Sega West Forced To Cut About 10% Of Total Staff
See Full ImageSega hasn't exactly been rolling lately; they recently shut down their San Francisco studio Secret Level and now, they're forced to cut back once again.
Sega has confirmed that they've laid off 73 employees from their San Francisco and London offices "as part of a restructuring effort for its Western operations." These layoffs amount to about 10% of Sega West and a spokesman for the company said this reshuffling "reflects both the changing face of the global video games market and a need to improve efficiencies with the operation." The losses were about even for both studios in question; they hit the marketing and internal development divisions but on the flip side, Sega will be setting up a new digital-focused division. Their London staff will mostly "act as a hub for the traditional console and PC side of the business." The digital division will of course handle downloadable projects for the PSN and XBLA, plus titles for the iPhone and iPad. Ever since the economic tailspin back in 2008, Sega has suffered some major losses; this includes Sega Sammy cutting 560 jobs, or about 18% of its entire workforce.
But we're certainly hoping for a revival of sorts, and we're super psyched for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, the upcoming downloadable throwback that should satisfy old-school fans.
4/22/2010 8:58:37 PM John Shepard
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Darthvintage
Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 10:38:50 PM
They had a concept on the dreamcast 2?
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WorldEndsWithMe
Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 11:23:17 PM
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BikerSaint
Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 10:32:28 PM
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Sega will be setting up a new digital-focused division. The digital division will of course handle downloadable projects for the PSN and XBLA, plus titles for the iPhone and iPad.>>>>>
Sounds like I'll have to close down all Sega operations soon here too, seeing how DL never ever sold 1-penny's worth at my house.
HMMMM, I wonder if NOAA's Weather Central knows where there's a really good sale on internet plywood & firewall shutters before the sh!tstorm of "DL only" hits us all smack dab in the face?????
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 12:45:54 AM
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kraygen
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 2:33:01 AM
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JackC8
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 7:42:24 AM
With that sort of focus on their customers, they'll probably be doing a lot of blaming it on the economy.
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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 8:56:55 PM
Last edited by WorldEndsWithMe on 4/23/2010 8:57:38 PM
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___________
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 2:31:54 AM
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maybe it has something to do with releasing crappy games and charging a arm and a leg for them?
i just bought sonic 2 on the Iphone for 15 bucks and it only uses a quarter of the freaking screen!
WTF?
biggest waste of 15 bucks ever!!!!!!!!!!
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kraygen
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 2:34:29 AM
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ace_boon_coon
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 9:32:19 AM
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CH1N00K
Friday, April 23, 2010 @ 10:15:00 AM
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It's funny now that I think about it, the only Sega games I've owned over the last couple generations are the Ultimate Genesis Collections.. I don't think I've purchased any new stuff...lol
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WorldEndsWithMe
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 10:23:14 PM
It's a shame to see them get demoted yet again, this time to focus on downloadable titles. I'll never see a Dreamcast 2.