Itagaki is pretty much done, isn't he? Even if you want to blame the Devil's Third on the THQ fiasco rather than him and/or Nintendo, since leaving Team Ninja he's done nothing but mobile garbage and even tried to hop on the NFT scam a few years ago.

Is it his reputation of being an arrogant dickhead that prevents publishers from wanting to deal with him or what? He was trying to publicly cozy up to Microsoft a few years ago but Phil Spencer and Matt Booty clearly didn't think it was worth taking the bait.

He's just getting started

>>716109517
Oh fuck, he's going to die tomorrow isn't he?

>>716109092 (OP)
Even if he makes 10 more nft games in a row he's still a legend for DOA and NG

>>716109092 (OP)
why did he like xbox so much?

>>716109649
iirc a combination of him being pissed off that Sony didn't get behind DoA like they did Tekken and then later he felt like Sony screwed him on the PS2 version of DoA2.

>>716109805
>he felt like
He didn't "feel" shit. They literally scammed him into handing over a pre-alpha build of DoA2 which they published without his permission. They completely fucked him and his reputation over and it gave him depression to the point of alcoholism.

Had WB been smart. They would have hired him as director at Monolith for the Wonder Woman game.

>>716109805
I remember reading he only wanted to make games for the most powerful hardware, but I guess that could have been him coping about something else.

>>716110268
Didn't he blame one of his superiors at Tecmo for doing that?

>>716110654
Yeah https://www.wired.com/2012/02/itagaki-dice-2012/

No idea why the other anon mentioned Sony

>>716109805
>>716110268
>>716110654
>>716110894
I swear years ago he said that Ken Kutaragi lied to developers about the PS2's specs

>>716110360
Fuck that, they need to die for firing most of Monoliths staff after they acquired the company and most Blood/NOLF/FEAR devs with them.

Ubisoft needs to die for killing off Massive and World in Conflict alone.

>>716110360
what?

>>716111281
Ninja Gaiden style Wonder Woman game would be awesome. Instead of spending years with no vision and progress, they should have turned it into action game.

>>716109092 (OP)
I think he’s probably blacklisted in the industry

>>716109649
They gave him marketing support for DOA. He felt he couldn’t compete with Tekken as PlayStation gave marketing to Tekken

>>716112326
If anything that's probably Inafune. Itagaki getting cancelled 20 years ago probably doesn't help tho.

>>716109649
because he knew the truth...snoy is gay

>>716109092 (OP)
>Itagaki is pretty much done, isn't he?
He's been done stop fucking talking about him like he's going to magically be the savior of action games out of nowhere when he's proven himself to be a hack.

I can't believe itagakis "le cool guy" persona actually worked on people that almost 20 years later retards are still talking him like he's some master genius game designer.

>>716110894
https://archive.ph/jrU0t

Archive faggot

>>716112238
You're confusing your Monoliths.

>>716115997
I have no bone to pick with Wired. I'd archive a Kotaku or ANN article thoughbeit.

I love Tom 'Tagaki.

>>716115863
Well he did design two of the best action games of all time and when he left TN made NG3RE, which is an abomination.

>>716117434
is it 2012 or something? holy fucking reddit parrot