{"id":18867,"date":"2023-05-12T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=18867"},"modified":"2023-05-12T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:48:24","slug":"20230512-18867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230512-18867\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoshinori Ono gifts Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to his employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n



Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/strong> for Nintendo Switch on May 12. You can get a sense of how highly anticipated the game was by taking a look at social media in Japan, where many have been able to take a \u201cZelda holiday<\/a>.\u201d Amid all the fanfare, the president of a certain game company decided to hold a raffle for his employees in which he gave away copies of Tears of the Kingdom. That president was none other than Yoshinori Ono.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yoshinori Ono is a video game creator who formerly worked at Capcom, where he was involved in the development of a variety of different titles. He was best known for his role as the executive producer for the company\u2019s fighting games, including Street Fighter IV, and was frequently seen at gaming events with his trademark Blanka figure in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 20 years at the company, Ono resigned from Capcom in September 2020, and in May 2021, he was appointed president of Delightworks, the developers of Fate\/Grand Order. In February of 2022, the company transferred its game operations to a new company named Lasengle, making a fresh start as an affiliate of Aniplex. Ono continued in the role of president at Lasengle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his personal Twitter account, Ono revealed that he had given the latest Zelda game to his employees as a gift. That said, Lasengle had 286 employees as of March, so giving a copy to everyone would have come at quite a cost. As such, Ono decided to raffle off the copies instead. He later apologized<\/a> for needing to use a raffle system and not being able to give the game to all his employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ono himself also appears to be raring to dive into the game, saying that starting from today, his responses to business matters may be a little slow, and once again apologizing to all of his employees. It\u2019s unclear just how much truth is hidden away within this little joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I spoke to all the employees about the release #Zelda<\/a> during Monday morning assembly. The excitement got the better of me, and it ended up turning into a flow where I spontaneously decided to give the latest game as a gift to the employees. pic.twitter.com\/NJVBRbK6x9<\/a><\/p>— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) May 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>