Creative Cat Productions | Why did SEGA just launch a brand new game studio in Sapporo, Hokkaido? @creativecatproductions | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 45 minutes ago.
Last December, quite clandestinely, SEGA-Sammy revealed that they had established a brand new game development studio out in Sapporo, Japan. The news came without warning and the new company already had a brand new President and CEO in Takaya Segawa, a long time veteran of classic SEGA who once worked on the Mega Drive and Saturn. This fact is probably the best clue as to what SEGA is actually up to in the far northern regions of Japan, because for the last 12 years Segawa has been the head producer of the extremely popular Phantasy Star Online 2….well, extremely popular in Japan. Perhaps, in conjunction with a recent alliance with Microsoft, SEGA has plans to increase the western usage of that game? Could be.
As always, thank you very much for watching. Stay tuned for more.
- CCP Management
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As promised, here are a few useful links from SEGA's corporte website:
segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/release/20211101_ms_mou_e.pdf
https://sega--sapporo--studio-co-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
https://sega--sapporo--studio-co-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
https://sega--sapporo--studio-co-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/release/20210806_presentation_e_final.pdf
Last December, quite clandestinely, SEGA-Sammy revealed that they had established a brand new game development studio out in Sapporo, Japan. The news came without warning and the new company already had a brand new President and CEO in Takaya Segawa, a long time veteran of classic SEGA who once worked on the Mega Drive and Saturn. This fact is probably the best clue as to what SEGA is actually up to in the far northern regions of Japan, because for the last 12 years Segawa has been the head producer of the extremely popular Phantasy Star Online 2….well, extremely popular in Japan. Perhaps, in conjunction with a recent alliance with Microsoft, SEGA has plans to increase the western usage of that game? Could be.
As always, thank you very much for watching. Stay tuned for more.
- CCP Management
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As promised, here are a few useful links from SEGA's corporte website:
segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/release/20211101_ms_mou_e.pdf
https://sega--sapporo--studio-co-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
https://sega--sapporo--studio-co-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
https://sega--sapporo--studio-co-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/release/20210806_presentation_e_final.pdf
![Evercade EXP’s bizarre launch: a tale of theft, delays, and many problems [re-upload]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/98-vKZkPEtU/hqdefault.jpg "Evercade EXP’s bizarre launch: a tale of theft, delays, and many problems [re-upload]
Apologies to all our viewers who already watched this video or left a comment. We had to take down and re-edit our original video due to a copyright takedown for some of the wrestling footage we employed for an analogy about Blaze Entertainment’s performance over the last few months. Here is the new video, which is very similar.
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On December 15th 2022….weeks late….the Evercade EXP was finally launched. However, despite the extra time, it’s apparent that many of the new consoles suffer from a wide range of disappointing defects. The batteries offer far less juice than advertised; it takes hours to charge; cartridges are getting stuck in the unit; overheating issues have been widely reported, and some cases are so bad that its warping the plastic.
Making matters worse, and bizarre even, an entire truck (or lory) containing thousands of EXP Limited Editions intended for the US and UK market was stolen on December 7th, meaning that many customers were unable to receive their special orders in time for Christmas. Indeed, despite ordering their special editions on June 1st 2022, these customers won’t receive anything until March 2023….at the earliest.
Yet, despite all this madness, Blaze hasn’t issued much of a response to address the defects and there are reports that getting a refund from funstock is a lot harder than one might expect. This is a terrible situation for Blaze and a moment that could either make or break their future as an exciting alternative to the mainstream console gaming market. So much of what they have done has been so good, so it’s been disappointing to see them hit the canvas this hard. Perhaps its time for a recall, and a reboot of this promising new console.
- CCP Management")
