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ROFLLLL...

Ohh...maaaan. That's...wow. I was all for him for leaving the company for undue payments, but when they said there was some discrepency about said payments and now that he was actually fired, I can't help but giggle. He brought it on himself.

Tecmo:"you're fired" Itagaki:"you cant fire me i quit"

...And we all know why he was fired!

Arrogance!

That's why you shouldn't believe everything you hear Itagaki fanatics. He continuously embarrassed the company and I can't blame Tecmo for firing him.

But I still want to see a Ninja Gaiden 3.

I really want this whole thing to blow over so we can find out whats gonna happen to the DOA and NG franchises. I have heard rumors that Tecmo already plans to make NG3 but they are waiting to say anything about it until this all dies down. Further more Itagaki mentioned that DOA5 would be unveiled soon before this all went down and now we don't know if DOA5 will ever happen.

i bought ninja gaiden 2, but i thought it was no way near as good as the first 1. so i traded it in for MGS4.

I lol'd

dont make flops and this wont happen

Microsoft probably already has his new studio all set up for him.

Itagaki is the man, im not sure many on this site don't like him (sony fans?). Regardless, its obvious tecmo is in the wrong here, especially when pretty much all of team ninja has left as well.

That happens when you act like an asshole

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

I commented that story back then and suspected he was fired.

edit: ROFL @ the disagrees

Whatever you think of him, its clear Tecmo is in the wrong here.

Who cares if he got fired or left, the result is still the same, it's his private life. Press like this is just for people who like to b*tch about him or Tecmo.

I guess that's what happens when you bash the PS3 and don't bring Ninja Gaiden II over to the platform. It's ok we'll be waiting for Ninja Gaiden II Sigma with added chapters, 1080p, 60 fps.

He is the Japanese version of John Romero

No one should ever be denied payment for work done, if they tried that here in the US they whould end up paying a hell of a lot more than what they would need to pay here.

Ever notice it's PS3 fanboys that hate on him, couldn't be because the PS3 has no Ninja Gaiden love after Sigma could it? or because he said bad things about the only console you could afford?

Tekken is complete garbage, always has been and always will! I really don't want that crap on my 360.

Now people will stop name calling Itagaki and start posting news stories about me on N4G. Where the Sony Faithful will throw baseless accusations of my character around as though it were fact.

that being said, this dude always walked around like he's the greatest. Although his games were good, none of them have ever been great; his games have sold well, but didn't sell incredibly great. I'm sure theres more that went on behind close doors. I doubt the reason Tecmo fired him was just to avoid paying him incentives. They wouldn't care to pay him incentives if they actually wanted him; but something happened that angered Tecmo, and they found the perfect time to get rid of him; right before they had to pay extra.

No sh't he was fired.. he sucks ass, ninja gaiden 2 was one of the most flawed directly anoying games i have ever played, exept from the combat (which was amazing) it was completely broken, everything from the platforming and grafix to the story was lame.

And i actually happen to enjoy hardcore games normally.. Devil May Cry 4 is clearly superior tbh

Wow how some of you have too much time on your hands. How do you guys come to a website that requires reading but you don't actually read the article? Just the headline and then post a BS comment.

Capcom has reveled that they are working on a new IP; Itagaki VS. Tecmo. To honor Itagaki's dislike for PS3, Capcom has stated that the game will only be availible on the Xbox360 and Nintendo DS.

Guess my PS3 wont be seeing this one_ EnD SaRc XD

Itagaki has every reason to be fired. Team Ninja's development and creative vision was hampered by Itagaki's incoherent and baffling loyalty to Xbox 360. Once proven, Ninja Gaiden Sigma proved to be the vastly superior game than his own sequel.

Combine this with the fact that Itagaki is a rapist who preys on women in his company who may resemble Kasumi or any of the females in Dead or Alive. Tecmo undoubtedly made the correct corporate decision by getting rid of this disrespectful piece of trash.

Dark Sniper's glad Sony has integrity and prestige. He'll never find a job working for a company like SCE.

$niper

Him leaving killed the DOA franchise! And now,Im left with VF and Tekken.I love all of em,being a fan of most genre types.I think that loser was just selfish and in the end,didnt give a damn about the fans.guess he was a selfish person and thats why he looked so ugly. :p .even the rats thats scratched his face and pluckd his eyes out had reason to hate him.

Itagaki was a douche no doubt about it. He had become a liability to Tecmo with his outlandish attitude towards the game industry. That is why he was fired. The reason why he was fired before his incentives were paid was because of how he tried to bring the whole case to the public. It should have been handled behind closed doors with a lawyer.

This guy was accused of sexual harassment. He constantly got drunk at events and then bashed other developers regardless of what platform they made games for (he craped on Virtua Fighter too). He even trashed his own development team for wanting to bring Ninja Gaiden to the PS3. What was moral like on his team? Ask those guys and you will be surprised about how screwed up this guy was.
What kills me is you guys are basing your praise for him over a game and not is ethics and morals. He was not fired for making bad games.
He was fired for being a douchebag.

