Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and NetEase form new studio Nagoshi Studio's founding team all come from Sega and Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
Marie Dealessandri Features Editor Monday 24th January 2022 Share this article Share
NetEase unveiled a new studio from veteran Yakuza producer and executive director Toshihiro Nagoshi, simply called Nagoshi Studio.
Nagoshi will serve as CEO and representative director of the Tokyo-based developer.
The studio has a founding team of eight other members, all veterans from Sega and Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio.
Nagoshi Studio will focus on "developing high-quality console titles that will be released globally," NetEase said.
Toshihiro Nagoshi left Sega in February 2021, and reports emerged in August that he was joining NetEase.
In October, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio overhauled its management structure following the departure of both Nagoshi and producer Daisuke Sato (who is now at Nagoshi Studio as well).
Series producer Masayoshi Yokoyama took over as director and executive producer.
megazen on January 24th, 2022 at 16:32 UTC »
Does NetEase own this studio? I hope not.
Milk_A_Pikachu on January 24th, 2022 at 15:09 UTC »
Still not super happy about this. But after 10 mainline games (7 kiryu, 2 yagami, 1 ichiban) and a shit ton of spinoffs of varying quality, I am sure RGG have enough institutional knowledge to make some DAMNED good yakuza games.
So this is really just spreading out the talent.
I guess I also suspect this studio would make things closer to Monkey Ball and Binary Domain since China tends to have much stricter morality expectations/laws (as opposed to Japan where you can fuck and murder anything so long as you never even acknowledge the existence of marijuana).
AnasDh on January 24th, 2022 at 14:42 UTC »
Interesting. Let’s see what he does