Sega has the outlook for the results for the fiscal year that ended on 31 march, adjusted. The publisher has expectations with half down and goes to intervene by staff, and to dismiss and games to delete.
Sega will especially focus more on the Japanese market, it appears from the statement that Sega Sammy Holding, the Japanese parent company of the game publisher, has released. After the new projections over the past fiscal year, the holding company mainly to intervene in the western branch of Sega. So there will be redundancies in the European and North American offices of the publisher. To how many people are involved, is not known. According to website IGN to be especially departments such as marketing affected, while Sega’s North American testing service to connect. The testing of games for the American market is now left to the European branch of the company.
The publisher will also focus on games that have already proved. Sega are thinking of series like Sonic the Hedgehog, Football Manager, Total War and Aliens. What is to say that the publisher is cancelling new initiatives, such as the march appeared shooter Binary Domain. The publisher also announced that a number of games has been deleted, though it is not known which games.
Sega is not the only speluitgever that in heavy weather condition. THQ made at the end of march already known that it must downsize. The American publisher should have room for 100 people dismiss, on the top of the 240 who earlier this year had to be reduced. Also Sony is going to lose weight. The consolebouwer close Zipper Interactive, known for the Socom games, which exclusively appeared on Sony’s PlayStation platform. The studio produced further online shooter MAG and made Unit 13, a shooter for Sony’s new handheld PS Vita.
First moving images of Aliens: Colonial Marines, by Sega spared is