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431: 538: 40: 4211: 283: 513:. According to Ohshima, Sega was looking for a game that would sell well in the United States as well as in Japan. Ohshima and Naka already had the game and character ready, with Ohshima having worked with Sega's toy and stationery department on design ideas. Ohshima claims that the progress they had already made encouraged the company to select their proposal, as theirs was the only team to have put in a high amount of time and effort. This left him confident their proposal would be selected. 6210: 4766: 4754: 390:(2001). With Sega's divestiture of its studios into separate companies, R&D No. 8 became SONICTEAM Ltd. in 2000, with Naka as CEO and Sonic Team USA as its subsidiary. Sega's financial troubles led to several major structural changes in the early 2000s; the United Game Artists studio was absorbed by Sonic Team in 2003, and Sonic Team USA became Sega Studios USA in 2004. After 1086: 868:. Prior to the merger, Sega began the process of re-integrating its subsidiaries into the main company. Sonic Team USA became Sega Studios USA, while SONICTEAM Ltd. became Sega's Global Entertainment 1 research and development division (GE1). The team is still referred to as Sonic Team. As of 2005, senior Sega figures including 1314:. In 2008, Sega Studios USA merged with Sonic Team, making Iizuka the head of Sonic Team and a vice president of product development for Sega. In 2016, Iizuka relocated to Los Angeles to oversee development with the goal of making Sega's studios in Los Angeles "a centralized hub for the global brand". 792:. The company changes and lack of a Sega console affected Sonic Team; according to Naka, in a 2006 interview, "Our approach was always to create strategic title concepts, which included the hardware. We do somewhat miss the idea of being able to address these constant challenges." Yasuhara left to join 1445:
with the addition of voice acting and a greater focus on plot and character narrative changed Sonic into "a flat, lifeless husk of a character, who spits out slogans and generally has only one personality mode, the radical attitude dude, the sad recycled image of vague '90s cultural concept." Sega of
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Sega held an internal competition to submit characters designs for a mascot. Ohshima designed a blue hedgehog named Sonic, who was inserted into a prototype game created by Naka. The Sonic design was refined to be less aggressive and appeal to a wider audience before the division began development on
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Around this time, CS3 was renamed to Sega Research and Development Department 8 (R&D #8). While sometimes referred to as AM8 or "Sega-AM8", based on the R&D structure being titled the Sega Amusement Machine Research and Development (AM) teams, Sonic Team focused solely on home console games.
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Sonic Team USA, later Sega Studios USA, was a division of Sega and of Sonic Team while Sonic Team was a subsidiary company. It was founded when twelve Sonic Team members, including Takashi Iizuka, relocated to San Francisco, California, in 1999, and was a subsidiary of SONICTEAM, Ltd. by 2000. The
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Sega began to restructure its studios in October 2000 and spun off its software divisions into subsidiary companies. When the departments took new names, Naka felt it important to preserve the Sonic Team brand name, and the division's new legal name as a company was SONICTEAM, Ltd. Naka was
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added to the series was problematic, with Whitehead describing the characters as "padding". In 2015, Sega CEO Haruki Satomi acknowledged that Sega had "partially betrayed" the trust of the longtime fans of their games and hoped to focus on quality over quantity.
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was released in 1991 and proved a major success, contributing to millions of sales of the Genesis. The development team took the name Sonic Team for the game's release. Naka has referred to Sonic Team as only a "team name" at this point.
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is considered one of the most important moments in video game history, as it propelled Genesis sales and displaced Nintendo as the leading video game company. Sonic Team have also developed a wide variety of other games, including
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By 2010, Sonic Team had become part of CS Research and Development No. 2 (CS2), Sega Studios USA had been reintegrated into the Japanese team, and Iizuka had become the head of the department. After a series of poorly received
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in Japan. Naka returned to Japan in late 1994 to become the head of CS3, later renamed R&D No. 8. During this time, the division took on the Sonic Team brand but developed games that do not feature Sonic, such as
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in 1994, Naka returned to Japan, having been offered a role as a producer. He was placed in charge of Sega's Consumer Development Department 3, also known as CS3. Naka was reunited with Ohshima and brought with him
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joined to supervise Naka and Ohshima and develop levels, and became the lead designer. He satisfied Naka's request for a simple, one-button design by having Sonic do damage by jumping.
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games, which were more American. The sound and CGI were completed by Sonic Team in Japan, while Sega Studios USA handled the rest of the development for the 2007 release.
