On July 28, 2006, the 4th China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (commonly known as ChinaJoy), was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center[1]. At the SEGA booth (more precisely, the SEGA Networks China booth), the production announcement of 「樱花大战MMO」(暂定名) "Sakura Wars MMO (tentative name)" was made. The development for the game was to be split between Sega Japan and Sega China's R&D center in Shanghai and was made exclusively for PC. It was not decided as to whether or not the title would leave Mainland China and according to Mr. Hiroi a possible Japanese release would have been dependent upon the success of the Mainland China release of the game. The game was cancelled in June 2007 due to Sega's withdrawal from the online games business in China[1].
In December of 2019 a user by the name of "黄泉custom" on a9vg BBS claimed to be a former a Sega Networks (China) employee who worked on the canceled MMO, shared a leaked screenshot of the game claiming that character of Yui Huang was originally created for the canceled MMO and was later repurposed New Sakura Wars.[2]
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- Interview with Osahiro Hiroi, producer of "Sakura Wars MMO"
- Presentation overview
- 4gamer.net game profile
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- ↑ Cnet article about SEGA Networks (China) closure - Cnet
- ↑ 发一张“女儿”的照片，这才是黄郁原本的样子（大雾 - 樱花大战系列 - bbs.a9vg.com