The new classic masterpiece "Legend of the Hungry Wolf: The City of Wolfs" was released last month, but the market performed poorly. On May 13, SNK announced that President Kenji Matsuhara will resign and will serve as a senior consultant in the future. The official did not explain the specific reason.

Kenichi Matsuhara is a senior veteran of the Japanese gaming industry. He has previously served as chairman of Glory Tecmo and senior director CTO of Sega. He became the chairman and president of SNK in 2021.

·After Kenji Matsuhara became the chairman and president of SNK, he started to lead the development of "Legend of Hungry Wolf: City of Wolfs" and was officially released on April 24, 2025.

·According to current statistics, the Steam version has received particularly good reviews, with the largest number of players online, with a maximum of 1,157 people online in 24 hours. Compared with the peers "Street Fighter 6" (32,087) and "Iron Fist 8" (6,841), the largest number of players online during the release period of the same brother "King of Fighters 15".

·The reasons why Kenji Matsuhara left office have not been clarified by the official, and foreign media generally speculated that it is related to the market performance of "Legend of the Hungry Wolf: City of Wolfs".