Comments on: Itagaki-less Team Ninja in love with PS3, looking into Wii

By: g00nerz

g00nerz — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:47:55 +0000

Mortiferus said: “Look at the sub-par conversion of NG on PS3.”

What the farking hell are you on about? As an Xbox Ninja Gaiden veteran I can say without question Ninja Gaiden Sigma looks and plays stunnningly well on PS3. The graphics are eyewateringly good and the gameplay hasn’t changed from the already perfect original.

I cannot comment on how it compares to NG2 on the 360, but I think we can definitely say NG2 is coming to PS3 based on these statements. Looking forward to playing it, and based on the 360 reviews, hopefully they will tweak the gameplay for the better before release.

By: Ft

Ft — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:58:16 +0000

lol as Gekidami said, Sigma on PS3 was far from sub-par.
and the only thing Itagaki was ever focused on was berating his staff and other game creators.

As I said though time will tell what this hack is capable of and now that he has none of this franchises, things are gonna get very interesting or sucky for him.

All I’m saying is Tecmo are surely to do better without his pubescent ramblings.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:27:49 +0000

How was Sigma “sub-par”? The first NG is alot better then the second, and Sigma is undoubtedly the best version, add to that the fact that Sigma actually looks alot better then NG2…

By: mortiferus

mortiferus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:16:45 +0000

Ft, Yeah right! Look at the sub-par conversion of NG on PS3. Itagaki is one focused SOB, give him some credit. His notable failure came in the form of a niche game, no shame in that.

Also that M$ fanboy took with him (or at least outta tecmo) a number of high profile members of team ninja.

While Itagaki-san will likely form his own 360 centric studio, Tecmo will sink in mediocrity without his direction.

By: cachucha

cachucha — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:40:09 +0000

I think they will do better without him, they was kind of losing it

By: Shatner

Shatner — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:01:45 +0000

Itagaki – Putting the I in Team

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:36:23 +0000

Lol, fanboys on both sides are arguing how either Itagaki was an immense influence, or a massive hinderance.

I expect he had his own terms of execution, but I don’t think anything will be massively different.

By: Ft

Ft — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:26:02 +0000

Without Itagaki the shell of “Team Ninja” will defintely become stronger!
The only idea he ever had on his own was DOA vollyball!! He’s f-ing useless without his team. But I guess time will tell about that.
So glad that M$ fanboy is outta Team Ninja.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:20:59 +0000

Ah, you’re right PUD, i got them mixed up, my bad.

By: mortiferus

mortiferus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:06:34 +0000

Without Itagaki the shell of “Team Ninja” is poo-poo.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:52:33 +0000

How the hell is Doug Lombardi one of the biggest fanboys?

Gabe Newell maybe, and I can’t justify his hate any other way. Unless he’s not too clever on the technical side.

By: Balbarian

Balbarian — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:44:17 +0000

ditto ecu

I lost all respect for this company when I played Ninja Gaiden 2 and got an achievement for doing a single move…let’s just say I’m not looking forward to the prospective release yet another pale imitation compared to what NG Black gave us on the Xbox.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:58:52 +0000

What do you mean ‘any more’?

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:46:18 +0000

I wouldn’t expect anything good to come from them anymore.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:24:33 +0000

Now that Itagaki is gone Team Ninja has no reason to stay on 360, he was one of the biggest MS fanboys in the industry… Right behind Gabe Newell…

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By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:09:34 +0000

Expect some tip top Ninja action headed towards PS3 soon then – great