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Sega Teams Up to Form New Company

By: Christian Nutt September 30, 2002 10:25 AM PDT
Today Sega announced a new company, formed jointly with Japanese publishing house D3 Publisher, named 3D-AGES, Inc. 3D-AGES has started with 10 million Yen initial assets, 51% from Sega and 49% from D3 Publisher.
D3 Publisher is best known for publishing the Simple 1500 series of PlayStation games, a lineup of simple, bargain-priced (1500 Yen, or around US$12) software that has proven extremely popular, with 102 games currently released. Additionally, they've brought out a Simple 2000 series for PlayStation 2, and even publish some full-price games (like the recent and quite popular Project Minerva.)

3D-AGES (Clever name, eh? Read it backwards) will be concerned with sharing resources to publish bargain priced games for the PS2 in Japan and abroad, although no specific plans or target countries (outside of Japan, of course) are yet announced. They intend to increase the market for bargain games, which is already fairly healthy as it stands, if the Simple 1500 and competitor Success' SuperLite 1500 series are any indication.

We don't yet know how this company will affect the releases of Sega and D3P's products, nor do we know anything about their plans for overseas markets. This is a bold and potentially interesting move nonetheless. The most important fact in the press release is that the company intends to use Sega's "abudant contents and character assets" along with D3P's expertise in the bargain software market to create products. Does this mean that we'll be seeing classic Sega games on the PS2, or new games starring Sega heroes of yore? Stay tuned.

Thanks to Paynie for this info (he posted it in the gen ps2)

So long as SEGA survive, I will be happy. It is a massive shame that we no longer have any SEGA branded consoles, as these consoles have provided us with the best games known to man. FACT. And now they are no more!

The evil bigwigs at SONY should be ashamed of themselves for killing off the SEGA console legacy. Ba****ds!

Hey the ps2 is actually one of the best its just that stupid xbox that i really hate.