Sonic Team

Japanese video game developer
Organization video_game_developer Q1140960
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Sonic Team

Summary

Sonic Team is a video game developer[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of video_game_developer entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (448 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sonic Team is in the country of Japan[3].
  • Sonic Team is in the country of Russia[4].
  • Sonic Team's instance of is recorded as video game developer[5].
  • Sonic Team's founder is recorded as Takashi Iizuka[6].
  • Sonic Team's founder is recorded as Yuji Naka[7].
  • Sonic Team's founder is recorded as Naoto Ohshima[8].
  • Sonic Team's founder is recorded as Hirokazu Yasuhara[9].
  • Sonic Team's founder is recorded as Aleksey[10].
  • Sonic Team's owned by is recorded as Q122741[11].
  • Sonic Team's headquarters location is recorded as Tokyo[12].
  • Sonic Team's headquarters location is recorded as Novosibirsk[13].
  • Sonic Team's Commons category is recorded as Sonic Team[14].
  • Sonic Team's MusicBrainz artist ID is recorded as 038c2657-228a-4c0f-8817-6574da304cb3[15].
  • Sonic Team's industry is recorded as video game industry[16].
  • +2000-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Sonic Team[17].
  • Sonic Team's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06nfl[18].
  • Sonic Team's parent organization or unit is recorded as Q122741[19].
  • Sonic Team's official website is recorded as http://www.sonicteam.com[20].
  • Sonic Team's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sonic Team[21].
  • Sonic Team's product or material produced is recorded as list of Sonic Team games[22].
  • Sonic Team's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+60'}[23].
  • Sonic Team's legal form is recorded as kabushiki gaisha[24].
  • Sonic Team's Discogs artist ID is recorded as 2407401[25].
  • Sonic Team's Quora topic ID is recorded as Sonic-Team[26].
  • Sonic Team's MobyGames company ID is recorded as sonic-team[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Takashi Iizuka[6], Yuji Naka[7], Naoto Ohshima[8], Hirokazu Yasuhara[9], and Aleksey[10]. +2000-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Sonic Team[17].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Tokyo[12], a metropolitan prefecture[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1868[30], headquartered in Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building[31] and Novosibirsk[13], a big city[32], in Russia[33], founded in 1893[34]. Sonic Team's parent organization or unit is recorded as Q122741[19].

Industry

Sonic Team's industry is recorded as video game industry[16].

Ownership

Sonic Team's owned by is recorded as Q122741[11]. Its product or material produced is recorded as list of it games[22].

Why It Matters

Sonic Team ranks in the top 9% of video_game_developer entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (448 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

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  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . LastDodo. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Lmerice · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Thegamesdb developer id 7979
    Official website http://www.sonicteam.com
    Instance of video game developer
    Giant bomb id (former scheme) 3010-781
    + 79 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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