The story of Monster Hunter Wilds’ meteoric success has a brand new chapter, as a longtime sequence producer has been pushed up the company ladder to an even bigger job at publisher-developer Capcom.
Starting on April 1, Monster Hunter producer Ryozo Tsujimoto will grow to be Capcom’s chief product officer answerable for growth divisions, the company has introduced. Ryozo Tsujimoto has labored at Capcom since 1996. He’s the son of Capcom founder and CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto, and youthful brother of Capcom President and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto.
Ryozo Tsujimoto has been a longtime champion of the Monster Hunter sequence, working as a steadily extra senior producer on the sequence since 2007’s Monster Hunter Freedom 2.
Ryozo Tsujimoto has been a public and behind-the-scenes advocate for the once-niche Monster Hunter sequence because it grew from small Japanese property into Capcom’s best-selling recreation sequence. Unlike his older brother, he has remained near the event facet of video games slightly than the enterprise one.
“I nonetheless get entangled in gameplay facets. I’m not only a swimsuit,” he instructed The Guardian in a 2008 interview across the launch of Monster Hunter: World.
From the elevation to a loftier place, it is clear that the enterprise facet of Capcom is keen to imagine in Ryozo Tsujimoto’s imaginative and prescient for what a great recreation is as properly—in any case, it is underneath his tenure that Monster Hunter has grow to be a world hit.
Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcom’s fastest-selling recreation ever, with greater than eight million copies offered in simply three days.
