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Tecmo President: New Team NINJA Targeting The West

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Yasuda, the president of Tecmo, announced to Bloomberg Japan today that Team NINJA with it's new leader has been appointed to work on a big budget title game with a new genre, and is expected to be completed next year.

With the absence of Itagaki, the team has taken on a new motto for game development, "New Title, New Genre, New Location, New Leader".

Team NINJA's new game will not follow Tecmo's past game genres like Fighting, Action, or Horror Adventure; instead they will focus on a brand new genre and focus on targeting the western audience, though details can not be disclosed at this time...

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A more detailed interview can be viewed by clicking on the Story Link, translated via Google Translate.

The Credits Link is to the original Bloomberg article in Japanese.
Updates:
Since the names were not correctly translated by Google Translate, the new leaders (there are two of them) of Team NINJA are Jin Hasegawa (Project Manager/CG Team Leader in various Fatal Frame projects) and Yousuke Hayashi (Director for Ninja Gaiden Sigma).
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ash_divine - 516 days 6 hours ago
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well... there goes a decent team.

R.I.P Old Team ninja
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SaiyanFury - 515 days 10 hours ago
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I wouldn't necessarily say that. True the new team might not have the same magic, but Yousuke Hayashi knows what he's doing. He was the director of Ninja Gaiden Sigma on PS3 and is very open to developing on platforms outside the 360. In his own words regarding the early days of the PS3, "it doesn't matter how small of an install base there is. There is STILL an install base." I respect this guy and give him the single credit for bringing Ninja Gaiden to another console and delivering so well. Maybe people disagree with me, but Ninja Gaiden Sigma remains one of my all time fave PS3 games.
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munish23 - 516 days 4 hours ago
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I'm just wondering what Itagaki must be up to.
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jlemdon - 516 days 3 hours ago
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3 - damn
no more rygar,DOA or NG.:(
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Asurastrike - 516 days 3 hours ago
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Dead or Alive first person shooter?
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Mc Fadge - 515 days 22 hours ago
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4.1 - That'd be horrible
When you run, your vision would be taken up by bouncing breasts
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Fanboi - 515 days 21 hours ago
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Whats so horrible about that?
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matchgrade - 516 days 2 hours ago
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Haven't they always been targeting the West with their gratuitous gore (Ninja Gaiden) and bouncy breasts (DOA)?
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scissor_runner - 516 days 1 hour ago
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6 - It better not be a damn FPS!
I hope it is a acrade like game for consoles! I wonder if they are going to change the name or will we get some thing fighting related? I wonder who the new leader is?
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Dir_en_grey - 515 days 14 hours ago
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6.1 - The new leaders...
(there are two of them) of Team NINJA are Jin Hasegawa (Project Manager/CG Team Leader in various Fatal Frame projects) and Yousuke Hayashi (Director for Ninja Gaiden Sigma).
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avacadosnorkel - 515 days 23 hours ago
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8 - exclusive to 360
Sony won't give any money to 3rd parties
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DJ - 515 days 23 hours ago
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9 - It'll be interesting to see what the new team puts out.
If it's a good game, I'll laugh so hard at Itagaki (though he did fight for workers' rights; that actually was admirable).
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KillaManiac - 515 days 23 hours ago
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Lol here comes ANOTHER FPS!

Western market...of course we know its a FPS!
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Kigmal - 515 days 23 hours ago
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RIP Team NINJA
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Deee187 - 515 days 23 hours ago
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A FPS, You shoot semen at girls with giant tits before they suffocate you.
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LeShin - 515 days 17 hours ago
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lol
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blindfromthesun - 515 days 6 hours ago
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12.2 - funny concept
Bad images in head and AO rating.
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Alexander Roy - 515 days 22 hours ago
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RIP Kasumi, Hitomi and all the other bouncy breasts... you will be missed.
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Yi-Long - 515 days 20 hours ago
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14 - We like these games for what they already are...
... every time a foreign company SAYS they now want to 'target a western audience', they basically neglect the fact that that western audience already digs their old products.

Think Jackie Chan, who decided to only start making crappy movies 'cause apparently thats what the western viewers wanna see...'

Team Ninja should just keep making games in the style that suits THEM, make a great quality product, and now divide the gaming community between 'east' and 'west', but just make a top-quality game on it's own merits, and if they manage that, the game will sell, no matter what region.

.... although I doubt Team Ninja is still Team Ninja without Igataki...

Ow... and no more volleyball games please. I'm sure they sell well to horney 'western' schoolkids who just discovered the exciting joys of masturbation, but still...
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LeShin - 515 days 17 hours ago
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New genre? Targeting the West?

lol as most people here have said: Welcome ANOTHER bloody FPS!

....because there isn't many of these games out there already are there?.....
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Strife Lives - 515 days 17 hours ago
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16 - TEAM NINJA YOU SUCK ! ! !
CUZ UR NOT GIVING ME DOA 5 ! ! ! ! im really not happy about this.I hope Tecmo gets OWNED and some other company takes the DOA franchise over.I always look at Tekken ,Virtua Fighter and DOA as rivals. And they drive each other to be better. tekken with combo based fighting.VF with technical fighting and DOA for pure speed. This sucks!
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