Imagine hoping for one of the best game creators ever to retire cause he doesn't want to work on your low sales shooter box
Shinji Mikami, founder and CEO of Xbox's Tango Gameworks, is leaving the company
- Thread starter SLB1904
- Start date
It is obvious he is not retiring… he is not that old.I didn't notice that he posted this 4 months ago, maybe he isn't retiring but going back to Capcom or Platinum:
In the leaked capcom roadmap, there were mentions to Final Fight and Power Stone remakes under development, plus a couple of games that could also be remakes: "Captain Commando" and "new Onimusha title".
Considering that Mikami directed and produced Dino Crisis, it would make sense he may want to remake it, or considering that Kamiya directed DMC and Mikami executive produced it, we could think they may be interested on remaking one of them. But DMC and DC aren't mentioned in the roadmap.
In the roadmap (considering covid delays) Onimusha woud be released pretty soon, while Final Fight, Captain Commando and Power Stone would be still far from release. There's also projects codenamed "Resident Evil Hunk" or "Resident Evil Apocalypse", which could be remakes or simply codenames for DLCs. As "Resident Evil Outrage" (mistranslated as Outbreak by the leaker), which was the codename of the released RE Village Gold/DLC and not a brand new game (Dusk Gollem was wrong again with that).
Yep.
But let's not let the usuals continue to make themselves look like asses, again.
Did you read your own link?
Yes, did you ?
He's been talking about it since 2020.
If he thinks he has in him to establish another studio and get another team together, good on him.
But if he decides to hang his hat here, it will not be surprising based on comments he's made over the past few years.
No. He is joking since 50.
He has no intention to stop.
Seems like even has already a project to work.
Don’t be so ageist!
The guy is over 50, rich, and has burned bridges with just about anyone who might hire him.
Retirement is probably his best option.
I have not done any merger and acquisition, but I think that your point makes sense.
What I think they should do, at least until things settle, is to keep a mostly hands off approach. They make only guidelines about where the games are published, add official Xbox studios logo on marketing material and at the start of the game. Maybe a year or two later, after they had people inside for a while, get some more direct involvement in the projects, after all they bought a company for whatever it did well, logically you don't want to disrupt that. So maybe broad orientation on which games get made, but not right away.
Well, knowing that 4 months ago he mentioned on his personal FB that they submitted the trailer of an unannounced Tango + Platinum + Capcom remake, I now think that instead of retiring he may go back to Platinum or Capcom, for at least that project (in case his part wasn't already completed).
Yeah ppl keep trying to push this retiring nonsense when their is nothing about any of this that suggest he’s retiring.
Because they can’t accept he don’t want to be more at Studio owned by MS… so “retiring” is a common narrative MS always do with these that left.
There is zero reason to believe he’s retiring. I see xbot cope lives in fiction.