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| crissindahouse said: Just too many Gaijin at MS and not the company philosophy the leader of a Japanese studio is used to work in aka everyone below you has to kiss your feet and thank you for that. But I didn't say that, just forget what you just read even if there might be some truth to it speaking about Japan. |
This definitely ain't Mikami 
Like I said, dude was banging on about how Tango was all about nurturing new talent, Tango was never meant to be about Mikami, he doesn't want to make it all about Mikami, he set out and achieved an admirable goal and now Tango thanks to Mikami's talent doesn't need him anymore, they are capable of leading themselves to greatness and have multiple directors and teams now wanting to make stuff for themselves.
Rumours are that he wanted to leave for years but was afraid that Zenimax would shutdown Tango without him, Xbox gave him the confidence that wouldn't happen, Zenimax independently was a company who suffered multiple flops recently and Tango was never a big seller, the entire reason Zenimax acquired Tango was for Mikami so if they lost him and suffered further flops, Tango would make the most sense to shutdown, so it makes sense he would have that fear.
We're really reading into it far too much to suggest that Mikami is "upset" with Xbox (or Zenimax) or doesn't want to work with Xbox (when he been working with Bethesda for years) when he literally been telling us for years what Tango is about, Lol. Mikami told us! Lol.
Mikami a GOAT. He had an admirable goal and achieved it. Tango under the leadership of John released their best game ever, without Mikami. I hear Ghostwire is pretty good too and it has done pretty good with players as well. That's two good Directors at minimum that Mikami helped nurture and whoever has taken over as Head of Tango as well was likely nurtured by Mikami.
Really the only thing that makes sense is if Xbox created a new studio entirely for Mikami but the question remains about his retirement, he always said he only has one big game left in him. I still think he either returns to Capcom, joins M-Two or joins Kamiya, all his old buddies, for one final game from him. I don't see why people think Sony when barely any Japanese notable name has been joining Sony lately, especially after they guttered Sony Japan, in fact they've all been joining NetEase.
