SPORTS INTERACTIVE
ANNOUNCES SEGA DEAL
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[ February 12th 2004 ]
Sports
Interactive has announced a five year publishing
deal with SEGA Europe to include Football Manager
2005, the next instalment of the virtual soccer
game previously published by Eidos plc. Although
Eidos retains the rights to the name Championship
Manager, the source code and football database
remains the property of Sports Interactive, and
will be ploughed into their upcoming Football
Manager game.
Naoya
Tsurumi, President and COO, SEGA Europe Ltd, commented,
"SEGA Europe's relationship with SI is a significant
partnership for both companies. SEGA is looking
forward to growing its base of market-specific
products outside Japan, and signing one of the
most important developers in the UK underlines
our strong commitment to this."
"We are
absolutely delighted to have signed a long-term
deal with one of the biggest players in the global
games business," added Miles Jacobson, Managing
Director, Sports Interactive. "We're justifiably
proud of what we've achieved with our previous
games and business relationships, but we believe
that this new agreement will take us to even higher
levels. With both Football Manager 2005 and Eastside
Hockey Manager due for release within a matter
of months, we're confident that 2004 will be just
the first of many successful years for Sports
Interactive and SEGA."
Matthew
Woodley, European Marketing Director, SEGA Europe
Ltd, added, "We are delighted to extend our relationship
with Sports Interactive. We're really excited
to be working with them with one of the most important
PC games ever and doubly excited to be able to
help them achieve their goal of worldwide distribution.
Football Manager 2005 is going to be a huge hit
this year and something we're going to have a
lot of fun working with."
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