DOA3 = 2001
NG1 = 2004
So no, Christie came first.
LOL.... Ninja Gaiden was in production in 1999.
In 1999, Team Ninja started work on the "Next-Generation Ninja Gaiden Project".The first stage of development was to create the game on the
Sega NAOMI arcade system board. They then planned to move the project to the
Dreamcast console for further development and release, but this was abandoned when
Sega announced the end of Dreamcast product line in 2001. At this point, Tecmo decided to release Ninja Gaiden as a launch title for the
Sony PlayStation 2 in the United States. Itagaki, however, had other plans; the Team Ninja Leader was impressed with the
software development kits for the Xbox and pushed for his team to develop for the
Microsoft console.The company kept silent on this change in direction, and surprised both the games industry and fans when they announced at
E3 2002 that Ninja Gaiden would be released exclusively on the Xbox gaming console. Most fans who voted on Tecmo's poll wanted the game on the
NintendoGameCube.