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On November 1, 2000, Sega changed its company name from Sega Enterprises to Sega Corporation. [317] In December 2000, The New York Times reported that Nintendo and Sega were holding discussions regarding a potential US$ 2 billion buyout, though the two companies denied this; a Sega spokesman called the report "absolutely outrageous". [318]
Sega Corporation [a] [b] is a Japanese video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in 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.
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.
Sega also released the Genesis Nomad, a handheld unit that played Sega Genesis games, in 1995 in North America only. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] The unit had been developed through Sega of America with little oversight from Sega's main headquarters, and as Sega moved forward, the company as a whole decided to put more focus on the Sega Saturn to stay ...
Sega Europe president Mike Hayes said that Japanese origin IP became less popular around 2004, with Sega America president Simon Jeffery showing a similar sentiment. [120] Specifically there was motivation to be seen less like just like another Japanese company by Sega of America, [ 121 ] with them being more picky what to bring over from the ...
The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive [b] outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. Sega released it in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive, and in 1989 in North America as the Genesis.
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By late 1995, Sega was supporting five different consoles and two add-ons, and Sega Enterprises chose to discontinue the Mega Drive in Japan to concentrate on the new Sega Saturn. [14] While this made perfect sense for the Japanese market, it was disastrous in North America: the market for Genesis games was much larger than for the Saturn, but ...