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Sega Corporation [a] [b] is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.It produces several multi-million-selling game franchises for arcades and consoles, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Angry Birds, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Virtua Fighter, Megami Tensei, Sakura Wars, Persona, and Yakuza.
The same applies to franchises owned by Atlus which Sega acquired in 2013 or the intellectual properties of Technosoft acquired in 2016. Sega is not the IP owner of all the franchises it has published, typically it is the case with the games it has made internally, but as examples ToeJam & Earl and Condemned: Criminal Origins are owned by its ...
This is a list of development studios owned by Sega, a Japanese video game developer and publisher based in Tokyo, Japan. Sega itself is a development studio of Sega Sammy Holdings, a company formed in 2004 after it merged with Sammy. Accompanied with the list is their history of game development.
Sega was founded on June 3, 1960, by American businessman Martin Bromley. The company started to distribute slot machines to U.S. bases in Japan. During the 1960s, Service Games was renamed to Sega Enterprises Ltd. Sega Enterprises sold their first product, the electro-mechanical game called Periscope which became a worldwide hit.
The non-video game assets were spun off under the Index name a few months later and sold in 2016, leaving the video game division under the Atlus name as a subsidiary of Sega. A North American branch of the company, originally Atlus USA and now Atlus West, was founded in 1991 in order to focus on publishing and localizing games for North America.
Cartridge-based handheld game consoles became prominent during this time, such as the Nintendo Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear and TurboExpress. Nintendo was able to capitalize on its success in the third generation , and managed to win the largest worldwide market share in the fourth generation as well.
Nintendo 64. Nintendo Gamecube. Game Boy. Game Boy Advance. Play Station. PS2 (Play Station 2) PS3 (Play Station 3) PS Vita (PlayStation Vita) SEGA Genesis. SEGA Saturn. Dreamcast. Xbox. Xbox 360.
Sega's official logo. Sega is a video game developer, publisher, and hardware development company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with multiple offices around the world.The company has produced home video game consoles and handheld consoles since 1983; these systems were released from the third console generation to the sixth.