Yakuza Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi’s New NetEase Studio Revealed

Toshihiro Nagoshi was the Yakuza founder. He announced that last October he would be leaving Sega. His new NetEase Studio has now been unveiled. 

User of Twitter Nibellion (perhaps more well-known as Nibel) posted a link to the Nagoshi Studio website, where they learned that Nagoshi is its CEO. It’s also where Nibel discovered that eight of the founding Nagoshi Studio members previously worked at Sega or Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. Before joining Sega, Nagoshi used to work here. 

In an interview with Japanese gaming magazine, Nibel mentions this. Famitsu, Nagoshi explains that he left Sega because he didn’t want to do the same thing repeatedly. There are less creative restrictions at NetEase. He can also be more involved in actual game development. 

In that same interview, Nagoshi said the studio hopes to announce its first game as soon as possible and that said game will have a “large” scale. The CEO also says the studio is focused on quality and appealing to both core fans and a larger audience while doing things he and the other developers there couldn’t do before (perhaps at RGG or Sega).

While waiting to learn more about Nagoshi Studio’s first title, read about how RGG has confirmed that a sequel to Yakuza: Like A Dragon is in the works, and then check out this interview with Nagoshi, where he reveals why Sega should have fired him in the 1990s. Find out why. Game InformerThe editor thinks you should continue to play Yakuza even after the movie. 

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