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SEGA Cutting Jobs and Restructuring to Focus on Producing Mobile/PC Games
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It was called Sega cuts hundreds of jobs in PC/mobile-focused restructuring | Ars Technica
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
Sega will be reducing its workforce significantly as it goes through a "group structure reform" to refocus on digital PC and mobile games, the Japanese publisher
As part of the plan, Sega will offer an early retirement package to "around 300" employees and seek to "rightsize" an undeclared number of other employees to reduce labor costs and streamline its packaged games business overseas. The company had about 2,200 employees as of the 2013 fiscal year.
Sega of America will also shut its San Francisco headquarters and move to southern California in a move to reduce fixed corporate expenses. A Sega representative tells Eurogamer that the restructuring will only affect "a limited number of staff" in Europe.
The staff reductions are part of a major pivot away from console games and toward "digital games, centered around smartphone and PC online gaming, as a growth area," as Sega put it. Sega has adapted a number of its popular franchises for mobile platforms in recent months, including
Super Monkey Ball, Crazy Taxi, and a pair of Sonic titles.
After experiencing some significant losses, Sega has announced that it will be …
Once a major player in the console hardware market, Sega has struggled to maintain its brand since becoming a third-party publisher in 2001. After being acquired by pachinko manufacturer Sammy in 2004, the company cut 400 jobs after an extremely weak fiscal performance in 2008.
While Sega\'s recent release of Creative Assembly\'s Alien: Isolation sold over a million copies, Wii U and 3DS exclusive Sonic Boom was savaged by critics and seems to have suffered on store shelves. Sega\'s Football Manager series remains a popular force in Europe, though, with annual releases still regularly appearing near the top of sales charts on the continent.
Kyle Orland / Kyle is the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica, specializing in video game hardware and software. He has journalism and computer science degrees from University of Maryland. He is based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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It's the same news, but it explains it much clearer.
I suppose you could say I am being overly pessimistic about this, but I have no interest in buying a mobile device, nor much interest or knowledge in PC games, and from what I saw from Sonic's previous flirtations with mobile gaming (Sonic Jump, Sonic Dash, etc.), I am none too optimistic about this direction.
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