Sega making huge cuts

Sega has announced that it plans to cut a large number of jobs as part of a restructuring and downsizing of its business. They are doing this in order to generate consistent profits and will be focusing on digital PC and smartphone releases and also merchandising around the Sonic brand.

The restructuring will include the closure of Sega's San Francisco U.S location and it's estimated that around 300 jobs will be lost. Employees will be offered early retirement packages and workers will be repositioned to better suit the companies digital plans. Sega had this to say about the cuts:

“Voluntary retirement will be solicited in the aforementioned businesses to be withdrawn or consolidated and downsized, while at the same time personnel will be repositioned in digital games and growth areas of Group mainly as development personnel, in order to establish a structure which can constantly generate profits.” 

Sega had a mixed year in 2014, with Alien: Isolation being released to mainly positive reviews, where as the companies mascots latest game Sonic Boom, failed to impress.