It had nothing to do with PS3 or Xbox360.

Most of you obviously did not even try to read the article. PS3 fanboys is becoming synomonous for DITTO HEAD. You people are clueless but so D@MN loud.

you people are talking sh1t of Itagaki just because he's a MS fanboy cuz if he were a sony fanboy like Hideo all of you would be praising him.

so please, cut the crap out!

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... but after reading the article, sounds like the pooch was screwed again. I really hate saying this, but I hope he gets what he's owed... as well as those other guys.

... however, he's STILL an @ss.

if he made it on the ps3 he wouldnt of got fired ps3 wins again

Let's not forget.
Ninja Gaiden was/is on

NES
Xbox
PS3
DS
360

F***** fanboys slay me ....

Who,honestly believes new Team Ninja can make games that we would buy? Ninja gaiden,DOA were their trump cards. The creator left,so they quit making it? Did Final Fantasy stop ? Its true,my opinion is that final fantasy 10-2 and 12 wasnt as great as 7,8,10 in my opinion.but the series lives on.these losers are going to make a FPS and then,I hope they go bankrupt.get Owned. sell the I.Ps and then we get new sequals.Namco Bandai,pick up DOA! or dammit,Msft, check your pockets,feel any loose change in there? good! Buy this stupid company.

LOL... This guy again???

Ok, people are getting mad for the wrong reasons, both sides.

Itagaki IS indeed an @ss. Ninja Gaiden was for PS2, Itagaki saw competition and just get out (crapping his pants in the way). The guy bash on DMC and Tekken and everything on the same genres of his games, but I still have to see Ninja Gaiden and Dead Or Alive being better rated than DMC and Tekken, or selling more, or whatever... And you don't see nobody pushing him, there was no need for Itagaki to bash anyone while he make good (not great) games (and that comes from a NG, and general hack n' slash action games, fan).

But also people getting it wrong on the other flank. Don't matter if he is or isn't an @ss. If (and I said IF because we don't really know more that what slip to the internet) what the guy (and many others on Tecmo, don't forget he didn't leave alone) said was true, it's not funny people. Tecmo must pay what is right.

Now, on the matter, my opinion...

I can see Tecmo preparing to fire him before he ever said he was leaving. Face it, his games aren't mind blowing (NG2 could be the break point, not that good rated, not that much sold, specially compared to the games he bashed), actually, counting the much fud this guy say, his games pretty much sucked. And people that just invested on him and his games would not like to have him around anymore (they already have the IP anyway, they don't really need Itagaki, maybe they think they could just do better without him)

And for that matter, being Itagaki like he looks to be (an @ss), he would just tell the world when he was leaving, even knowing he would get fired before. That way he could after claim that they have fired him sooner than he wants to leave to make him shut up or look bad or whatever... He never really claimed any money before, even having a big mouth to the internet all the time... Maybe he knew he was about to get fired so was the time to ask 'where is my money?', maybe he really wants to quit but not with empty pockets (if you know what I mean).

Also, people are getting wrong the Fired x Quit. Not really a question of fire him so don't have to pay him, since the guy said 'I quit'. There is no money on this QUIT x FIRE problem since firing him would just mean that they would have to give him much money (unless they have a good reason to fire). That would be just plain dumb two weeks before he quits by his own with nothing in the pockets.

The money argued by Itagaki fit better in 'late payments'. For that matter if he was fired or if he quits make little to none difference.

And there lies the problem for Tecmo. It's not Itagaki alone claiming they did't pay him what was agreed or when was said to, it's amny of Tecmo's guys quitting arguing the same thing, 'Tecmo have late payments to give to us'.

And if Tecmo really have a contract saying they have to pay things that they don't have yet payed, being them already thinking about fire Itagaki (and his whole team for that matter) or not, being this guy the crapspeaker he is, don't matter now, they should pay what they said they would regardless.

That is why you should never late payments. Anyone that runs a business will tell you that, it's not just getting problems with the law, if you get stucked with people you didn't payed, this people you can't fire, promote, relocate or whatever, you really lost the controle of your business, since this people can at any moment go on and sue you or blackmail you... You just got f*cked up.

Oh man, the "ads by google" that popped up just below this article was...

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lol

I just found that hilarious given the charges that were filed against him. But also, doesn't that make it sound like you call them and they go out and commit sex crimes for you?

Yeah, random... but this is the open zone, aye.

He looks like a stoner XD

I hope he develops Ninja gaiden sidescrolling style in his basement =D..

He deserves what he's owed. That much is true. But why is he being defended so adamantly? He's an arrogant tool who belongs in the same tier of douchbaggery as Jaffe and Tony Stark. He was a bad face for the company. While I'm sure he was fired to avoid paying him a scheduled bonus, which, by the way, happens all the time, it probably also had something to do with the board of directors (on which he had a seat) getting tired of his antics.

@tacki lmfao bubbles