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A business alliance with Microsoft was announced where Sega would develop 11 games for the new Xbox console. [335] After Okawa's death, Hideki Sato became president of Sega. Sato, a 30-year veteran of Sega, had previously developed Sega's video game consoles. Because of poor sales in 2002, Sega was forced to cut its profit forecast by 90% for 2003.
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.
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.
The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966. Handheld consoles originated from electro-mechanical games that used mechanical controls and light-emitting diodes (LED) as visual ...
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Pages in category "Sega video game franchises" The following 118 pages are in this category, out of 118 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
In the case of these games, the latest release date given for the franchise shall be that of the last game in which Sega was involved in its publishing. Also included in the franchise list is Total War. While this series did not begin with Sega as either a developer or a publisher, Sega did publish later games in the series.
Sega supported five different console hardware, with the first and second department focusing on Sega Saturn, the third and fourth on the Genesis as well as add-ons 32X and Sega CD, a fifth development department existed for Game Gear development and a sixth department existed for RPG's.