Amusement Vision

Founded: 2000-04-21^[1]

Defunct: 2004-07-01^[2], 2005-04-01 (as Division)

Headquarters:

Japan

2000-04-21

2004-07-01

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New Entertainment R&D Dept. →

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Amusement Vision (アミューズメントヴィジョン) was a research and development division within Sega.

It was created in 2000 to act as a replacement for Sega Software R&D Dept. #4 (formerly known as Sega AM11)^[3]. Just like the newly formed WOW Entertainment, Hitmaker and Sega Rosso, Amusement Vision were given a more home-centric purpose, in addition to catering the arcade market.

Sega AM2's Toshihiro Nagoshi managed the studio, with his brainchild Daytona USA seeing an Amusement Vision-led upgrade in the form of Daytona USA 2001.Amusement Vision's big success was the Monkey Ball franchise, one of the most notable post-Dreamcast successes. They were also responsible for the critically acclaimed F-Zero GX. Based on these successes, Nagoshi was allowed to further develop home console projects in the future, while other studios returned to be arcade-centric.

Following a corporate restructure, Amusement Vision would become New Entertainment R&D Dept. in 2005.

Current members

Former members

Masanori Onogi

Softography

NAOMI

Slashout (2000)

GameCube

Xbox

Spikeout: Battle Street (2005)
Super Monkey Ball Deluxe (2005)

Game Boy Advance

Super Monkey Ball Jr. (2002)
Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (2004)

Magazine articles

Main article: Amusement Vision/Magazine articles.

External links

Homepage (Japanese; appears to be very incomplete and outdated)
- Archived on 29 June 2004 (Internet Archive)

References

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Domestic Sega studios
CSK													Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Enterprises, Ltd.										Sega Corporation										Sega Games & Interactive
Sega R&D 1				Sega AM1					R&D #1	WOW Entertainment			Sega WOW	Sega AM1
Studio 128		Sega R&D 8		Sega AM2					R&D #2	AM2 of CRI	Sega-AM2			Sega AM2
								Sega AM11	R&D #4	Amusement Vision				New Entertainment		Sega CS1
																		Ryu ga Gotoku Studio
												DigitalRex		AM Plus
			Sega AM3						R&D #3	Hitmaker				Sega AM3
							AM Annex		R&D #5	Sega Rosso
				Sega AM4						Sega Mechatro							Product R&D
																			N. Pro. R&D
				Sega AM5						Mirai R&D				Family Entertainment
				Sega AM6
Sega R&D 2				Sega CS			Sega CS1		R&D #6	Smilebit				Sega Sports Design
				Megasoft		Team Andromeda
							Sega PC											Online R&D
							Sega CS2		R&D #7	Overworks				GE2		Sega CS3
							Sonic Team
							Sega CS3		R&D #8					GE1		Sega CS2
														GE3
									R&D #9	United Game Artists
	Sega Sound Team
					Sega Digital Media						Wave Master			Wave Master (label)
														Mobile Content R&D					Sega Networks
															Visual Entertainment			Marza Animation Planet

[:File:IR_EN_2003-07-30.pdf_p4-1] File:IR EN 2003-07-30.pdf, page 4

[:File:IR_EN_2004-05-18.pdf_p-2] File:IR EN 2004-05-18.pdf

[:File:DCM_JP_20001013_2000-32.pdf_p91-3] File:DCM JP 20001013 2000-32.pdf, page 91

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Amusement Vision

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Contents

Current members

Former members

Softography

NAOMI

NAOMI GD-ROM

NAOMI 2

NAOMI 2 GD-ROM

Hikaru

Triforce

Dreamcast

PlayStation 2