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Sega Super Game is canceled, lowered the priority of F2P

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Sega's Super Game is canceled

Originally announced back in 2022, Sega's Super Game was expected to launch in March of this year.
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The mysterious Super Game in development by Sega has been canceled. The title was originally announced in 2022 alongside a reboot of other IPs, but has since been canned. Sega notes that there is no additional costs associated with the cancelation of the project.

Sega FY2026/3 Full-year results

On May 11, 2026, SegaSammy released its FY2026/3 full-year results and forecast. Tucked away on Slide 32, Sega announced that it has decided to cancel its Super Game. This announcement was tucked between two other interesting tidbits: that new F2P titles struggled, with weak performance from Sonic Rumble Party, and that Sega has lowered the priority of F2P. It stands to reason that Super Game may have been planned as a free-to-play title.

Super Game was originally announced in 2022 alongside reveals that Sega is developing new Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi titles. Little was heard about Super Game until 2023 where Sega announced it was still working on the project and expected it to launch in March 2026.

With Sega's Super Game canceled, players will be looking to the other IPs that were announced as receiving a reboot. The report actually makes mention of these on Slide 58, with a new Virtua Fighter, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, and Alien: Isolation project still in development.
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Concords are getting aborted before we even get to see them, so sad.

Getting confirmation that all those games are still in development is nice tho.
 
I think they also shot themselves in the foot by calling it the Super Game. Always under promise and over deliver, not the other way around
 
Not surprised. Expecting the same fate for the other games they have announced. This was all a communication strategy targeted at shareholders. These games don't exist.
 
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Super Game sounded like they wanted to throw everything into one platform so at lest some part of it would appeal to everyone. On paper anyway.
 
So it was a game after all? I always thought that was just the name for the projects that bring their old IPs back. Like the Jet Set Radio game or the Golden Axe game, etc.
 
I thought this was Hyenas. There was something else?

Odinnii said:
Concords are getting aborted before we even get to see them, so sad.

Getting confirmation that all those games are still in development is nice tho.
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companies starting to realize that if you don't have one of those games now you're probably not getting one. Same cycle as MMOs after WoW.
 
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adamsapple said:
Good. Put that funds towards Atlus and have them put out Persona 6 quicker.
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Too soon, need a couple of more versions of Persona 3, 4, 5 and where is the Metaphor Super Deluxe Championship Edition? I haven't been waiting forever for that one.

Or maybe they are already road mapping how many times they need to re-release Persona 6 and working on the revisions.

Give me re-makes of Persona 1 and 2 and I may die happy.
 
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And this is why you don't just accept live service trash because the negatives start to make other companies take a step back and realize that it isnt the way. The rejection of all these games I think is finally making a dent
 
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Based on how their note emphasized that they are redirecting their efforts from f2p games to "full games" I have a feeling this so called "super game" was meant to be just another live service game and if that's the case, maybe this was for the better. It's a shame, though, that we never got to see how that game was.
 
Togh said:
Based on how their note emphasized that they are redirecting their efforts from f2p games to "full games" I have a feeling this so called "super game" was meant to be just another live service game and if that's the case, maybe this was for the better. It's a shame, though, that we never got to see how that game was.
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I always had a feeling it was like Fortnite with Sega characters. That's just the vibe I got when they announced it.
 
Pejo said:
I always had a feeling it was like Fortnite with Sega characters. That's just the vibe I got when they announced it.
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Do you remember that FPS game they cancelled called "Hyenas"? That was a f2p hero shooter full of cosmetics referencing SEGA's past. Crazy that they cancelled that (which was very advanced in development because they were running closed betas and such already) and was still trying something with this Super Game
 
I just recently finished Street of Rage 2. It's a really good game, they have something solid. And I never played it before so it's not nostalgia.

Crazy Taxi is awesome too and Golden Axe is also pretty good.

Finally they are doing something with those IPs.
 
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Business Game Dev  Thread 'Sega Super Game is canceled, lowered the priority of F2P'

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Sega's Super Game is canceled

Originally announced back in 2022, Sega's Super Game was expected to launch in March of this year.
www.shacknews.com www.shacknews.com

The mysterious Super Game in development by Sega has been canceled. The title was originally announced in 2022 alongside a reboot of other IPs, but has since been canned. Sega notes that there is no additional costs associated with the cancelation of the project.

Sega FY2026/3 Full-year results

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EDIT: Sorry Topher Topher I didn't realise you made an effort and created a thread like normal people do
 
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You know who else does this already?

Capcom.

Sega could pick a worse company to emulate.

I'm gonna say this now. With their IP, Sega should look at what Capcom has done and try to copy them.
 
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Sega needs to stop this bull shit and embrace who they are. They're sitting on a gold mine of classics franchises they just neglect. If they want to keep releasing games that do well with reviewers, but sell poorly, that's their prerogative, but to ignore what made them great in the first place is criminal.
 
Germuso said:
The new street of rage looks like shit, awful dev.
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It does. Streets of Rage 4 was awesome, so the potential is still there. If they're not going to show love to their classics, they need to license them out to developers who will, and I don't mean Forever Entertainment.
 
Hopefully the scopes for Crazy Taxi and JSR are pretty small. Extremally niche market for those games.
 
Crew511A said:
Sega needs to stop this bull shit and embrace who they are. They're sitting on a gold mine of classics franchises they just neglect. If they want to keep releasing games that do well with reviewers, but sell poorly, that's their prerogative, but to ignore what made them great in the first place is criminal.
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I feel like old school gamers massively overestimate the value of Segas old IPs. SoR4 was successful as a small cheap downloadable game but that is not driving s company like Sega. The amount of money it made is a rounding error compared to the latest Sonic slop or Persona. And that's probably on the high end of potential. Nobody gives a shit about Golden Axe or Phantasy Star, sorry. The market potential for most of these old franchises is zero.
 
Baemono said:
Another thread ?

IbizaPocholo

Business Game Dev  Thread 'Sega Super Game is canceled, lowered the priority of F2P'

www.shacknews.com

Sega's Super Game is canceled

Originally announced back in 2022, Sega's Super Game was expected to launch in March of this year.
www.shacknews.com www.shacknews.com

The mysterious Super Game in development by Sega has been canceled. The title was originally announced in 2022 alongside a reboot of other IPs, but has since been canned. Sega notes that there is no additional costs associated with the cancelation of the project.

Sega FY2026/3 Full-year results

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Ah....duplicate thread. Will report it.

Baemono said:
EDIT: Sorry Topher Topher I didn't realise you made an effort and created a thread like normal people do
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I'll be back to making threads that trigger you soon enough, don't worry

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I'm surprised all of those other games are still in development. Nothing's been seen of them since they were announced back at the 2023 Game Awards. Crazy Taxi always seemed an odd choice to bring back and the versions of SOR and Golden Axe they showed looked rough.
 
diffusionx said:
I feel like old school gamers massively overestimate the value of Segas old IPs. SoR4 was successful as a small cheap downloadable game but that is not driving s company like Sega. The amount of money it made is a rounding error compared to the latest Sonic slop or Persona. And that's probably on the high end of potential. Nobody gives a shit about Golden Axe or Phantasy Star, sorry. The market potential for most of these old franchises is zero.
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Ouch.

But yeah, you're probably right. I'm not expecting blockbuster budgets, but even simple remaster with quality of life improvements would make me happy. Releasing the Sega Ages games the Switch got onto PS and Xbox would be nice.
 
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