edge-online.com - 8/13/2009
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Sega president Mike Hayes says the publisher will continue to take risks on the Wii by releasing core titles for the platform.
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kotaku.com - 8/12/2009
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kotaku.com —
Kotaku sat with the new chief of Sega's
American and European divisions yesterday to get an update...
on everything from Aliens to Yakuza. Only on his new job for about two and a half weeks, Mike Hayes is the man who now oversees Sega West, the ...
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Sega Updates Us On Wii Strategy, Aliens, "Sega-ness" [Sega]
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Sega "Can Take More Risks On The Wii"
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Despite lackluster sales of games like MadWorld and The Conduit , Sega isn't ready to give up on making "adult" games for the Wii just yet, says president Mike Hayes. Speaking with Wired , Sega president & COO Mike Hayes that even though MadWorld and The Conduit had underperformed, "You'll see more games in that genre coming from us." That isn't to say that Hayes isn't disappointed in the numbers he's seen for MadWorld - he's just not ready to write them off as just being due to Wii owners not wanting to play more mature-oriented games: The thing that we're saying is, Sega would be extremely arrogant to have a title that didn't do as well as we ...
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Sad Chao is well aware of the risks
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Sega Europe's chief operating officer Mike Hayes has been promoted to president of Sega of America, completing an internal shake-up at the publisher's European business, SEGA has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz.
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Another disaster for Sega
bruceongames.com 8/3/2009 —
We get used to reading these . Sega software sales drop by 60.5% for their Q1 ‘09 . And they lost $108 million in the three months. What does this tell us?:
Sega released less skus than the comparable quarter in ‘08. The AAA boxed part of our industry is reliant on revenue ...
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