Katsuya Eguchi

Katsuya Eguchi (Japanese江口 胜 也, Katsuya Eguchi, * 1965 in Fuchū ) is a Japanese video game developer. Since 1986 he works at Nintendo and leading a group of Development Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development. In this position he is responsible for commercially highly successful games like Wii Sports or Animal Crossing. Currently, he is also a producer of hardware Wii U.

Work

Katsuya Eguchi was born in Fuchū (Tokyo) and studied at the " Computer Graphics" Department of Japan Electronics College. There he received a degree. In 1986 he became a member of the Japanese video game developer Nintendo.

We ordered Eguchi of the largest internal development department, the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development ( EAD), at that time Research & Development 4 to developer Shigeru Miyamoto. To Eguchi's first work, the level design of Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo Entertainment System (NES ), 1988 ), Super Mario World (SNES, 1990) and the Neuauflagensammlung Super Mario All-Stars counts (SNES 1993).

Also in the near future Eguchi worked closely with Miyamoto. His first project in which he was director, was Star Fox ( SNES, 1993); a successor, which was created under his leadership, but remained unpublished. He had the same function in Wave Race held 64 ( N64, 1996).

Developed by Takashi Tezuka Animal Crossing series made ​​its debut in 2001 under the title Dobutsu no Mori (どうぶつの森) on the N64, Game Director was also here Eguchi. 2004, the EAD was restructured so that it is henceforth of five independent and independent groups. Eguchi 's manager and producer of the second EAD Kyoto group. He was responsible with his group for more Animal Crossing title. The latest offshoot, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, was released in 2012 for the 3DS.

Eguchi and his team developed the mini-game collections Wii Sports and Wii Fit, appearing in 2006 to start the Nintendo Wii. Wii Sports has sold over 70 million units for the best-selling video game of all time. As a result, Eguchi produced alongside the successor Wii Music Wii Sports Resort.

Katsuya Eguchi, although actually game developers, hardware is also producer of Nintendo's home console, the Wii U, which was the end of 2012 to the market. In developing the Nintendo 3DS set for the first time a game developer as a producer for a hardware, Hideki Konno.

Games with Eguchi's participation

  • Famicom Grand Prix: F1 Race (FDS, 1987) - graphic designer
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES, 1988) - Card Designer
  • Super Mario World (SNES, 1990) - Card Designer
  • Super Mario All-Stars (SNES, 1993) - graphic designer
  • Star Fox (SNES, 1993) - Director
  • Star Fox 2 (unpublished: SNES, 1995) - Director
  • Wave Race 64: Kawasaki Jet Skii ( N64, 1996) - Director
  • Yoshi's Story ( N64, 1997) - Main designer
  • Mario Artist ( N64DD, 2000) - consultant
  • Dobutsu no Mori ( N64, 2001) - Director
  • Animal Crossing (NGC 2002) - Director
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, 2005) - producer
  • Wii Sports (Wii, 2006) - producer
  • Wii Play (Wii, 2006) - producer
  • Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City ( Wii, 2008) - producer
  • Wii Music ( Wii, 2008) - producer
  • Wii Sports Resort ( Wii, 2009) - producer
  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf ( 3DS, 2012) - producer
  • Nintendo Country (2012 ) - producer
  • Wii U (2012 ) - Hardware Producer

Links / sources

  • Katsuya Eguchi at mediasrc.nintendo.com CV (PDF ); Access on 28 May 2012
  • Iwata Asks: Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary - Part 3: The developer of the Super Mario series ( 1) - 1 entry at Nintendo for " Super Mario " in nintendo.de; Access 28 May 2012
  • Katsuya Eguchi on n- sider
  • Katsuya Eguchi at kyoto -report
  • Katsuya Eguchi at MobyGames
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