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October 30, 2000

Sega games on PS2?
Posted by @ 7:28 PM, EST
In a financial report Sega today released this could be found:

Sega tried to calm concerns by announcing a far-reaching new business strategy, including a future plan to provide its game software to rival makers' consoles.``We are already in talks with a few foreign firms,'' Sato said when asked about licensees. He declined to give details.

That transformation into a software provider from a hardware maker marked a drastic, and welcome, policy shift, analysts said.
Sega declined to specify for which rival game consoles it plans to make software, and emphasized it would not withdraw from the Dreamcast hardware business.

``We applaud the company's decision to shift its focus to providing content and away from the loss-making home game hardware business even though it isn't pulling completely out of hardware,'' said Nomura Securities analyst Yuta Sakuai
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