Yosuke Hayashi
Yosuke Hayashi (早矢仕 洋介 Hayashi Yōsuke) is a general manager of Koei Tecmo's entertainment division, and the former head of development studio Team Ninja from 2010–2021 following Tomonobu Itagaki's departure.
According to him, Hayashi has been into video games ever since the Famicom days of his childhood. He would read the staff credits and fantasize about someday meeting the creators for the games he liked. He naturally wanted to pursue a video gaming career when he grew up. Although he knows developers are often hung on creating "the best game", Hayashi feels that creating something from the perspective of players and making that entertaining holds importance. If a developer pitches an idea to the project lead that sounds interesting for fans, it always motivates the team to try harder. Understanding and creating a product that fits these goals, he feels, is the real art of the medium.
He first came to prominence with his work in directing the development of the Nintendo DS game Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword and Ninja Gaiden Sigma for the PlayStation 3. Following the turbulent departure of former Team Ninja lead Tomonobu Itagaki, Hayashi was promoted and given the studio's creative reigns. His first projects as Team Ninja lead include Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and the Wii title Metroid: Other M.
As of 2022, as Hayashi is promoted to the main company's general manager of its entertainment division, Fumihiko Yasuda serves as the third head of Team Ninja.
Credits[]
- Dead or Alive 3 (2001) - Planner
- Dead or Alive 4 (2005) - Tester
- Dead or Alive Paradise (2010) - Executive Producer
- Dead or Alive Dimensions (2011) - Producer & Director
- Dead or Alive 5 (2012) - Producer
- Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) - Producer
- Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015) - Producer
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 (2016) - Producer
- Dead or Alive 6 (2019) - General Producer
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| v · e · d Personnel
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| Studios and Publishers | |
| Koei Tecmo • Team Ninja • Tecmo Sega | |
| Directors and Producers | |
| Current | Yosuke Hayashi • Yohei Shimbori |
| Former | Tomonobu Itagaki |
| Sound and Music | |
| Current | Makoto Hosoi |
| Former | Kazuhiko Inaba • Takafumi Inamori • Ryo Koike • Shigekiyo Okuda • Hideyuki Suzuki |