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Sega shines in its new starring role

VIDEO GAMES Rather than playing second-fiddle on the world's video-console stage, the Japan-based company has decided to star as a gamemaker

AP , TOKYO

Microsoft, meanwhile, expects to have about 20 Xbox games when the machine goes on sale in the US. But that's just the start; Hirohisa Ohura, managing director of Microsoft's Japan unit, said 150 games are being manufactured for Xbox by 80 Japanese makers.

Sega has also decided to use the Xbox motherboard for its arcade games -- an area Sega dominates. Ohura said Microsoft and Sega are also together developing online games for personal computers in North America, and more online tie-ups are in the works, he said.

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