Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each 'to make sure the people who spend the most don't end up dissatisfied'

Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each ‘to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Gaming Industry Doom co-creator John Romero adores Ghost Recon and has over 3,000 hours in World of Warcraft: ‘God, I lived in that game every day for five years’ FPS Highguard didn’t flop FPS Laid-off Highguard developer cuts loose on the reaction to the infamous Game Awards reveal trailer: ‘We were turned into a joke from minute one’ Gaming Industry Videogames are ‘losing in the War for Attention’: Analyst says many of the industry’s biggest markets are spending less time on gaming Fallout Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii has played 10,000 hours of Fallout 4 while refusing to do the main quest, build settlements, or travel with anyone but Dogmeat: ‘I’d much rather be beaten to death by Deathclaws’ Fighting I don’t understand what Riot wants from 2XKO Roguelike ‘It’s weird in the industry right now’: Cult of the Lamb’s devs still have faith that the indie scene will continue dishing out ‘smash hits’ FPS Geoff Keighley shouldn’t be blamed for Highguard’s failure, Larian publishing boss says: ‘There are genuine villains in this industry but I just don’t see them here’ Roguelike ‘I told you so!’: As Mewgenics roars past 250,000 copies sold in less than a day, Edmund McMillen says ‘I knew this game would eventually see the light of day, and I knew it would be my best work’ Gaming Industry Remedy’s new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to ‘scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value’ Strategy ‘We have made back our development budget after 3 hours’: Mewgenics explodes to number one Steam seller 14 years after its announcement Roguelike Mewgenics has its very own Mr. Resetti that’ll make ‘a brain slushie’ out of you and curse your cats if you save scum: ‘No, seriously, I dish out IRL curses’ Action Build A Rocket Boy dumpster fire flares up in exciting new ways as its co-CEO reportedly claims the ‘guys who’ve been sabotaging MindsEye’ have been identified—and will be demonized via an in-game spy mission RPG Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: ‘We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot’ Gaming Industry Despite having nearly its entire back catalog on Steam, Suda51’s studio doesn’t benefit much from sales of its old games: ‘It’s really nice for the other people who are making bank off that, though’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Arc RaidersBest PC gearFalloutGame Quizzes Gaming Industry Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each ‘to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied’ News By Jody Macgregor published 20 February 2026 You have to think like a whale to catch a whale. 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He left to found indie studio Game Republic in 2003, which hit trouble when their American publisher Brash Entertainment went bankrupt, leaving him in debt to the tune of 1.7 billion yen (almost $US11 million).As the interview documents, he built himself back up again with Monster Strike, a mobile gacha game that boasts more than 65 million players as of December. Now he’s a producer at Deluxe Games with a portfolio of gacha hits, an income of 1.2 billion yen per year ($US7.7 million), and a Malaysian mansion “the size of about 20 tennis courts.”Which is why he can afford to drop 80 million yen ($US515,000) on the personal account he has in each game. “I need to understand what people who spend a lot of money on them think. I do this to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied,” he said. Related articles Uh-oh, I think I’m finally all gacha’d out In 2025, Monster Hunter fell