Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each ‘to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied’

Fuji TV’s sequence The place Did That Cash Go? interviews people who had all of it and misplaced it, like sport designer Yoshiki Okamoto (Sponichi Annex by way of Automaton). Throughout his years at Capcom he was producer on Closing Battle and Street Fighter 2, in addition to racking up credit on Darkstalkers and Resident Evil games, amongst others. He left to discovered indie studio Recreation Republic in 2003, which hit bother when their American writer Brash Leisure went bankrupt, leaving him in debt to the tune of 1.7 billion yen (nearly $US11 million).

As the interview paperwork, he constructed himself again up once more with Monster Strike, a cellular gacha sport that boasts greater than 65 million gamers as of December. Now he is a producer at Deluxe Games with a portfolio of gacha hits, an revenue of 1.2 billion yen per 12 months ($US7.7 million), and a Malaysian mansion “the dimension of about 20 tennis courts.”