Keiji Inafune resigns from Capcom

Hope he joins another company and make good games.

so mega man has officialy died :( tiss a sad day

good riddance hopefully capcom can restructure itself and go back to making good games instead of awful decisions like the new dmc which is ugly as crap. getting rid of people stuck in their ways can be good for a company to grow. the guy should keep his opinions to himself since their obviously wrong. if games like tales of , xenoblade, persona, phoenix wright, kingdom hearts, pokemon ect are awful then good i'll continue buying these "awful" games along with millions of other people. i'd much rather play them than what he considers a "good" game like lost planet which is the worst series i've ever seen

thats what you get for dissing your own roots!

And I liked Lost Planet 2 very much :P

Make a epic Breath of Fire 6 like 1-4 not dragon quarters which had a kiddie cellshading look, also make a SCARY resident evil 6 and a awesome Devil May Cry 5 NOT a reboot of the series !!! And Capcom will be back on sales ;)

We have enough generic western style games...Japan should stick to making Jgames which we all know and love...look at what "westernizing" DMC gave us...I want the old Dante back!!!!

Reason why Capcom isn't doing so good is because its "westernization" of its IP's IMO.. I used to buy Capcom games, back when they were JRPG's on the PS2.

all i want is a new breath of fire...

"I look around Tokyo Games Show, and everyone's making awful games; Japan is at least five years behind." He also claimed, "I want to make games that travel overseas, but Capcom hasn't taken globalisation seriously." This man speaks the truth! I'm proud Keiji left Capcom. Maybe someday he will open his own gaming studio and develop games which doesn't consist of appealing western audiences, but rather develop quality games for everyone.

Noo! what will become of Megaman!

join your friends from clover at platinum Inafune san

He'll be heard from. Hopefully in a big way. I seriously doubt he's done with the industry.

Thats nice. He will probably start a new company which will build 2 or 3 succesfull new gaming franchises

@dakidicepick no it'll be coming out still.

@Ismaelkf the father of magaman dude.

"Capcom hasn't taken globalisation seriously." wwwhhaat? if anything they are going away from Japanese games and becoming westernized.

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Hopefully they're not planning on letting marketing interfere with development more. That always ends bad with everything.

does this mean we wont see dead rising: case west??? o_O

Hes left this company, not this life. I will keep tabs.

@nocoolnamejim agree but don't you think Capcom did try and failed with Bionic Commando and Dark Void. Also now DMC (Devil May Cry reboot) is at risk.

No doubt Capcom has been in a lot of win/fail situations this gen, some of their games have been as good as always, some of them not much, i hope this shake Capcom and finally wake up making a new RE survival horror and a new DMC ( that crap Ninja Dog is doing doesn't count)

@Elozl No he means that they are just making the same games over and over and over instead of branching out to appeal to a wider audience, not just plain westernizing them that would be dumb

I just want Capcom to return RE to survival horror. As long as they do that they can make as many executive changes as they want.

I think i'm going to miss the Megaman franchise when he leaves.

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederation against him." -Jonathan Swift I hope someone else is smart enough to hire Inafune. He was right in that interview with NY Times, and he realizes what needs to be done.

Inafune is a "big mouth" IMO. He only speaks and does nothing. He says Japan is five years behind and goes on to make games that lamely imitate Western aesthetics in every sense. Why not try to stick to your OWN Japanese style and try to make your games work? You say Japanese games are five years behind? What about Platinum? They've made Bayonetta and Vanquish,two games which are take elements from the top franchises in their respective genre, give it an original twist and stand as some of the most entertaining games of the year. They're Japanese for FYI,Mr.Inafune.

Seems like his genius was not realized by the people he was working with. I wish him the best, the gaming industry needs people like him.

That's a bold statement, but likely true. I applaud Inafune-san for making what I'm sure was a tough decision and I wish him well in the future. The original Mega Man series was a major influence on my childhood. Best of luck Inafune-san.

Keiji Inafune has always been a role model for me, so this is sad. I've had dreams about teaming up with him and making Mega Man X9. (16bit style!). Guess that won't happen. :(

Guy was correct. Sad to see him being pushed out because he has vision and understands that Japan needs to evolve to survive.

