Tecmo has responoded to Itagaki,
who quit Tecmo yesterday because of unpaid bonuses. Tecmo denies not paying Itagaki's bonuses. Tecmo says they have a bonus system in place and that they have paid Itagaki's bonuses every year. Tecmo claims the bonus that Itagaki is referring to is something from a past management. They have also accused Itagaki of distortions because of the damage that was sought out against CEO Yoshimi Yasuda.
Tecmo issued a response today to yesterday's statement from Creative Officer Tomonobu Itagaki in which the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive producer announced his resignation and litigation over, among other things, unpaid bonuses.
In the statement, Tecmo denies responsibility to pay the completion bonus mentioned by Itagaki in his complaint. The company claims to have a bonus system in place, and states that it paid Itagaki this bonus every year. The bonus Itagaki mentioned in his complaint is, according to the Tecmo statement, separate from this and is something from the time of previous management.
The company also refers to the damages sought out against CEO Yoshimi Yasuda as being the product of "distortions" from Itagaki.
The Tecmo statement goes on to complain about Itagaki's public disclosure of the litigation, which it considered to be a personal matter and thus did not go public with it despite considering it an important issue. It also accuses Itagaki of referring to Team Ninja's productions in his statement as if they were developed exclusively by himself.
Before closing off with an apology to customers, stock holders and business partners for any trouble that might have been caused, the statement notes that Team Ninja has started working on new titles.
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I doubt he would have quit if there was any doubt, its kinnnd of a big deal.
It's also odd that Tecmo's official website is now slandering Itagaki with the sexual-harassment case against Itagaki that was filed years ago ... (at least, according to Kotaku) ... The sexual harassment case has nothing to do with the issue and was finished over a year ago. Sounds like Tecmo is just trying to make Itagaki look bad now.
Tecmo is most likely packing themselves. They've just lost one of their biggest assets to the company. And if Itagaki has good ol' fashioned Japanese pride, no money in the world would make him want to come back.
GG's right, Tecmo simply wants to save face. Itagaki's quite a man of his word, and he took the boss' words quite literally. I'll be pissed if Tecmo tries to bring in those old charges on Itagaki to the case. That's completely irrelevant here. This has to do with unpaid bonuses.
I guess you didn't see this yet