Sega CS3 (2008-2015)

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Sega CS3 (2008-2015)
Division of Sega
Founded: 2008-05-01
Defunct: 2015-04-01
Headquarters:
Japan
2008-05-01
2015-04-01

CS R&D Dept. #3[1][2] (第三CS研究開発部) was the third consumer-focused research and development department of Sega. It acted as a continuation of GE2 and GE3.

While it had some major franchises like Phantasy Star and Valkyria Chronicles, unlike CS1 and CS2, which had multiple sections dedicated to game design, programming or art, CS3 seems to have only had one section for each of these, and no known sound section. As a result, it had fewer people working to create games of their own. Instead, the department focused more on localizing and producing content made by other developers, including Imageepoch, Platinum Games and M2, and its game developers even worked with Sega AM2 to develop the console versions of Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA[3].

Free-to-Play and mobile games branched out to Online R&D. CS3 continued mostly as is when Sega Games was founded in 2015, but was slightly rebranded as CS Studio 3.

Sections

  • Produce Section (プロデュースセクション)[4][5][6]
  • Planning Section (企画セクション)[4]
  • Program Section (プログラムセクション)[7][8]
  • Localize Section (ローカライズセクション)[9][10]

Online R&D

  • Planning Section 1 (企画セクション1課)[11]

Members

Former Members

Softography


PlayStation 2

Nintendo DS

PlayStation Portable

Xbox 360

Xbox Live Arcade

Wii

WiiWare

PlayStation 3

PlayStation Network

Nintendo 3DS

PlayStation Vita

Xbox One

List of staff

References

  1. https://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2010/en/sessions/PG/C10_PR0001.html (Wayback Machine: 2021-01-22 23:35)
  2. http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2011/en/sessions/PG/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2011-09-09 03:46)
  3. @Mazin__ on Twitter (Wayback Machine: 2021-06-30 10:53)
  4. 4.0 4.1 http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/interview/572264.html (Wayback Machine: 2017-08-08 19:42)
  5. http://www.famitsu.com/news/201307/31037434.html (Wayback Machine: 2013-08-03 00:42)
  6. https://japan.cnet.com/article/35057602/ (Wayback Machine: 2021-01-19 09:26)
  7. https://www.hal.ac.jp/cross/report/2567 (Wayback Machine: 2017-08-21 08:45)
  8. http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2012/program/PG/index.html (Wayback Machine: 2012-06-27 15:10)
  9. http://getnews.jp/archives/28711 (Wayback Machine: 2009-09-11 10:59)
  10. http://cedec.cesa.or.jp/2010/program/BM/C10_P0201.html (Wayback Machine: 2011-09-10 05:32)
  11. https://www.segasammy.co.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/pdf/ja/ir/2013032q_businessreport_j_final.pdf (Wayback Machine: 2023-12-18 13:06)

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Timeline of Sega of Japan research and development divisions








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