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Monster Hunter’s series producer is being put in charge of all Capcom’s development divisions | VGC

Ryozo Tsujimoto will be promoted to Chief Product Officer next month…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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In a statement made by the company announcing various new personnel changes, it was stated that Executive Corporate Officer Yoichi Egawa will be resigning as of April 1, and stepping down from his role as Chief Product Officer in charge of Capcom‘s development divisions and pachinko business.

Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto, who currently serves as ‘deputy in charge of development divisions’, will be promoted to the Chief Product Officer role and become the main person in charge of Capcom’s development divisions as of April 1.

He will not, however, have to lead the company’s pachinko business too, with those duties moving to Capcom’s current COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto.

Ryozo Tsujimoto has been at Capcom since 1996, where he joined directly after graduating from university. While he was originally given planning roles on arcade games such as Battle Circuit and Tech Romancer, it would be his work on Monster Hunter that would come to define his career.

Initially working as a planner on the first Monster Hunter on PS2 and its PSP port Monster Hunter Freedom, Tsujimoto went on to produce Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.

He has since held senior producer or executive producer roles on every major Monster Hunter game, including as senior producer of Monster Hunter World, Monster Hunter Rise and the recently released Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Hunter World would go on to sell more than 25 million units worldwide, making it Capcom’s best-selling game of all time. Its successor, Monster Hunter Rise, has sold more than 15 million.

The latest game in the series, Monster Hunter Wilds, looks set to enjoy equally impressive sales numbers, hitting a peak of nearly 1.4 million concurrent players on Steam during its first weekend.

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[Jinzo Prime]

Monster Hunter’s series producer is being put in charge of all Capcom’s development divisions | VGC

Ryozo Tsujimoto will be promoted to Chief Product Officer next month…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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In a statement made by the company announcing various new personnel changes, it was stated that Executive Corporate Officer Yoichi Egawa will be resigning as of April 1, and stepping down from his role as Chief Product Officer in charge of Capcom‘s development divisions and pachinko business.

Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto, who currently serves as ‘deputy in charge of development divisions’, will be promoted to the Chief Product Officer role and become the main person in charge of Capcom’s development divisions as of April 1.

He will not, however, have to lead the company’s pachinko business too, with those duties moving to Capcom’s current COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto.

Ryozo Tsujimoto has been at Capcom since 1996, where he joined directly after graduating from university. While he was originally given planning roles on arcade games such as Battle Circuit and Tech Romancer, it would be his work on Monster Hunter that would come to define his career.

Initially working as a planner on the first Monster Hunter on PS2 and its PSP port Monster Hunter Freedom, Tsujimoto went on to produce Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter Freedom 2 and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.

He has since held senior producer or executive producer roles on every major Monster Hunter game, including as senior producer of Monster Hunter World, Monster Hunter Rise and the recently released Monster Hunter Wilds.

Monster Hunter World would go on to sell more than 25 million units worldwide, making it Capcom’s best-selling game of all time. Its successor, Monster Hunter Rise, has sold more than 15 million.

The latest game in the series, Monster Hunter Wilds, looks set to enjoy equally impressive sales numbers, hitting a peak of nearly 1.4 million concurrent players on Steam during its first weekend.

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He's also the son of the COO and his family is the largest shareholder.

 

[Loomy]

He will not, however, have to lead the company’s pachinko business too, with those duties moving to Capcom’s current COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto.

Thank fuck lmao.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Release now, patch later. Companies learn this works pretty well, so why not promote the people who start with this. Is good for business.

 

[nial]

Article forgot to mention that he's already the head of the CGD2 studio.
Anyway, expecting Capcom to still lean into a boring, sparse output as it's been doing in the past 3-4 years.

 

[Fake]

Don't come later and complain of the state of the launch games. This is what people voted for.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Join together because art continues

 

[Idleyes]

Ryozo Tsujimoto

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Deserved...nepo babies ftw.

 

[yogaflame]

Deserving

 

[j0hnnix]

 

[Juza]

This is the man who said,"Monster Hunter Wild is polished and couldn't get any more polished"

Guess the golden age of Capcom might be… fading?

