It appears however that Sega only has problems with their Arcade branch: the company owns and operates 450 arcades in Japan and it appears they no longer pay off, since they’ll reduce the number to 340. Still, the publishers don’t have too much hope that the Arcade business will become a profitable one in the coming fiscal year, and that’s understandable.
Also, it appears that Sega plans to develop more games internally in order to increase their profits and they will also solicit “voluntary retirement” of no less than 560 of their 3,127 employees. It is also reported that Sega’s North American branch had to lay off 30 employees recently.