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* PLEASE NOTE: Sato makes some pretty strong & self-damning statements in this interview that reflect quite poorly on SEGA & the Saturn, even going so far as to say that SEGA failed to offer “fun“ games in regard to the Saturn. While these are very much not the views of SHIRO!, we will not edit or censor these statements in any way, and we hope that you understand. On February 1, 2018, Hideki Sato gave an interview over several days at the Hitotsubashi University Innovation Research Center as part of an oral history on the video games industry in Japan. SEGA-16 & MD SHOCK later translated much of the Japanese transcripts into English, and many great insights have since come from these interviews with Sato-san. If you would like to check out the original Japanese transcripts, here is a link to them below: Huge thanks to SEGA-16 & MD SHOCK for making this information accessible to English speaking audiences! MD SHOCK: SEGA-16:
