And you don’t have to aim very far to find your base: like Toshihiro Nagoshi of SEGA last October, the producer who is celebrating his 50th birthday today has yielded to the sirens of the Chinese group NetEase Games, which will be able to count for sure on its expertise in project management.
As the interested party explains on Twitter, the departure from Capcom has been effective since March 31 – the closing period of the fiscal year. On the other hand, it will be necessary to wait a little longer to see future career plans take shape. “I will strive to continuously create more enjoyable entertainment experiences for everyone in this new company, in this new era.“, can we nevertheless read on his personal Twitter account on August 12.
If Hiroyuki Kobayashi’s name sounds familiar to you, it’s because you’ve probably followed the news related to some of his flagship productions, from Resident Evil 4 (2005) to Killer7 (2005), via Devil May Cry 4 (2008) and Dragon’s Dogma (2012). It is also Kobayashi who will have supervised the Sengoku Basara franchise, a pretty popular success in Japan, but also Resident Evil 6, a large dented production which coincides with a first slowdown in its attributions on the video game side. Kobayashi will nonetheless follow anime adaptations of Capcom’s IPs at Netflix, from Dragon’s Dogma at Resident Evil Infinite Darkness.