Someone(who’s a Naka defender btw) send me this pic of Yuji Naka posting a hashtag for Sonic Movie 3. Unfortunately ppl in comment/qrts still mock him, thinking he’s in jail despite being released in probation having 3 years left remaining. Making Naka start blocking ppl.
On the page for Sonic X-treme's development, it talks about the famous factoid of "They used the NiGHTS engine without permission, and Yuji Naka threatened to pull out if they did".
However, that event...didn't happen.
https://twitter.com/nakayuji/status/1545081556019998720
https://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Xtreme_FAQ_by_Chris_Senn_(2008-12-23)#ENGINE_questio
Both Yuji Naka and the lead developer of Sonic X-treme itself say they never used the NiGHTS engine proper, with Chris Senn saying they only used an engine that looked similar to it and Naka saying he never shared it at all. As a wiki, this kind of misinformation should be taken off the page for Sonic X-treme (and other pages where relevant), especially since outside of the wiki it is used to damage the public perception of Yuji Naka. I would do it myself, but the paragraphs about it are extensive and could intertwine with true information, so I don't want to delete them blindly.
It feels like a while. Looks like he’s impressed with the Sonic Movie 3 trailer.
Y’all thought he was in prison? You are wrong. Our goat is back.
As already known by all, Naka was found guilty of insider trading and was recently sentenced to 30 months in prison, suspended for four years.
What this means is that he will avoid prison as long as he follows the conditions set by the order and obviously doesn’t get into anymore legal trouble again during this time.
He also received two fines totalling ¥173 million ($1.2 million).
Source: Japanese news agency Jiji Press via VGC.
Thoughts?
Yuji Naka is in prison by now.
Wherever you are— Come back and save Mr. Naka, producer of the Sonic Team.
Made this cause I was bored. This meme describes from ppl who stopped buying Sonic games after the Dreamcast would imagine if Sega was still more than just staying as 3rd party publisher forever or if Sonic had much love to journalists more than giving him negative backlash reception.
Think about it.
Sonic went from being a police officer:
To getting arrested by them 9 years later
And Yuji Naka went from producing a show where Sonic gets arrested:
To getting arrested himself 19 years later
Both of them get arrested with years that have 9 in them, and Adventure 2 was released on June 19. And lastly there's 911. Strange, isn't it?
45 Votes in Poll
Prosecutors of the former Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka have stated that he should serve two and a half years in jail for insider trading while working at Square Enix. That’s not all as the famed video game developer has also told to expect to pay over $1.2 million in fines by the prosecution.
Yuji Naka purchased ¥144.7 million yen of Square Enix stock while working at the company as he knew they were planning to release Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, before it was officially announced, knowing that the stock would surge based on this. The final results of the trial will made known on 7th July.
Sonic co-creator, Yuki Naka, has admitted his guilt in the first court case held against him and another former Square Enix employee for insider trading. Mr Naka told the court that he found out about the games in question before they were publicly announced by the company and that he bought stock in them in order to profit financially.
The court case revolves around Mr. Naka purchasing stock in Square Enix mobile games, Dragon Quest Tact and Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier before they were announced. He bought a total of 130,000 shares, earning a profit on the sale of over 20 million yen”.
37 Votes in Poll
Yuji Naka got arrested AGAIN for THE SAME REASON LIKE LAST TIME & no I'm not kidding (Please stop doing illegal trading dude, it's going to get you arrested):
Just like the first time he was arrested Naka's re-arrest is related to the alleged insider trading at Square Enix. In this case its for reportedly having confidential knowledge of the mobile title Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier.
Source: Video Game Chronicle.
Jesus, what is going on in this man's life?😓 Tsk tsk...
Former Sonic Team boss Yuji Naka has now once again been charged by the Special Investigation Tokyo Department regarding insider trading in Japan. Yuji Naka and another former employee at Square Enix were charged with another count of violating Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
Mr. Naka is now accused of purchasing an additional 120,000 shares of mobile developer Ateam before they launched the iOS and Android game, Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier in 2021 (now shut down). Mr. Naka was previously charged with purchasing shares in a company developing a Dragon Quest game for iOS and Android in which he allegedly made “hundreds of millions of yen.” A person with knowledge in the matter told Yahoo Japan that because it is a first offence and he didn’t get rich from the insider trading while working for Square Enix, Mr Naka will most likely be handed a suspended sentence by a judge.
“In the case of Naka, since it is his first offence and the amount of money is small, he will probably be given a suspended sentence.”
