| Slimebeast said: I recognize the name but I never really understood what his role was at Capcom. I would guess hes a PR and marketing spokesperson but everytime he talked it seemed like he really didn't speak 100% for the company. I often got the feeling he was guessing as much as he was knowing. Meanwhile a PR guy like Pete Hines represents Bethesda and Bethesda's products much better. I don't blame him though. Probably the culture at Capcom is very different and a PR spokesperson just isn't natural to them. |
He was senior VP of planning and business development, in CAPCOM USA. So he had some say in english localisation, working with western developers, doing marketing and premotion in the USA etc. Which meant he had very little power as all the actual decisions were made by CAPCOM Japan and he had to fight tooth and nail for every little thing. For example PC ports (dealing with shit like the producer of Street Fighter saying no to a Super Street Fighter IV port after SF IV PC had "exeeded expectations"), bringing the Ace Attorney games over (for some reason the producers in Japan don't really support international releases), getting MvC 3 made etc. He also speant a lot of time interacting with the community, undermined by the fact that CAPCOM Japan would make decisions and change things at the last minute like canceling all Megaman Games after he had started hinting that there would be some Megaman news soon.
From what I understand anyway
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