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>all the engineers left after hearing about this and the game was cancelled
Holy shit. It's like if nintendo wanted pre-rendered 3d so they decided to fire everyone at rare and just moved the programmers to smw2.

What was sonic under Naka like?

Supposedly, though not completely verified, Nintendo did something similar to argonauts

From 1 to half of 06's development. Around Adventure he became a producer instead of also being a programmer/designer for the games.

Yuji Naka is such a weird outlier when you compare him to other videogame designers of his generation:
>Suda51 does his thing at Grasshopper
>Sakurai is a well-liked figure in the industry and freelancer with a lot of connections
>Nomura still does what he loves at Squeenix
>Miyamoto, the creator of the character that Sonic was a rival to, is busy directing a movie
>even Hideo Kojima is still working on something for the Xbox presumably

And Naka is relegated to mobage hell for the rest of his days

And it's no one else's fault but his.

Wouldn't surprise me if the reason why nearly all the original Sonic team guys started to leave was in part from not wanting to deal with him. I think Oshima is the most regular collaboration he has and because of Balan Naka acts like a child and asks people not to tag Oshima when someone posts fanart of Balan.
Miyamoto might be stubborn but he's not as ruthless as the horror stories there are about Naka. Also in interviews Naka has a tendency of talking trash about his own coworkers. Being a big reason for Sonic's success doesn't get him a free pass for life.

>because of Balan Naka acts like a child and asks people not to tag Oshima when someone posts fanart of Balan.
What? lmao

Damn I hope Naka chokes on his dinner tonight

Still can't believe how squeenix fucked him over and made everyone think he was responsible for how shit unbalanced wonderworld was.

The jap gaming dev scene seems very cuthroat.

>Naka gets forced out of Balan's development from pretty much everyone involved 6 months from release
>Sues SE
>Recently the case was over so he explained all this
Personally I think they should've just let him stay on. Either the game was unsalvageable from the start in which case why wasn't the game changed after he was forced out or the game is exactly what Naka planned in which case why get rid of him? Anyways
>some fan makes fanart of Balan and tags both Naka and Oshima
>Naka replies asking the fan to not tag Oshima because he was one of the people who forced him out of Balan
It's just so petty. Like I can imagine Naka finding some old Sega office photo and scratching the faces of everyone he hates like some edgy teenage girl.

to be honest, if mobage wasn't as awful as it is naka could've probably done well in making casual mobile titles.
yep, he's done it twice so far, lol:
twitter.com/nakayuji/status/1532171723063238657
twitter.com/nakayuji/status/1528574850255572992
I feel like blaming Naka for Sega Technical Institute's awful management of their workers is a stretch and a half, considering everything else that was going wrong with Xtreme's development internally. He definitely should've been less private with his engine though.