 

[Arachnid]

Cool

But don't fuck with RE. RE4make and 2make were peak, and the last two mainline entries were great too. Those devs are in a good groove and don't need any outside interference.

 

[Danjin44]

This is the man who said,"Monster Hunter Wild is polished and couldn't get any more polished"

Guess the golden age of Capcom might be… fading?

Over what? Graphics? Let me remind you when Monster Hunter World came out on PS4 that game also had tons of performance issue but that didn’t stop people from enjoying the game.

Again we also gone through same shit when RE4Remake and most GAF said it worse remake just because of graphics.

 

[ReBurn]

He can bring that Monster Hunter PC magic to all their games now!

 

[Yoda]

Guess the next resident evil might be hard to run on PC????

 

[Juza]

Over what? Graphics? Let me remind you when Monster Hunter World came out on PS4 that game also had tons of performance issue but that didn’t stop people from enjoying the game.

Again we also gone through same shit when RE4Remake and most GAF said it worse remake just because of graphics.

I don’t care about graphics. I care about the game’s state at launch. The real issue isn’t just the poor performance, it’s that the developers won’t even acknowledge the issues. Instead, they deny them.

Promoting this guy means he won’t care much about a games' launch state. He will normalize (just ship it, fix it later) mentality…if it’s even fixable.

Monster Hunter World was in much better shape at launch than Wild. I played it on a mid-range, it ran fine, improving over time. Meanwhile, Wild is unplayable even on high-end hardware.

 

[Hudo]

Good for him, probably bad for everyone else: Wilds did not launch in the best technical state and it also most likely means that Dragon's Dogma is dead for good (again)...

 

[Danjin44]

Monster Hunter World was in much better shape at launch than Wild. I played it on a mid-range, it ran fine, improving over time. Meanwhile, Wild is unplayable even on high-end hardware.

Not on consoles, even on PS4 pro it didn’t run anything close to 60FPS. MHWilds on PS5 is much better shape compared to MHWorld on PS4.

 

[Thebonehead]

His promotion is a celebration of mediocrity.

It's like celebrating the spice girls because they sold over 100 million records.

Bubble will burst

 

[Gamerfan81]

Promotion via nepotism is always bad for any company.

 

[FewRope]

Itsuno probably left for shit like this tbh

 

[March Climber]

Good for him, probably bad for everyone else: Wilds did not launch in the best technical state and it also most likely means that Dragon's Dogma is dead for good (again)...

Dragon’s Dogma died the minute Itsuno stepped out of the door.

There has not been a single hint of DLC even though it was shown on their leaked release roadmap.

 

[Exede]

Good for him, probably bad for everyone else: Wilds did not launch in the best technical state and it also most likely means that Dragon's Dogma is dead for good (again)...

TBH after Dragons Dogma 2 I don't want another one anymore.

 

[Hudo]

Dragon’s Dogma died the minute Itsuno stepped out of the door.

There has not been a single hint of DLC even though it was shown on their leaked release roadmap.

Yeah, I mean Itsuno was the champion of Dragon's Dogma inside Capcom, yet Dark Arisen was directed by someone else, afaik. So I have a glimmer of hope left.
I personally don't care for Monster Hunter and rather see more Dragon's Dogma stuff, but that's just me. Monster Hunter is obviously a huge moneymaker for Capcom.

TBH after Dragons Dogma 2 I don't want another one anymore.

I still think there is a lot of potential, even though it ended up being disappointing. I would still love to see DD2 getting the Dark Arisen treatment, at least.

 

[MagiusNecros]

There has not been a single hint of DLC even though it was shown on their leaked release roadmap.

MH Wilds is the DD2 DLC we deserve.

 

[GymWolf]

Meh, prepare for more incomplete games at launch

 

[MagiusNecros]

Meh, prepare for more incomplete games at launch

RE9 will end on Cliffhanger. And they will sell you the ending. They really like the Asura's Wrath strategy.