Daisuke Sato

Daisuke Sato
Date of birth: 1971-06-19 (age 51)
Employment history: Sega of Japan Divisions: Sega AM11 Sega Software R&D Dept. 4 Amusement Vision
Role(s): Designer, Director, Producer

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Daisuke Sato (佐藤 大輔) frequently works with Toshihiro Nagoshi. He was the 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. In October 2021, he announced his departure from SEGA as part of a 10th anniversary message posted on the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio website.

Production history

Games

• Blue Seed: Kushinada Hirokuden (Saturn;
  1995) — デザイナー (as 佐藤 大輔)
• Magic Knight Rayearth (Saturn;
  1995) — フィールドマップ制作 (as 佐藤 大輔)
• Virtua Fighter 3 (Model 3;
  1996) — Character Design
• Scud Race (Model 3;
  1996) — Designers
• Scud Race Plus (Model 3;
  1997) — 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 (AM11)
• Spikeout: Digital Battle Online (Model 3;
  1998) — Chief Stage Designer
• Spikeout: Final Edition (Model 3;
  1999) — Chief Stage Designer
• Shenmue (Dreamcast;
  1999) — Debuggers
• Sega GT (Dreamcast;
  2000) — Test play
• Slashout (NAOMI;
  2000) — Chief Designer
• Skies of Arcadia (GameCube;
  2002) — Graphic Designer
• Spikers Battle (NAOMI;
  No results
  9999) — Design Director
• Spikers Battle (NAOMI;
  No results
  9999) — Stage Designer
• US Shenmue (Dreamcast;
  2001) — Debuggers
• Super Monkey Ball (GameCube;
  2001) — Stage Designers
• 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
• Spikeout: Battle Street (Xbox;
  2005) — Supervisor
• Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (Xbox;
  2005) — Stage Designers
• Sonic Unleashed () — Artist Special Thanks
• Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll (Wii;
  2010) — Special Thanks
• Super Monkey Ball 3D (Nintendo 3DS;
  2011) — Special Thanks
• Phantasy Star Online 2 () — Graphic Artists
• Sega Heroes (Android;
  2018) — Streets of Rage
• Sega Ages Virtua Racing (Nintendo Switch;
  2019) — Special Thanks
• Sega Ages Columns II (Nintendo Switch;
  2019) — Special Thanks
• Streets of Rage 4 (Windows PC;
  2020) — SEGA Development Team

Music

• The Works II (CD;
  2016) — Producers & Directors for the Original Projects

• 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