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Early in 2003, Sega president Hideki Sato and COO Tetsu Kamaya announced they were stepping down from their roles, with Sato being replaced by Hisao Oguchi, the head of
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were reporting to Naka; according to Takashi Yuda, he was involved in all Sega game development. Naka announced his departure on 8 May 2006 and formed a new studio,
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and character that could appeal to an older demographic than preteens, demonstrate the capabilities of the Genesis, and ensure commercial success in North America.
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brand, while retaining the modern Sonic design. Iizuka stated that doing new things with the franchise has had good and bad points at times. Sonic Team's first
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team worked on game development, translation, and market studies in the United States, until they returned to Japan and merged back into Sonic Team in 2008.
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and began developing games for multiple platforms. From 2000, Sonic Team in Japan began to release fewer games, with a few releases such as the puzzle game
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purchased Sega in 2004, Sonic Team was reincorporated to become Sega's GE1 research and development department. Naka departed during the development of
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game for the Saturn, but development moved to the Dreamcast to align with Sega's plans. Iizuka led the project; Iizuka had long wanted to create a
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Despite a number of well-received games, Sega discontinued the Dreamcast in 2001 and exited the hardware business. Sega transitioned into a
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in 2000. Iizuka felt it was important to retain the original game's concepts while developing new mechanics, and released it on the
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intended as an elite studio combining the design philosophies of American and Japanese developers. While Naka and Yasuhara developed
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described the 3D Sonic games as "20-odd years of slowly accumulating bullshit", and that unlike Sonic's main competitor, Nintendo's
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was targeted at older players and featured different gameplay styles, including the use of guns and different endings to the game.
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After SONICTEAM, Ltd. merged back into Sega in 2004, Sonic Team USA was renamed Sega Studios USA. The division's next project was
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was critically panned for its mature themes and level design, but was a commercial success, selling at least 1.59 million units.
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to the character's appeal to children. Naka's goal was to appeal to the largest audience possible and to appeal to children.
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Sonic Team has developed a number of video games, with many of them becoming bestsellers. The studio is best known for its
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project began with just Naka and Ohshima, but grew to involve two programmers, two sound engineers, and three designers.
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that Sonic Team had prioritized shipping games over quality, and had not had enough involvement in later third-party
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The initial team, formed in 1990, comprised staff from Sega's Consumer Development division, including programmer
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after Sega discontinued the Dreamcast. However, originality remained important for Naka; Sonic Team developed
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games over such a long period, especially between 1991 and 2000. Some Sonic Team games, such as the original
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games, focusing on gameplay more similar to the Genesis games to which even casual gamers could adapt.
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series of platform games, which account for the majority of Sonic Team's work; the 1991 release of
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was released on 23 June 2001, and was ported to the GameCube. The next Sonic Team USA project was
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in 1998, some Sonic Team staff moved to the United States to form Sonic Team USA and develop
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game in fifteen years following nearly two decades of mixed reviews for the franchise. At
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that made use of the Dreamcast's online capabilities. In 2000, Sonic Team launched the
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to consoles and was the first online RPG for many players. According to Sean Smith of
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game developed for multiple platforms. Sonic Team USA took a different approach with
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Naoto Ohshima (2013). Les Editions Pix'n Love (ed.). "Interview With Naoto Ôshima".
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Until 2000, media referred to Sonic Team's designation as both R&D #8 and AM8.
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and felt the Dreamcast was powerful enough to achieve his vision. The game became
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installed as the CEO, and Sonic Team USA became a subsidiary of the new company.
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releases, Sonic Team refocused on speed and more traditional side-scrolling in
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Yuji Naka (2013). Les Editions Pix'n Love (ed.). "Interview With Yuji Naka".
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was hired into Sega's Consumer Development division. His first project was
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Sega and Sonic Team have been frequently criticized for their handling of
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games were released for the Saturn. Since Sonic Team was preoccupied with
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Lomas, Ed (December 2000). Chrismas, Warren (ed.). "Sonic Team Player".
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co-developed by Sonic Team and Traveller's Tales. The only other Saturn
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in March 2019, Iizuka confirmed Sonic Team was also working on a new
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acknowledging that Sonic Team had prioritized shipping over quality.
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was also designed to have a more European feel, in contrast to the
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was aimed at a broad audience of young and adult players, while
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During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a rivalry formed between
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Iizuka has said Sonic Team would be open to developing a third
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created as part of their training process. For his next game,
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developer Christian Whitehead said they felt the number of
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in 3D never had a "transcendental hit". Zolani Stewart of
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games were developed by Naka and Yasuhara in America at
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development, he exchanged design ideas with Ohshima.
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add-on. Though Naka was not directly involved in the
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division. Sonic Team is best known for its namesake
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