Shinji Mikami, founder and CEO of Xbox's Tango Gameworks, is leaving the company

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He's 57 years old and so fucking rich. Pretty likely he's simply retiring to enjoy his Ferrari.

He had a great career:
  • Game designer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (GB), Aladdin (SNES), Goof Troop
  • Writer: Killer 7
  • Director: RE, RE Director's Cut, Dino Crisis, RE4, P.N.03, God Hand, Vanquish, Evil Within
  • Producer: RE2, RE3, Dino Crisis, RE Code Veronica, Steel Battalion, ("Creative producer") Shadows of the Damned
  • Executive producer: Dino Crisis 2, Devil May Cry, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Dino Crisis 3, Viewtiful Joe, Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations, Killer 7, Ace Attorney - Justice for All, Evil Within 2, Hi-Fi Rush
  • Advisor or executive advisor: Onimusha, RE 0, Resident Evil: Gaiden

I found this tweet



Could be nothing though, he probably checks out all Indies in Japan

Yoshida's work is basically to curate and support cool indies who develop for PlayStation. So he often visits indie studios or meet them at industry events around the world.

Not related to acquisitions at all, but sometimes they sign some (often temporal, often console, sometimes limited to marketing) 3rd party exclusives with them.
 
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So we can add this to the studios in turmoil at MS

Tango loses Shinji Mikami
343 gutted
The Coalition gutted
The Initiative disbanded for a third party developer
Playground Games lost its founder and Forza Horizon directors - Fable in dev hell
Ninja Theory in Dev hell with Hellblade 2
Rare - Everwikd in development hell
Mojang - can't even get a ray tracing patch done
Compulsion Games - bet you forgot MS even bought this dev half a decade ago
Undead Labs - State of Decay 3 still in preproduction, has apparently been a hell hole since the founder left in 2019
Perfect dark MIA
Crystal Dynamics having to assist studios.