--- title: Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away description: Hideki Sato, legendary Sega hardware designer known as 'the Father of Sega Hardware,' has died at 77. Starting at Sega in the early 1970s, he led R&D in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away-tahxjp6ak twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away | daily.dev og:description: Hideki Sato, legendary Sega hardware designer known as 'the Father of Sega Hardware,' has died at 77. Starting at Sega in the early 1970s, he led R&D in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away-tahxjp6ak og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TahxJp6aK.png og:image:alt: Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away **[Game Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hideki Sato, legendary Sega hardware designer known as 'the Father of Sega Hardware,' has died at 77. Starting at Sega in the early 1970s, he led R&D in the 1990s and shaped iconic consoles including the SG-1000, Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast. He served as company president from 2001-2003 and also contributed to beloved games like Sonic CD and Sonic Adventure before departing in 2008. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#game-development](https://daily.dev/tags/game-development), [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away-tahxjp6ak) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away-tahxjp6ak","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away-tahxjp6ak"},"datePublished":"2026-02-17T20:54:35.762Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T18:02:43.955Z","description":"Hideki Sato, legendary Sega hardware designer known as 'the Father of Sega Hardware,' has died at 77. Starting at Sega in the early 1970s, he led R&D in the...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ef720250322da99431489ae105d31d69?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ef720250322da99431489ae105d31d69?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Game Developer","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Game Developer","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/5fbb7418db8746769a45f55309bbdf13","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/obituary-sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away-tahxjp6ak","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"game-development,gaming,hardware","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Game Developer","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Obituary: Sega Console designer Hideki Sato has passed away"}]} ```