Yu Suzuki not working at Sega anymore?
Posted by George. Filed under George, Interviews. Tagged with Yu Suzuki.
According to Simon Jeffery in a recent interview with Gamasutra, famed Sega producer Yu Suzuki (known for titles such as Shenmue, Outrun, and many more) is not working at Sega anymore.
“Speaking of names, what has happened to Yu Suzuki?
SJ: Last I heard, he was doing some online stuff in China.
He’s spearheaded an arcade racing title. Is he just really off in his own world?
SJ: Yeah. He’s kind of his own man right now. Every now and again, he’ll come up with an idea, and I don’t think anything has come out of that yet, but we’re still working with him. He’s not an employee anymore, but…
I wasn’t sure if he was still actually a Sega employee.
SJ: Not as far as I know.”
But then again, Simon Jeffery could be wrong. However, this could explain why Shenmue Online and Psy-Phi never came out…
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Comments on this article
There have been 10 responses to this article.
you do not understand! He is making Shenmue 3 ONLINE in china.
crackdude
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 12:52 pm.
All by himself with his awesomeness giving a hand in the next-gen graphics engine.
crackdude
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 12:53 pm.
Omg - I’m actually quite shocked by this.
Graham
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 2:14 pm.
He’s the head of Digitalrex, which is a SEGA subsidiary. He’s just not the head of an internal team anymore. Everyone needs to calm down a but.
Jason
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 5:22 pm.
bit*
Jason
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 5:23 pm.
So what’s the racing game they’ve made note of? R-Tuned?
TRAViS
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 5:28 pm.
To answer/respond to some of the comments here.. the racing game Yu worked on was Sega Race TV. Also, the last thing Digital Rex was working on, was Shenmue Online for the Chinese market… which was actually canceled a year or two back.
Pretty sad, actually. Yu Suzuki’s games are what I grew up playing the most..
Visionnerz
Posted August 11th, 2008 at 6:05 pm.
I love Yu. He’s always had the best games. I think he’s better than that over-rated hack Miyamoto. There hasn’t been a good Mario game since Mario 64! But Virtua Fighter is still everything it used to be but more and better.
Gamerschoice
Posted August 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am.
What the hell, don’t mention Miyamato here he is Naka’s competition Suzuki is in his own league.
Cube_B3
Posted August 12th, 2008 at 1:02 am.
http://gonintendo.com/?p=52394
There you go. He’s still with SEGA.
Jason
Posted August 12th, 2008 at 1:33 pm.