Shenmue creator and longtime Sega employee Yu Suzuki has revealed he’ll be leaving his current position within Sega in favor of an advisory role later this year.
“I’ll be leaving my current job at Sega this September, and after that point I’ll remain on as an advisor,” he told Gamasutra. Suzuki formed his own studio, YS Net, in 2008 before changing his role at Sega in 2009. He retired from his job as research and development creative officer in favor of working in what was described at the time as a “diminished capacity.” It was recently announced that he had taken on a producer role at Premium Agency, a developer that’s working on smartphone games and a fighting game for Kinect.
“So I’ve formally been with both companies from 2008 until September 2011,” he continued. “With the new company [YS Net], I’ve been doing pretty much what I personally want to do myself.”
