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Yuji Naka REALLY wanted to work at Nintendo
- Thread starter Hayama Akito
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Mario would've probably died off as an IP, and we wouldn't have SM64.
Dude has a horrible record as a producer.
But anyway...What is he going to do for SE? A senior programmer?
Can't really see any IP that would fit his style for him to direct/produce.
Dude has a horrible record as a producer.
But anyway...What is he going to do for SE? A senior programmer?
Can't really see any IP that would fit his style for him to direct/produce.
I always felt like he was a better fit for Namco and it seemed like he would have preferred that over Nintendo any day of the week, so this was a bit weird to hear.
In a way I think if he stopped working with SEGA fullstop in the mid 90s I think the Sonic franchise would have had an overall better trajectory and better people would have been put to direct and manage the franchise going forward. Naka pretty famously scared off loads of people from not just Sonic Team but SEGA as a whole.
In a way I think if he stopped working with SEGA fullstop in the mid 90s I think the Sonic franchise would have had an overall better trajectory and better people would have been put to direct and manage the franchise going forward. Naka pretty famously scared off loads of people from not just Sonic Team but SEGA as a whole.
Eh. How instrumental was Naka in setting up Iizuka as director? I never got the impression he really knew what he was doing.
Extremely important. They are great friends to this day and it is pretty well known he pushed people like Yasuhara and Ohshima away.
He was producer on Samba De Amigo which Miyamoto loved back in the day. I think his resume was fine. Good joke though.
I'm not saying that programmers couldn't or shouldn't become producers. I'm saying Naka specifically is bad at that role. He wasn't good at driving the direction of Sonic and the series floundered after he drove away people like Yasuhara and put Iizuka in charge.
Very well said. Naka should have just stayed in the technical role, he is not the best Producer or Team leader. Yoji Ishii should have lead the Sonic Team back inthe day.
He drove the direction of Sonic since Sonic 1, not since Yasuhara left. He made great and bad decisions I would say.
Ultimately I don't know who to blame. I think all three of the main guys behind Sonic floundered in their later careers
I believe Yoji Ishii is now the head of Arzest alongside Naoto Ohshima and Yutaka Sugano.
Not really heart-breaking, although I liked the classic Sonic games and I absolutely loved Nights into Dreams it became evident to me a few years later that those types of games tend to fare better on Nintendo consoles and Nintendo's hardware is where Sonic's current games tend to sell best out of the current platforms, at least that's the impression I have, so much so that Sega often makes exclusive Sonic games for their platforms.
He is and was pretty much a manager for Sega games for the Saturn era (Panzer Dragoon, Sakura Wars, Sonic Team stuff).
Artoon was initially funded by Hayao Nakayama, so more or less with Sega money. Same with Prope.
Yeah he is and he should have been the one to Lead the Sonic Team and well all of SEGA consumer Teams. He was a safe pair of hands and an excellent producer. I think Naka-san was a Genius when it came to programming, but you can't have a person with his temperament leading a Team imo.