Daisuke Sato

Daisuke Sato
Date of birth: 1971-06-19 (age 49)
Role(s): Designer, Director, Producer

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Daisuke Sato (佐藤 大輔) frequently works with Toshihiro Nagoshi. He is the current Yakuza Series Producer. He's a SEGA veteran whose first game was on the Saturn. He began working together with Toshihiro Nagoshi since Scud Race on SEGA's Model 3, and went on to work on many other games on the arcades. On the console market, he worked on Super Monkey Ball, which was an enhanced port of the arcade title, Monkey Ball. He took part as a Stage Design Director on F-Zero GX, developed by Nagoshi's studio, Amusement Vision in collaboration with Nintendo. Furthermore, he would be a major contributor to the founding of Nagoshi's Yakuza series, serving as a Chief Designer on the first game and he would become a regular for the series. After CS3 ceased to exist, and was absorbed into CS1 and CS2, Sato would become the head of CS1.

Production history

• Phantasy Star Online 2/Credits () — Graphic Artists
• Scud Race (Model 3;
  1996) — Designers
• Virtua Fighter 3tb (Model 3;
  1997) — Character Design
• Virtua Fighter 3tb (Dreamcast;
  1998) — Character Design
• Daytona USA 2: Battle on the Edge (Model 3;
  1998) — Design Support (AM2)
• Spikeout: Digital Battle Online (Model 3;
  1998) — Chief Stage Designer
• Spikeout: Final Edition (Model 3;
  1999) — Chief Stage Designer
• Sega GT (Dreamcast;
  2000) — Test play
• Virtua Striker 3 Ver. 2002 (Triforce;
  2002) — Designers
• Super Monkey Ball Jr. (Game Boy Advance;
  2002) — Design
• Super Monkey Ball 2 (GameCube;
  2002) — Stage Design Director
• F-Zero AX (Triforce;
  2003) — Stage Design Director
• F-Zero GX (GameCube;
  2003) — Stage Design Director
• Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (Xbox;
  2005) — Stage Designers
• Spikeout: Battle Street (Xbox;
  2005) — Supervisor
• Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll (Wii;
  2010) — Special Thanks
• Super Monkey Ball 3D (Nintendo 3DS;
  2011) — Special Thanks
• Sega Ages Virtua Racing (Nintendo Switch;
  2019) — Special Thanks
• Sega Ages Columns II (Nintendo Switch;
  2019) — Special Thanks

• Yakuza (2005) — Chief Designer
• Yakuza 2 (2006) — Lead Designer
• Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! (2008) — Director
• Yakuza 3 (2009) — Director
• Binary Domain (2012) — Director
• Yakuza 5 (2012) — Executive Managers
• Ryu ga Gotoku: Ishin! (2014) — Executive Managers
• Yakuza 0 (2015) — Line Producer
• Yakuza Kiwami (2016) — Line Producer
• Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (2016) — General Producer
• Yakuza Kiwami 2 (2017) — Producer
• Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise (2018) — General Producer
• Judgment (2018) — Producer
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD (2019) — Executive Management
• Streets of Rage 4 (2020) — SEGA Development Team