SEGA Studios USA
Moby ID: 7292
- Sonic Team USA - Former company name.
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Sonic Team USA was founded in 1999 when 12 members of Sonic Team, including the current director Takashi Iizuka, moved from Tokyo to San Francisco to work for six months on the localization of the Dreamcast title Sonic Adventure for an international release.
Afterwards, the Western development branch was officially established. The original team was first known as the internal SEGA development division SEGA AM8 R&D Division, but received a new name after developing the successful Sonic franchise.
After working on the international version for Sonic Adventure, Sonic Team USA tested ChuChu Rocket! for an international release. The first project where the team was involved with development working at the USA branch was the Dreamcast title Sonic Adventure 2. Later, they also worked on Sonic Heroes, and Shadow the Hedgehog and the Wii game NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.
Meanwhile, the company's name has been changed to SEGA Studio USA.
Credited on 7 Games from 1999 to 2007
| NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (2007 on Wii) |
| Sonic Rivals 2 (2007 on PSP) |
| Shadow the Hedgehog (2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube...) |
| Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (2001 on GameCube) |
| Sonic Adventure 2: 10th Anniversary Birthday Pack (2001 on Dreamcast) |
| Sonic Adventure 2 (2001 on Windows, Dreamcast, Xbox 360...) |
| Sonic Adventure (1998 on Dreamcast, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) |
History +
- 1999
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Sonic Team USA is founded when 12 members of Sonic Team move from Tokyo to San Francisco.
Trivia +
Despite the team having original Japanese members from Sonic Team's Tokyo branch, there are also a two non-japanese artists that work at the studio.
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Frequent Collaborators
Companies- 6 games with SEGA of America, Inc.
- 5 games with SEGA Corporation
- 2 games with SEGA Europe Ltd.
- 1 game with BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Germany GmbH
- 1 game with Visual Concepts Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Sonic Team
- 1 game with Tectoy S.A.
- 1 game with Bandai Namco Entertainment UK Ltd.
- 1 game with Valve Corporation
- 6 games with Keith Palmer
- 6 games with Hiroshi Nishiyama
- 6 games with Jun Senoue
- 6 games with Takashi Iizuka
- 6 games with Kazuyuki Hoshino
- 5 games with Nobuhiko Honda
- 5 games with Osamu Shibamiya
- 5 games with Masanao Maeda
- 5 games with Masanobu Yamamoto
- 5 games with Takeshi Sakakibara
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