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Because what happene to this franchise, the developer team and the games and its potential and future is without a doubt one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the gaming industry.

It all started with a man called Itagaki. Team Ninja, under Itagakis leadership, made Ninja Gaiden, which was an instant hit, then they improved into a legendary game called Ninja Gaiden Black. A lot of people consider it the best action game ever made, but Itagaki and Team Ninja didn't agree and knew they could do better. Unfortunately, the publisher, Koei Tecmo were and still are the most cancerous retarded subhumans in the gaming industry. They did everything in their power to sabotage Itagaki, Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive.

Ninja Gaiden II, despite not getting the funds and development time it needed, turned out ot be an amazing game and some consider it better than Ninja Gaiden Black, despite it having rough edges.

Itagaki and some Team Ninja members left Koei Tecmo, Itagaki sued Koei Tecmo for all the false accusations and not paying him and his team their bonus and royalties and he won in court and got a lot of money, which caused Koei Tecmo and some of the Team Ninja members who stayed with Koei Tecmo to be extremely butthurt and hate Itagaki to this very day. They have done everything in their power to erase the legacy of Itagaki, making inferior version of his games and porting them to modern platforms while trying to erase the superior Itagaki versions.

After the drama and split, Team Ninja lost its identity and edge, they just aren't the same anymore.

Itagaki was to Team Ninja, what Miyazaki is to FromSoftware. If Koei Tecmo didn't sabotage him, Team Ninja would have been much more succesfull and in a much better and dominant market position today.