The creator of the Resident Evil series and founder of Tango Gameworks, Shinji Mikami, has given more insight into why he chose to leave the studio he set up, and it turns out that he actually wanted to do it far sooner than he did.
Mikami founded Tango Gameworks – the studio behind The Evil Within games as well as Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush – back in 2010, but departed last year. However, according to a recent interview on the Byking YouTube channel (translated by Automaton), he wanted to leave eight years before that, but stayed because he felt responsibility towards the projects at the studio that were already underway. Based on the timing of his actual departure, it seems he might have begun considering this sometime after the release of The Evil Within.
