Far from being a negligible site with nearly 2 million inhabitants, its universities and vocational schools, Sapporo was therefore chosen by Sega for the opening of this new base, soberly called Sega Sapporo Studio. Opened last December 1, this studio will be dedicated to game development and debugging under the direction of Takaya Segawa, a veteran of the house since 1992 who has worked on Phantasy Star Online 2 as chief producer and on a number of games. little-known baseball and football here. A former head of development for consumer games and network games, he has been a senior executive at Sega since last spring.
“Sega Sapporo Studio was founded to ensure a stable and high-quality line of development in response to the global expansion of the video game market.By establishing a studio away from its Tokyo bases, Sega intends to expand employment opportunities for those who wish to work in their home prefecture, but also to attract employees who choose to return to their prefecture. origin or even allow the inhabitants of Sapporo who want to change prefecture to find another position at Sega.
An initiative welcomed by Katsuhiro Akimoto, Mayor of Sapporo, who sees this studio as an ideal target for students and children who aspire to work in the community. Sega has not indicated how many people it intends to recruit to feed this new base. As of September 30, 2020, Sega had 3,238 employees.
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