Sato and his team played a pivotal role in the development of consoles ranging from the SG-1000 all the way to the Dreamcast.

With Xbox increasingly turning to cross-platform releases, they could learn a lot from how Sega successfully teamed up with a former rival.

Back in 2002, Xbox Live shaped gaming forever by bringing online multiplayer to home consoles, but it wasn't the first to do so. Before Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony turned online multiplayer into a ...