Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator behind the Yakuza franchise and former head of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, has revealed that he left SEGA because he didn’t want to become CEO.
Nagoshi-san left SEGA last year to form his own development outfit at NetEase, although prior to that he was promoted to a number of executive roles within SEGA, something which he admitted to 4Playeres that he wasn’t interested in.
I said to the current owner, ‘Guys, I don’t want to be the CEO of Sega here’. I’m a player and a game maker, I want to continue to push my career in that way. Sega can now develop someone [else] into a future CEO. So I think that the interests of both sides – that is, Sega’s and mine – are best protected.
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Speaking in the same interview, Nagoshi revealed that his studio’s new project will not skimp on the violence, and will also be ‘silly like a Tarantino movie.’
[Source – 4Players]