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Sega announces extraordinary loss of 7.1 bn yen, layoffs, restructures, cancels games
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Sega to sign Sakaguchi.
Don't have a problem with that really. As long as Football Manager and Total War keep going, it's all good.
What if they just never announce the game in the first place.
Best get those Dreamcast ports out stat. Not that they'd make much of a difference
*Prays* Please don't let this part of the cut, Please don't let this part of the cut, Please don't let this part of the cut....
LOL. Vanquish and Bayonetta? Bayonetta had no chance in hell. Vanquish could reasonably have done well if they had marketed it well. But this is Sega after all.
Sega owns the IP so that will not happen.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Don't worry guys I'm sure Anarchy Reigns will boost that budget.
Given Sega owns the Ip they would need to let Atlus or sell them the IP.
Yeah, Atlus, that makes sense.
Game with ~$20 million budget and a niche closet publisher.
I heard they want it to sell 6 million copies.
I imagine that they won't go East-Asia again directly after Shogun 2. If I had to guess, I'd say they'll probably revisit Rome.
But then Half-Life 3 really would never see the light of day.
Have all Plat games combined even hit 3 million WW?
Maybe they can sell the 'Shenmue' rights to someone who is willing to fund (and hire Yu Suzuki) and conclude the series.
Ah who am I kidding. We'll never see Shenmue 3
Why would a company want to buy the rights to what has been a giant money sink?
It could be a hobby for someone.
pieatorium
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if they are dying off funding games for this gen then funding games for a more powerful console even if only slightly will still kill them.
rockman zx
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Just release Shenmue III and die... just kidding.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Also stop blaming 'the HD generation' peoples. Companies reach this point because of mis-management. Sega has always had a talented arcade division and they used to make money back on those costly developments beyond the shrinking arcade market by bringing console ports to the west. Not so in the last decade with quality stuff like Border Break forever languishing in japanese arcades alongside easily monetised stuff like Shining Force Cross and more.
tearsofash
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Sega makes some great games, and there's sequels I'd really like to see. I've tried to do my part, that's all I can say.
Should have figured that Bayo is a Sega owned IP. Ooh well. Hopefully Bayonetta 2 will be fine. I wouldn't mind Platinum putting the gameplay framework in a new IP though. Not especially a fan of the Bayonetta world and characters.
And yeah, Anarchy Reigns is going to hurt Sega.
And yeah, Anarchy Reigns is going to hurt Sega.
Budgets have went soaring despite the consoles staying static since 2005 though.
The issue is consumer expectations keep raising, and they continue to polarize around the biggest titles.
When Assassin's Creed 3 has over twice the budget of any other game in Ubisoft history, the static hardware isn't really doing anything to stop budget inflation.
Well, it was a giant money sink, but a Shenmue these days wouldn't cost anymore than any other game to make, and besides, it has a serious cult following that would at least make gamers who missed out the first time curious to try them, esp with the promise of a new title down the track.
A re-release of Shenmue 1/2 in HD with a few minor gameplay adjustments (and maybe some new voice work) in a cheap package on Live/PSN (and Steam too) followed by a brand new Shenmue 3 could turn a profit, imo.
That style of game's audience is almost completely on console. If they did try to actually push it out it could hurt the game more to put it on Vita/3DS when it's main audience is Western and console based.
but I heard it also has decent preorders.
IrishNinja
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this sucks. i really did think sega was making a lot've the right moves this gen too - working on platforms like the Wii as well, new IP's, good work put in on old ones like Sonic Generations, PC ports here & there, some F2P games as well...fuck, what went so horribly wrong?
bayonetta 2 jokes are perfectly fine, but this...this takes it a bit too far, man.
*sigh* at least playing through Kenzan soon will prepare me.
fucking ouch.
also, this shouldn't affect PSP 2 if its F2P, yeah?
bayonetta 2 jokes are perfectly fine, but this...this takes it a bit too far, man.
*sigh* at least playing through Kenzan soon will prepare me.
fucking ouch.
also, this shouldn't affect PSP 2 if its F2P, yeah?
MightyHedgehog
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And all of these crazy people want new consoles out ASAP. Who the fuck is going to make these big budget launch period console games when they're trying to dig themselves out of the current-gen hole? I don't want the new console launches to be filled with sequels, franchise spinoffs, and more licensed fare than they already are, so it seems that the first party will be the one to pretty much carry a larger burden of building up a fresh lineup for fresh platforms while third parties pull back on the risk, pull back from the edge.
JustAnotherOtaku
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Fuck. Cancellation news has me worried
Because making games on the same budgets or slightly higher than what is currently killing them will help?
If, in 2013, Japan still can't make videogames that don't look like they're from PC era 2003 without spending their entire bank account, there needs to be some serious shakeups in how they are running the industry over there. We've been talking about how Japan was caught with their pants down in technology because they never had the PC to transition them to higher than 480p detailed gaming, but it's been SIX YEARS now. They can't keep being clusterfucked on every major project for the next 3 decades. At some point something needs to change and it's not "let's just makes all games in 320p for the rest of our lives because we are giving up on improving as programmers".
Yes, Assassin's Creed 3 will sell great while many other titles die because people are busy buying AC3 instead.