Sega CS3 (2008-2015)

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Sega CS3 (2008-2015) Division of Sega
Founded: 2008-05-01
Defunct: circa 2018
Merged into: Online R&D
Headquarters: Japan

CS R&D Dept. #3 (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.

Free-to-Play and mobile games branched out to Online R&D.

Sega CS3 was dissolved sometime 2018 and absorbed into CS1 and CS2.

Sections

• Produce Section (プロデュースセクション)
• Planning Section (企画セクション)
• Program Section (プログラムセクション)
• Localize Section (ローカライズセクション)

Online R&D

• Planning Section 1 (企画セクション1課)

Members

• Akira Nishino (Head of Studio)
• Hirotaka Kanezawa
• Juro Watari
• Kagasei Shimomura
• Kazuhiro Matsuta
• Makoto Suzuki
• Masayuki Kawabata
• Rieko Kodama
• Ryutaro Nonaka
• Takaharu Tereda
• Takeshi Ozawa
• Tetsuo Shinyu
• Tsuyoshi Sewada
• Yoshiaki Endo
• Yosuke Okunari
• Youichi Shimosato

Former Members

• Akio Setsumasa
• Takao Miyoshi
• Tetsu Okano
• Satoshi Sakai
• Seiji Hayashi
• Shinji Motoyama
• Shuntaro Tanaka

Softography

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PlayStation 2

• Sega Ages 2500 (2008) (with M2)
• NiGHTS into Dreams... (2008) (with Sega Studios China)

Nintendo DS

• Bleach: The 3rd Phantom (2008)
• Phantasy Star Zero (2008)
• PictoImage (2008) (with Skonec)
• Sands of Destruction (2008) (with Imageepoch)
• 7th Dragon (2009) (with Imageepoch)
• Infinite Space (2010) (with Platinum Games)
• Shining Force Feather (2009) (with Flight-Plan)

PlayStation Portable

• Phantasy Star Portable (2008) (with Alfa System)
• 7th Dragon 2020 (2011) (with Imageepoch)
• 7th Dragon 2020-II (2013) (with Imageepoch)
• Shining Ark (2013) (with Media.Vision)

Xbox 360

• Bayonetta (2009) (with Platinum Games)
• Dreamcast Collection (2010) (with Sega Studios China)
• Vanquish (2010) (with Platinum Games)

Xbox Live Arcade

• Dreamcast Collection (2010) (with Sega Studios China)
• Guardian Heroes (2011) (with Treasure)
• Sega Ages Online (2012) (with M2)
• Sega Heritage (2012) (with Sega Studios China)

Wii

• Bleach: Versus Crusade (2008) (with Treasure)
• Let's Tap (2008) (with Prope)
• Madworld (2009) (with Platinum Games)

WiiWare

• Chindouchuu! Pole no Daibouken (2009)

PlayStation 3

• Bayonetta (2009) (with Platinum Games)
• Resonance of Fate (2010) (with tri-Ace)
• Vanquish (2010) (with Platinum Games)
• Shining Resonance (2014) (with Media.Vision)

PlayStation Network

• Dreamcast Collection (2010) (with Sega Studios China)
• Sega Ages Online (2012) (with M2)
• Sega Heritage (2012) (with Sega Studios China)

Nintendo 3DS

• 3D Classics (2013-2015) (with M2)
• Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives (2014) (with M2)
• Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives 2 (2015) (with M2)
• Sega 3D Fukkoku Archives 3: Final Stage (2016) (with M2)

PlayStation Vita

• Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F (2013) (with Sega AM2)
• Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax (2014) (with Ecole Software)
• Phantasy Star Nova (2014) (with tri-Ace)

Xbox One

• Tembo the Badass Elephant (2015) (with Game Freak)

List of staff

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References

https://www13.atwiki.jp/game_staff/pages/603.html#id_3d7108ad