Japanese web site online game web site Famitsu chatted with RGG Studio’s director Masayoshi Yokoyama whose crew is engaged on the acclaimed Yakuza collection and the newly unveiled Challenge Century and Virtua Fighter video games. Requested about what it was wish to work for SEGA and the way troublesome it was to get mature video games greenlit, he stated they’re greater than keen to take a danger with them totally accepting the potential for failure on new initiatives. He went on to say that the corporate “doesn’t simply maintain pursuing” what he calls “protected bets.”
“One such instance is the brand-new Virtua Fighter title we’re making from scratch, and one other is Challenge Century. I really feel very enthusiastic about these new challenges, however I additionally really feel some nervousness about them.” RGG Studio’s chief goes on to recommend that the studio is benefiting from Sega’s accepting coverage in direction of risk-taking. “I feel side of Sega is that it accepts the potential for failure. It doesn’t simply maintain pursuing the sort of initiatives it is aware of are a protected guess.”
Jokingly, Yokoyama says that this mindset is what led to “one thing like Shenmue” being created within the Dreamcast period. “You can say that’s Sega’s DNA. I imply, they weren’t glad with merely persevering with to make the standard Virtua Fighter video games, and determined to show it into an RPG, leading to Shenmue.” In response to Yokoyama, RGG Studio is now doing one thing just like Shenmue, though solely in spirit.
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