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Of course, he left Tecmo/Koei Tecmo over a payment dispute, but everything he's done since has fallen flat, including Devil's Third and the PC stand-alone release of the DT multiplayer. His most recent venture is a super-shady development of an NFT game. Not unlike Inafune in that regard.
It's hard not to draw conclusions on the very vocal Japanese games detractors from that era based on where they ended up later on. I'd rather play a crappy video game, Japanese or otherwise, than waste my time and everybody's energy resources buying nfts.Also look at their careers now: Inafune has achieved nothing since he left Capcom, Phil Fish is too proud of himself he's not making games anymore (after making only one), Jonathan Blow also hasn't released anything in years (and i also feel The Witness while great it's really a modern take on Myst, he didn't exactly reinvent the wheel).
At the time indies were the new hot trend, so that allowed few as...les (sorry for the insult but yeah that was their behaviour) to rise up and start acting like gods, until someone eventually put them in their place.
While it's true that the move to hd has been rough for many developers, as others mentioned handheld games were thriving during those times. And many big budget Western console games felt boring an same-y.