Katsuya Eguchi

Who is Katsuya Eguchi?

Katsuya Eguchi is a game designer and manager at Nintendo EAD. He was born in 1965 in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in the Chiba Prefecture. He began work at Nintendo in 1986 and spent some time doing promotional artwork before starting as a designer on Super Mario Bros. 3. He first served as director for Star Fox in 1993. Other games he's been involved with include Super Mario World, Star Fox 2, Wave Race 64, Yoshi's Story, Animal Crossing, Wii Sports, and Wii Play. He is the producer of Animal Crossing: City Folk, Wii Music, and Wii Sports Resort.

Eguchi currently serves as a senior producer of his own EAD Software Development Group in the central Kyoto headquarters. He is the hardware producer of the Wii U.