this is a, you know, it's on the record, it's a fact, but that is just, you know, the level of caution that you see. And it Agaki did not care, he would, you know, talk about other companies, he loved to drag Harada and Tekken. And you know, I think that came my impression just, you know, from what Harada said, and some other sources, is that he genuinely saw a lot in Tekken, you know, that the challenged Dead or Alive, which Dead or Alive was kind of Tecmo's comeback product, the original, and it was designed…
him that he would sort of make these statements that, you know, it wasn't like he was like performing like a rock star, but like, he very much had like a rock star vibe to him. And he would get a lot of press, he would get a lot of attention. The thing I think about the most is, he had a sort of rivalry going on with Katsuhiro Harada over, you know, the creator of Tekken. ...
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... profit. But he made it work. And the fact that his his kind of personality, and his sort of reputation sort of grew and grew over time. And, you know, as you mentioned in the press, I think it's, it's kind of, I think it was very beneficial to him and also to other people around him that he would sort of make these statements that, you know, it wasn't like he was like performing like a rock star, but like, he very much had like a rock star vibe to him. And he would get a lot of press, he would get a lot of attention. The thing I think about the most is, he had a sort of rivalry going on with Katsuhiro Harada over, you know, the creator of Tekken. And Itagaki was very vocal about making fun of Tekken, or dismissing Tekken is not like not worthy of attention, whatever. But he still talked about all the time. So in a way, he made more people think about Tekken in calling attention to it almost like a almost like a ...