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Sega restructures Comments by Tom Bramwell

9 July, 2003

Cuts and pastes R&D studios, and names new president of AM2.

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gravity0
09/07/03 @ 10:09
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So, what's happened to Yu Suzuki?

Edit - Nevermind. From Magic-box:
"- Sega announced that Hiroshi Kataoka has been assumed the president of Sega-AM2. Previously Yu Suzuki is the president of Sega-AM2, he is now organizing two new in-house development studios for Sega."
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09/07/03 @ 10:33
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Whichever studios get the cut, there's going to be a lot of broken gamers hearts. (please don't let it be Smilebit, please don't let it be Smilebit, please don't let it be Smilebit)
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09/07/03 @ 10:37
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Edit - Nevermind. From Magic-box:

No no no. Nevermind - from Nirvana ;)

Not sure what this means for AM2. I suspect that the only reason I liked some of their games was Yu Suzuki.
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09/07/03 @ 12:42
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Smilebit is one of the best development teams in Sega, so i hope they don't close it. They should close Wow entertainment instead, they don't seem to be doing anything interesting lately.
After all, they're not firing people, they're just restructuring them in different teams inside Sega. Anyway, it's obvious AM#2 and the Sonic Team will remain untouched.
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09/07/03 @ 13:07
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Smilebit are sure to stay.

If we have to pick 5 then I'm thinking AM2 (VF4 and obvious from announcement), Sonic Team (Sonic titles), Smilebit (all Seag's Xbox efforts, or so it seems) , Overworks (Skies of Arcadia), and UGA (Rez).

Of the other 4 I can't even think of the name of 2 of them so unless someone reminds me of what they've worked on recently (ie Dreamcast onwards) I don't really mind if they're combined into 2 teams with one under the control of Yu Suzuki.
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09/07/03 @ 22:25
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Ooh - this'll be interesting. I think Suzuki is fantastic - so it'll be interesting what he'll come up with. His games (Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, Virtua Cop, F355, Shenmue) have always been different to Kataoka's (FV, 18 Wheeler, Outtrigger). I wonder who'll be taking the helm of the next Virtua Fighter - allegedly the last in the series.

Here's hoping for a revival of Virtua Racing.....TIME BONUS!

PPPK :-P
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09/07/03 @ 22:45
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Hmm, while UGA and Smilebit make truly special games, they don't exactly rack up big sells. Which is why Sega is doing this restructure.

Studios performing well are AM2, Rosso, Sonic Team, Smilebit, Amusement Vision.

Sure, Smilebit will probably stay. But as I see it, Hitmaker, Wow, UGA isn't doing as well as one might hope. And whats Visual Concepts doing these days? Don't they put the 2kx titles to other companies for development?

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