mini-updated: Keiji Inafune has quit Capcom....

Capcom's legend Keiji Inafune has quit the company as effective end of October. Wow, this is major news. I mean the guy has been credited as being the creator of many awesome games like the Mega Man series, Onimusha series and more recently Dead Rising games. Although I have not played many of his games, but it still makes me a little sad that one of the pioneers of the game industry has left the company which made him the legend and brought amazing games to the world. I guess these are changing times. I still remember a few years back I felt the same when Hironobu Sakaguchi left SquareEnix. Anyways back to Keiji Inafune.


Personally I was not his fan esp not after this scathing remarks that Japanese game industry was finished and how Japanese developers could not compete with the Western developers. In this HD generation I have played many incredible Japanese developed games like Valkyria Chronicles, Final Fantasy XIII, Tales of Vesperia and Bayonetta to name a few. Hence Inafune-san remarks were a kick to the gonads and it made me wonder why the hell he made such a statement. But anyways I guess he had his reasons and him being one of the bigger developers from Japan he must know what we don't or maybe this was bout of reverse psychology!! (conspiracy theories anyone?)

Well good luck to him I guess as he embarks on a new challenge and I am sure many of his fans will wait impatiently for his next game or series. As for me, what will be interesting how he plans to bring the Japanese game industry back to it feet with his new game whenever it comes out! (whatever that means!)