Sega Studios To Be Amalgamated In Sammy Merger

jasoncart writes "News from Japan today informs us that the Sega-Sammy merger is progressing apace ahead of the October completion date, with the announcement of new appointments at the holding firm, and news that 'Sega's seven internal divisions, including famous studios such as AM2 and Sonic Team, will be amalgamated ahead of the merger.' Sammy boss Hajime Satomi argues: 'I feel that Sega has high individual capabilities, but it's too separated into different subsidiaries... It's about time that we returned back to the old Sega' - there's also a new company logo for the holding company. At a time of great change for Sega, the only thing now certain is this great shift, with which Sammy aims to push Sega back into profitability."

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Bring Back The Old Sega

[MBCook]

Bringing back the old Sega is fine with me. Let's get a really good Sonic game for the 'cube (or PS2 or anything else). The reviews I saw for the latest Sonic game said that the speed sequences were fantastic, but everythin in between wasn't very good at all. Bring me a game the quality of Sonic 2 or 3. And bring back the Sega attitude. Sega used to be "hip". All their commercials had the "Sega scream", which I liked. When you start to play a game, show the little Sega logo like you used to get on the Genesis where a female voice sings "Sega". Bring them back to who they were.

Today, Sega doesn't seem like much to me. They make a Sonic game once and a while, and they make sports games. What else do they do? Sure they released Toejam & Earl III (which wasn't supposed to be too hot), or occational House of the Dead sequels, but let's get them making a bunch of games again. They seem to be stuck in sequel-ville with many other parts of the industry.

If it makes Sega better, I'm all for it.

But get a better logo. Use the old Sega logo from the 16bit days.