In an interview with video game magazine Weekly Famitsu, Sega Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi recently talked about the company?s current status and their plans for the future.
Satomi made a lasting impression last week with his appearance at Sega FES 2018 in Tokyo, as he opened the event to show a series of new games among other exciting news. These included a new Sakura Wars game, a remastered version of Shenmue I & II, and other plans scheduled for the coming months.
Now the CEO confidently disclosed how his company managed to remain profitable in all regions for two consecutive years. These profits were spread across multiple business segments including arcade, smartphones, consoles, PC, merchandise, and animation. Having achieved this level of success, Sega is looking forward to new challenges and experiences for the company and, by extension, for gamers. Before moving forward, however, Satomi acknowledged that his employees were lacking spirit and confidence, prompting him to extend two messages to everyone. The first message reminded employees to regain pride to keep supporting their many fans. The second was to create and continuously provide new, exciting content to said fans.
To help cultivate a winning mindset, he urges producers to help release a game only if they?re absolutely confident in the product, regardless of sales expectations. In fact, he strongly believes the company is slowly regaining the trust of consumers, and their newfound commitment naturally play...