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Jeffery Misspeaks: Suzuki Still at SEGA

Tristan Oliver, Founder | August 12, 2008

Retains Title as Creative Officer

This is what we call “damage control.”

After widespread outrage at yesterday’s news Yu Suzuki was no longer with Sega, it turns out that Sega of America president Simon Jeffery misspoke.

The company today released a correction on an interview with Mr. Jeffery which said, in part, that he was no longer with the company, and was instead living out his days in China.

“I can safely say that Yu Suzuki is in fact still a Sega employee,” retracted Mr. Jeffery in a statement today.  He added that Mr. Suzuki has a creative officer role at Sega.

So, Shenmue faithful…you can get your hopes up again.

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5 Responses to “Jeffery Misspeaks: Suzuki Still at SEGA”

  1. Slingerland on August 12th, 2008 10.28 pm

    Simon Jeffery is such a tool.

    Check this shit out:
    http://www.sonicstadium.org/news/simon-jeffery-lives-in-glass-house-throws-stones

    http://www.sonicretro.org/2008/08/12/simon-jeffery-doesnt-think-old-sonic-is-cool/

    You’d think the guy would take a hint and just stop talking. He already called us all 13-year olds earlier this year, I mean, what else is he going to say? Who writes this tuff? xD

  2. Soap Scum on August 13th, 2008 7.23 pm

    SEGA US needs a new president.

  3. Soap Scum on August 13th, 2008 7.27 pm

    Wait a second, I know what happened to Sonic games lately. It’s because of this dick! Simon Jeffrey is the cause of this!

  4. Simon Jeffery: “A lot of crap coming out for the Wii” | tssz|news on August 14th, 2008 6.09 pm

    [...] into question the employment of Sega legend Yu Suzuki with the company and finally having to correct himself once [...]

  5. Suzuki: Shenmue Online “Pending” | tssz|news on September 22nd, 2008 5.22 am

    [...] between Famitsu’s Yoshiki Okamoto and Sega’s Yu Suzuki–who, we remind you, is still with the company–was the journalistic equivalent of a root canal.  Okamoto tried hard to pry some information [...]

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