Itagaki quits and sues Tecmo

[NJ5]

quigontcb said:

NJ5 said:
I'm not so sure about Itagaki ending up at Microsoft... I heard he doesn't speak English at all.

Maybe he could work at a studio in Japan, but Microsoft recently said they're not focusing so much on Japan anymore. If they want to do something in Japan, this could be it though.

You realize that even though he speaks Japanese, his games play perfectly fine in English, right? I don't see why him speaking Enlglish or not would matter. Miyamoto doesn't speak very much English, but that didn't stop him from working with Silicon Knights or Retro.

Anyways, I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up at MS. But I do kind of expect him to start up his own studio. Not sure how profitable it will be, unless he gets a deals between his studio and MS and they bury him in cash.

Maybe he'll put his money where his mouth is and finally make Pikmin 3.

Of course his games are fine in English. As far as I'm concerned it would be great if he worked for Microsoft, just not at some existing Microsoft studio. If he could steal some members of Team Ninja from Tecmo, he could make a great studio.