Team Ninja collaborated on multiple titles with Nintendo. Team Ninja would continue as subsidiary of Koei Tecmo. A year later all of Tecmo's assets were absorbed into Koei Tecmo, including IP and its subsidiaries and divisions.
The newly founded Koei Tecmo woul officially disband Tecmo in 2010. In 2009, it was announced that Tecmo and Koei would be merging. In 2008, the action-adventure game Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360 was published by Microsoft Game Studios, making it the first game created by Team Ninja to not be published by Tecmo Tecmo Koei later released an enhanced version of Ninja Gaiden II on the PlayStation 3 as Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. Ninja Gaiden would be released in 2004 to rave critical acclaim. However, due to Itagaki being impressed by the technological capabilities of the new Xbox from Microsoft, development was moved to that platform. Dead or Alive Ultimate being shown at TGS 2004 at the Xbox booth. Due to Sega exiting the console business, development was moved to the PlayStation 2. In 1999, Team Ninja started work on a new Ninja Gaiden project, originally intended for arcades, later for the Dreamcast. Itagaki believed that violence and eroticism were needed for "true entertainment". In order to stand out from other fighting games, Team Ninja focused on making Dead or Alive provocative.
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Seeing how popular Sega's Virtua Fighter series was in Japan at the time, the management asked Tomonobu Itagaki to create a game similar to Virtua Fighter. During the mid 1990s, Japanese gaming company Tecmo was in financial trouble.
Team Ninja was formed by Tomonobu Itagaki from a group of game designers working at Tecmo specifically for the purpose of creating the home versions of the fighting game series Dead or Alive. History Founding, Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden (1995–2009) It was founded by Tomonobu Itagaki, and is best known for franchises such as Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive and Nioh. Team Ninja ( Japanese: チームニンジャ) is a Japanese video game developer, and a division of Koei Tecmo, founded in 1995 as a part of Tecmo.
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