Pokémon visual studio Creatures Inc. has a new CEO

There’s been a altering of the guard at one of many Japanese corporations behind the Pokémon franchise. Creatures Inc. CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara and president Hirokazu “Chip” Tanaka (who was additionally a significant chiptune music pioneer) have stepped down from the corporate.

Yuji Kitano is now the corporate’s president and CEO, and Tomotaka Komura has stepped into the brand new function of government vp. Kitano beforehand served as one of many producers behind The Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport and on the corporate board. Komura’s beforehand function is troublesome to discern, although he seems within the credit many Pokémon video games underneath the “particular thanks” part.

This information (which appears solely to be publicly obtainable as an update to Creatures Inc.’s web site), was first spotted by Serebii.web founder Joe Merrick. Merrick famous that this transformation probably won’t herald any main adjustments for the Pokémon model or recreation route.

Creatures occupies a singular function within the manufacturing of video games within the Pokémon sequence. It is the corporate that designs The Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport, and spearheads growth on visible property for Pokémon video video games and TV reveals. But it surely’s additionally the primary developer behind spinoffs like Detective Pikachu.

This shakeup doesn’t suggest that Ishihara is finished with the world of Pokémon. He’s in spite of everything, nonetheless CEO and president of The Pokémon Firm.