Sega has confirmed a round of layoffs at the Japanese publisher’s London offices. The announcement follows last year’s layoffs at Sega of America and recent restructuring of the company’s mobile business.
“Sega is in the process of consolidating certain functions of the Sonic and mobile departments within Sega of America, where the management and production for those areas of the business reside,” said a Sega spokesperson. “As part of that strategy, a limited number of redundancies have taken effect in our European office, based in London.”
Sega also closed offices in Europe and Australia in 2012 as part of a renewed focus on the Sonic, Aliens, Total War and Football Manager franchises, in addition to ‘developing new and existing content across digital platforms’.
Earlier this year, Sega parent Sega Sammy Holdings lowered the fiscal year’s net revenue forecast by nearly 30 per cent to 377 billion JPY, attributing the earnings drop to postponed sales in the company’s pachinko division.
Sega also acquired the assets of Index, bankrupt parent of RPG publisher and developer Atlus, in 2013.
