Sega Of America Opens New Office In California

You guys are probably going to get your comments deleted but I totally agree, this isn't a good move. Look what it did to sony, they basic arnt a Japanese company anymore, very sad

Would be cool to see them team up with Kit and Krysta, now that Nintendo left from there.

Well hopefully that leads to more domestic jobs.

That sucks, I absolutely don't want Californians being involved with Atlus
The Future is looking very bleak for Atlus if the Californian office is gonna have any influence.

"Most esteemed brands...". Whoa somebody tell Utsumi-san to dial it back a bit, esteemed is a bit strong. Lets say..."most well known", as they're a company better known for publishing great games rather than actually making great games these days.

@Magician

What are some great SEGA and Atlus published games that aren’t developed by SEGA or Atlus? The only ones that come to mind for me are 13 Sentinels and Persona 5 Strikers. Most SEGA and Atlus games are internally developed.

Sega has been in Irvine for very long so there's nothing new about this. They probably just recently bought another office so to house Atlus next to them rather than having to travel to the Japanese ones which makes their job easier now.

@Ryan_Again I agree. I’ve spent a lot of time in California, and it’s the only state I would consider a “bad” place to live in America. The rest of it is honestly really nice and despite what the media says, is probably still my favorite country I’ve lived in. California just has a bunch of idiots in charge that are running it to the ground, a similar thing is actually happening in Berlin, and it hurts my heart because I lived there for a while.

@RushDawg Valkyria Chronicles 4, Sonic Mania, the Two Point series, the Total War series, Alien: Isolation, Demon Slayer, etc.

@Calbant Canada is just a bigger version of California and everyone thinks it’s perfect for some reason. It’s not. I’m honestly very happy I left… US is so much better in most aspects from healthcare to schooling to overall QOL, despite what the ehem, biased, media says. and I promise I’m not biased as I’ve lived in Canada, UK, Germany, and the US… We all just need to work together to remember what we have here and try to preserve what this great land was founded upon. Freedom, democracy, and the ability to speak freely. I hope you’re doing well in whatever plain of life you’re in right now. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Ryan_Again California still has this prestige no matter what situation California has currently.
The same thing applies to New York.

@Parker55 I have a friend who lives in Canada and he is having problems getting the medical help he needs. I agree in that I don’t know why people think it’s a perfect country to live in.
That’s awesome you’ve lived in multiple countries! I’ve only lived here in the US but I’ve visited Mexico several times since that’s where my mom was born.
Thank you! I hope life is going well for you too! I really do hope people work together more to help preserve what makes America so great

@Calbant Thank you! And yeah, lots of people praise Canada and I really don’t get it. It’s beautiful but it’s just so expensive and had really bad medical services… lots of Europe is similar I’ve heard. No country is perfect, but I just really love the US. Hope you’re doing well!

@Magician

Almost all of those games are internally-developed by SEGA.

Valkyria Chronicles 4 was made by SEGA.

The Two Point series was made by Two Point Studios which is a SEGA-owned studio.

Total War series and Alien Isolation were made by Creative Assembly which SEGA has owned since 2005.

The only externally developed games on your list are Sonic Mania and Demon Slayer. Which goes back to my original point that SEGA/Atlus are more developers than they are publishers.

It’s always so strange to see people dump on states. It’s like they hate their own country.

Lol why are people upset about this? Sega has always had offices in San Fransisco, that's why it appears in Sonic Adventure 2 and Crazy Taxi, it's part of Sega culture. They put the city in the Sonic movie because of its ties to the series. Lol at the people bringing up politics here.

@Parker55 yeah the medical services are pretty bad. During my 1st year of pharmacy school, we learned about the different health care systems around the world. The video we watched made it sound like ours is the worst one, but if you really research it, so many other countries have it way worse. You end up having to wait months to get treatment. That’s if it’s not denied outright. I agree the US isn’t perfect but it’s still an awesome country. Hope you’re doing well too!

@Calbant exactly! Thank you!!!

@MrHonest
Can you do this somewhere else? This is a silly place to air your grievances.

@Arkay
My apologies, it looks like the comments I was referring to have been removed, so I can't go back and check what they said, but as a non-American, when I see comments complaining about the Democrats, I usually assume it's a Republican making the comment

@MrHonest
It's not about free speech it's about breaking the community rules by being off topic and posting things that are likely to cause arguments. This is an article about Sega building a new headquarters, not democrats and progressives or whatever. I won't be posting in this thread anymore, I'm here for video games not boomer discussion hour.

Why do some people just insist on derailing comment sections? This isn’t Twitter, where anything goes.

I'm not looking forward to how moralistic the localizers are gonna become...

@pspooky I can't quite attest to the deleted comments, but I can definitely say some strong reactions are partly because of how Hollywood has been treating their consumer base, talking like they're holier than thou while calling the uninterested viewer "patently evil" or some nonsense because they didn't watch their show.