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Yu Suzuki leaving current SEGA role, staying on with the company, talks future game directors
“In 2008 I established YS NET, my current company. I’ll be leaving my current job at Sega this September, and after that point I’ll remain on as an advisor. So I’ve formally been with both companies from 2008 until September 2011. With the new company, I’ve been doing pretty much what I personally want to do myself.” - Yu Suzuki
Mr. Suzuki also discusses the future of game directors, which he believes will rise up from smaller game companies.
“Lately, the big makers pretty much make nothing but big franchise titles, right? Small companies can’t compete with that sort of thing; projects with 4 billion [$50 million] or 6 billion yen [$75 million] budgets competing against those with 300 million yen [$3.72 million] budgets. However, if you make nothing but these big titles, the game industry’s going to falter because of it. So I think it’s great that small developers can get into these new platforms and compete on there on a more level basis. It takes up less of their money, and if they get a hit, I think that’ll lead to the directors getting attention from the media.”