{"id":301760,"date":"2026-02-17T02:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301760\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:01:11","slug":"ex-sega-pres-hideki-sato-architect-of-mega-drive-dies-at-75-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301760\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Sega Pres. Hideki Sato, Architect of Mega Drive, Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Economy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Technology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tFeb 17, 2026 09:24 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Former Sega Corp. President Hideki Sato, who helped develop the firm&#8217;s flagship gaming consoles, including the Mega Drive, died at 75 on Friday, the company said on its official X account Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A native of the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, Sato studied electronic engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan College before joining Sega Enterprises Ltd., now Sega Corp., in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>He served as chief developer of the SC-3000 home gaming computer released in 1983. Thereafter, he was integral to the development of all Sega home gaming consoles, including the Mega Drive and the Sega Saturn.<\/p>\n<p>Sato assumed the presidency in 2001, when Sega announced its withdrawal from the home gaming console business, and led the company&#8217;s strategic shift to a software maker. He became Sega chairman in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2955959.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2955959\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2955959.jpg\" data-libid=\"2955959\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Economy Technology Feb 17, 2026 09:24 (JST) Tokyo, Feb. 17 (Jiji Press)&#8211;Former Sega Corp. President Hideki&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,23484,80],"class_list":["post-301760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jiji-press","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}