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Sega is a Japanese multinational video game software developer and arcade company headquartered in Japan who are best recognised for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. They were initially involved in the video game hardware industry by producing its own brand of hardware consoles such as the Sega Mega Drive, (Sega Genesis in North America and PAL territories), Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast, however, due to underwhelming sales of the Dreamcast and competition from Sony’s PlayStation, Sega abandoned the console hardware industry on January 31st 2001 by ceasing production of the Dreamcast and other Sega consoles prior to the Dreamcast. Sega shifted their focus from hardware and console development to being a software developer and publisher for contemporary third party gaming consoles for international markets.

Once Sega acquired Atlus in 2013 through the purchase of Index Corporation, it became the parent company for Atlus.

Merger with Atlus
In June 2013, Atlus parent company, Index Corporations faced bankruptcy of ¥24.5 billion. As a result, they were placed on the public stock exchange. On 18 September 2013, Sega won the bid to acquire index. As a result, Atlus became a subsidiary for Sega, however, Sega stated that the changes within Atlus to be integrated into Sega were minimal and that that Atlus would not be affected by the changes from a creative or developmental perspective. During this time, Sega changed the name of Index Corporation to Sega Dream Corporation. On 18th February 2014, Sega separated Index Corporation from Atlus to be a subsidiary of its own, and within that process, Sega Dream Corporation was renamed back to Index Corporation. The reformed Atlus would include Index Digital Media which would be renamed as Atlus U.S.A. On March 31st 2016, Sega announced that all Atlus game’s that are released in the United States will be published by Sega in order to streamline the associations between Atlus and Sega.