Saw this coming really. Inafune is fed up with the Japanese game development philosophy and has been for quite some time. Definitely Capcom's loss.

Guess we shouldn't be surprised, seeing how Capcom has been recently.

As long as the man continues in the game industry, I'll be happy.

WTH? I seriously did not see that coming! I knew Inafune was already disappointed at the TGS, and how Japan is behind on some stuff, but dang, that was so blunt.

Inafune is wrong! us westerns love the Japanese games style, westernizing them doesnt solve the problem!

That was pretty sudden...

I think he should take a trip to America and work with some western game studios.

@Zanoh, It's no need to feel sorry for him. Not saying it to come off like that, but it's not like he got fired or anything he choose (well we can assume it was largely a choice of his) to resign--for whatever reason. I'm sure he has something planned for his life after Capcom.

I wish the man well. The brilliant mind that brought us Mega Man.

I feel sorry for the man. Hope he finds a new line of work in his field.

@magusat999 (and n64nut as well), Spot on. I couldn't agree w/ you more. That pretty much has been Capcom's approach in recent years. And it seems almost ironic they seem more interested in pushing the bad decisions they make and giving them more spotlight (i.e. Lost Planet 2), then the good things that have given them success in the past. Go figure...:roll: I truly hope they can really do it up big and turn it around w/ all this restructuring--hopefully it'll get them back on track to the company they once were.

Sad news, but this seems to be the norm in the gaming industry atm. Well, its probably just the norm everywhere. So many people are losing their jobs nowadays.

The good about Capcom is that they have been creating new IPs - probably more than all of the developers in Japan combined - during the past 3 years or so. They have been very good about striking while the iron is hot, and releasing the sequels and titles people desire (except for Breath of Fire, which I still can't figure why they just let that series die - like throwing money out of the window). The bad thing is they have sometimes show some bad decisions - like putting way too much money on a title that is based on "iffy" concepts. Lost planet 1 wasn't all that, so what made them think Lost Planet 2 was going to be some blockbuster? They have completely ignored the Onimusha series, and they could have pimped out Resident Evil 5 a little more than they did. They have sometimes shown that they must be spread too thin, because a game will hit with the force of an asteroid - and then suddenly... nothing. No updates, no DLC, no support - game just dies. They also do not keep the games they make in the media very long, they sort of just fall away after release date (for example - Street Fighter 4, great game - but when's the last time any fresh news came out about it?). So they tend to lean towards the "churn 'em out and move on" philosophy rather than looking to get a stable gamer audience.

Personally, Doolum, I hope he doesn't take Onimusha w/ him b/c apparently looking at his 'westward' thinking approach to gaming as of late--it seems Onimusha wasn't 'westernized' enough for him to care about it anymore. He's probably one of the reasons the series died, anyway. Considering the clout he had at Capcom I'm sure there were plenty of times he could have pushed for something new w/ Onimusha; he simply just didn't care to. Hopefully he leaves it, and someone else will breathe some life back into (among other forgotten fan favorites). I'll wish him the best, but honestly I can't say I'm not slightly happy to know he's gone. I didn't like how he was so hard-up on pushing the westernizing of Capcom crap. Maybe it seems like Capcom is beginning to realize now that straying too far from a uniqueness that worked for you (namely that Japanese flavor mixed w/ some western influences) doesn't net you the success you always expect.

Capcom's games already cater wholeheartedly to Western gamers; that's why they haven't made anything good since RE remake/Viewtiful Joe. All their games are action games now, and you can tell its not because they believe in action games; its because the bulk of games Westerners play are action games and they just want to fit in. So sad, Capcom used to be my favorite developer.

Inafune has said in past interviews that the industry is going to collapse and that it already has in Japan however too many devs don't see the potential in the expanded market so it's easier to just give up and move on to something else.

agreed @ mav_destroyer

he should join forces with Kamiya-san and Platinum games! together they would rule the gaming world! who wouldn't want a Bayonetta crossover with something similar to any of the games he made?