{"id":35181,"date":"2012-03-31T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35181"},"modified":"2012-04-02T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:46:31","slug":"sega-is-sacking-employees-and-binning-titles-in-the-western-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35181-sega-is-sacking-employees-and-binning-titles-in-the-western-market","title":{"rendered":"Sega is sacking employees and binning titles in the Western market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sega is set to pass personal-belongings-boxes around their American and European offices in the near future, after an announcement of poor earnings for the year ending March 31 comes with promises of multiple job cuts.<\/p>\n<p>All this is in an effort to \u201cstreamline\u201d operations and focus its attention on long-running properties such as Sonic and Football Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Sega says its consumer business loss is due to \u201cthe challenging economic climate and significant changes in the home videogame software market environment in the US and Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, parent company Sega Sammy said, \u201cIt&#8217;s essential to streamline organisations in the field of home videogame software in the US and European markets while shifting to a structure that corresponds to [this] change in environment, including strengthening development in the field of digital content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This not only means a lot of people are getting canned, it also means there are a number of unnamed projects that are being scrapped as well. According to Sega, this will create &#8220;a smaller company positioned for sustained profitability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/342083\/sega-to-cancel-games-and-cut-jobs-as-business-underperforms\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looming losses means a &#8220;more streamlined&#8221; approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":34935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226,3,4],"tags":[31,3047,1109,3046,3045,1590],"class_list":["post-35181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-football-manager","tag-sega","tag-sega-job-cuts","tag-sega-sammy","tag-sonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35183,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35181\/revisions\/35183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}