Sega Sports Japan

Sega Sports Japan was an internal division of SEGA. There were several small development division operating within the company:

• G9 Team
• Team Aquila
• Team Andromeda
• Team Vega

Around 1998, they were folded back into the main company and the names were no longer used.

It operated as Sega Sports Design R&D for about four years, after Smilebit was merged back into Sega on July 1, 2004. Most recently, the staff is spread across the various consumer R&D divisions at Sega. Former head of the studio Takayuki Kawagoe moved up to the position of overseeing the majority of Sega's output on consumer devices.