 27, 2003 @09:31PM from the get-yr-yoga-flame-on dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out GamePro's article describing former Capcom boss Yoshiki Okamoto's plans to found a new game development company. You may know Okamoto as "..the designer of Time Pilot, Gyruss (both for Konami), 1942, Final Fight, Street Fighter II, and many other classic Capcom arcade and home titles", and more recently as the producer of the Resident Evil series. According to GamePro, "..his departure from his employer of 19 years was seen by analysts as acceptance of responsibility for disappointing sales for the Resident Evil series", which had dipped since Capcom's single-minded decision to opt for GameCube exclusivity in 2001.

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Make or Break by jnguy · 2003-06-28 00:31 · Score: 2, Informative

It seems like one game can really make or break a game developer/producer. It isn't the first time someone decided to quit, start a new company, or just abandon the industry after a failed game. Seamus Blackley who used be Microsoft's technical officer for the xbox was working on this giant game before he came to microsoft. After the game failed because they physics inside the game were horrible, he just left. He left right after Microsoft started making price cuts for the xbox as well, although he says he just wants to make more games.