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[edit] Question

Shouldn't the page be titled Sonic Team? - The T

[edit] English

Does Sonic Team have an english website? The link on the article's page goes to a japaneese website.

No, but you can use like Babelfish or have Google translate it for you. --Xeccos 01:43, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sonic Team in Japanese

The corporation, Sonic Team in Japanese is Sonikku-Tīmu (ソニク ティーム), because it's expressed in katakana. --PJ Pete

No, it's ソニックチーム in katakana. --Ja-tails 22:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, to tell you this, "chi" that replaces "ti" is an ancient thing on foreign words and is now rarely used to replace it after the sound "ti" was borrowed from foriegn languages. --PJ Pete

Doesn't matter. They use chi, so we have to stick to that for accuracy. Check the official website. - Zero1328 Talk? 22:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sonic Adventure 2/Battle

Is it me or did Sonic Team also develop Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. --Xeccos 01:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Nah, it wasn't you. You'd remember. 88.108.206.239 12:32, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] name

what's with name of this department? somewhere else in wikipedia (sorry, you have to search if you want to know where! ;P) i found they should be called Sega Studios USA, because this is the name they changed on from Team Sonic – here also such redirect leads. does mentioned mysterious article states wrong or this article is a bit out of date? 83.24.250.139 18:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] A lot of confusion between Sonic Team, Sonic Team USA and Sega Studios USA

I don't have clear if there are two Sonic Team groups (one for Japan and other for USA) and how they are being differentiated. What's Sega Studios USA then? This is a bigg mess.

I think this must be more clear and separate the article in more sections.

Some source that can help to understand this mess (or confuse even more): http://ghz.emulationzone.org/team.html http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=922778 http://www.mobygames.com/company/sonic-team/history http://www.mobygames.com/company/sega-studios-usa

Are there two studios actually? What's the final name of them? Please help explaining this mess, it's very unclear. I can help improving the article if needed.

-- Timofonic 09:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah there are 2 Sonic Team's. The original Sonic Team (Tokyo) and the San Francisco Sonic Team (Sega Studio USA or also known as Sonic Team USA) I already made an article for Sonic Team USA.S200048 14:24, 26 September 2007 (UTC)sonicteamUSA

[edit] AM8?

It's not a fact that Sonic Team was called Sega AM8.

The department was originally named CS3 (第三CS研究開発部), and changed to RD8 (第八ソフト研究開発部) in 1999. And then it became a company SONICTEAM, Inc.

Now it's been taken over by Sega and restructured. The brand "Sonic Team" is shared among some departments: GE1, GE3, Studio USA and Mobile.

So there is no fact that Sonic Team was called AM8. --Ja-tails 23:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

There are 2 sonic team studios. One in Tokyo ( Sonic Team) and one in San Francisco ( Sonic Team USA ) Oh and to clear up the confusion..... Sonic Team USA = Sega Studio USA I already made an article on Sega Studio USA.S200048 14:54, 9 September 2007 (UTC)s200048

[edit] Sonic Team today

As it stands things are very confusing in this article. From Sega#In-house_studios, Sonic Team Japan (AM8) are now G.E. Dept. #1 and Sonic Team USA are now Sega Studios USA.

So as there's now no such team as Sonic Team shouldn't we have seperate articles for G.E. Dept. #1 and Sega Studios USA? Sonic Team can redirect to GE1, as they are the historical Sonic Team. Also United Game Artists (who are now GE2) links to here at the moment, that should link to a seperate article about AM9/UGA/GE2. That way there would be a seperate article for each team and no confusion.Segafan2005 (talk) 19:45, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, Sega Studio USA was originally a seperate article. But someone said that it would be better if we merged it into one Sonic Team article. So that's why it happened. If you would like to discuss this issue with someone, discuss it with a user named user:Doktor Wilhelm. As he was the one who merged the Sonic Team USA and UGA articles into this one. Also, G.E. Dept. 1 is only the technical name for Sonic Team Japan. They're still known as "Sonic Team". Same goes for Sega Studio USA. They're still the US branch of Sonic Team.--S200048 (talk) 14:07, 31 March 2008 (UTC)s200048

There should be an explanation of that because the Sega article names the main divisions as Global Entertainment Software, Amusement Software and New Entertainment. There are no articles or re-directs for those. If they are still officially called Sonic Team as well I don't have a problem with Sega Studio USA and UGA being in this article but I was under the impression that Sonic Team was just a brand name that can be put on anything now. I just thought it could do with being made clearer. Is there anything official from Sega written about the company's current structure? Segafan2005 (talk) 15:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

lol, actually Amusement Software and New Entertainment aren't part of Sonic Team. G.E. Dept 1, Sega Studio USA, and UGA are the only divisions that are part of Sonic Team. All the others such as AV, Smilebite, etc. aren't part of Sonic Team.--72.82.192.78 (talk) 21:31, 31 March 2008 (UTC)s200048

I didn't say they were, I meant the main divisions of Sega. Segafan2005 (talk) 10:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)