It means nothing for Atlus, they operate separately from Sega.
Any large video game corporation that was making amazing systems and games a mere fifth teen years ago and have decided to focus on mobile is a dead company in my eyes. Of course, their PC output has been good so maybe I'm exaggerating a bit.
In addition, the Sonic and merchandising businesses will be reinforced to establish a structure which can generate stable profits.
And they still function separately. As long as they are making money Sega won't touch them.Atlus is still a fully owned subsidiary of Sega Games.
So much this. The war is over.Sega needs to sell Sonic to Nintendo immediately.
What do they even mean by Online PC games? I would have figured PSO2 avoidance of this region had to due with lack of confidence of the game's success. If SEGA is doubling down on Online PC games why not localize PSO2?
And they still function separately. As long as they are making money Sega won't touch them.
.The confusion in here is huge...
What this mainly affects:
- Arcade Centers in Japan. This includes games like: Project Diva Arcade, Maimai, Code of Joker, Puyo Puyo Quest, and a couple other things.
- Development of future arcade titles. I'm sure we won't be seeing another Outrun or anything similar for a long, long time now.
- Reduction of labor for console releases
- Ramped production for mobile and PC titles
What this doesn't affect:
- Atlus or any of Sega's subsidiaries.
- Any part of SegaSammy holdings outside of the primary video game market (gambling machines, sponsored teams, etc.)
- PC or net service games like PSO2.
It's all in the document that the OP listed. Pretty clear that they're just refocusing to try and make some money in this market.
So, on the one hand, we already knew this--Sega is moving away from console games development towards mobile and PC. The remaining console games they make will be surefire hits in their biggest IPs, and they'll be few and far between.
But on the other hand, this article doesn't seem to be reacting to any new event. Like, it doesn't seem like Sega has taken a step towards that process today. It seems like "RocketNews24" has republished a Yahoo News Japan article which in turn was syndicated to JapanToday?
I would seriously caution against reading the headline and assume "today's the day they release no more console games" versus as recognizing the ongoing process.
Nintendo needs to step in and buy them up.
It isn't. They're just focusing on Mobile and PC.
Nintendo needs to step in and buy them up.
Browser games have potential, but the first and most obvious examples are Total War and Football Manager, games which are quite profitable for Sega and which sell exclusively through digital means in most (all?) of the world.
The confusion in here is huge...
What this mainly affects:
- Arcade Centers in Japan. This includes games like: Project Diva Arcade, Maimai, Code of Joker, Puyo Puyo Quest, and a couple other things.
- Development of future arcade titles. I'm sure we won't be seeing another Outrun or anything similar for a long, long time now.
- Reduction of labor for console releases
- Ramped production for mobile and PC titles
What this doesn't affect:
- Atlus or any of Sega's subsidiaries.
- Any part of SegaSammy holdings outside of the primary video game market (gambling machines, sponsored teams, etc.)
- PC or net service games like PSO2.
It's all in the document that the OP listed. Pretty clear that they're just refocusing to try and make some money in this market.
Do you like browser and F2P games?If they focus their entire library on PC that's fine by me.
Nintendo needs to step in and buy them up.
Nintendo needs to step in and buy them up.
Do you like browser and F2P games?
And happens next after this impossible scenario?
Perfect summary.
Crisis averted.
No, problably coming exlcusive to Steam, hehe.
Nintendo needs to step in and buy them up.
Still a major blow though, as there will definitely be changes felt at the end of the day. It certain feels like their death, even though it isn't.
so no hope for Phantasy Star Nova coming west right?
Browser games have potential, but the first and most obvious examples are Total War and Football Manager, games which are quite profitable for Sega and which sell exclusively through digital means in most (all?) of the world.
Nintendo killed SonicNintendo needs to step in and buy them up.
Football Manager in Europe is huge even in physical form.
That's a bannable offense, right here.I don't understand why anyone likes that game. You can't even play soccer! All you do is manage the teams! Besides, soccer is boring, not like the NFL. 2/10.
Reasons this is not going to happen but say if we even exclude Sammy from the equation for a minute;
- SEGA's mobile and PC division is actually successful
- What is Nintendo going to do with the extra fat from SEGA, their animation studios, toy division, arcade centres and so on?
- What does Nintendo do with the various PC studios SEGA owns?
- Why would Nintendo spend upwards of $2 billion to buy a "minor" 2 - 3 million+ series in Sonic which is the star draw?
The likelihood of this deal is as much as Nintendo being bought up by Microsoft.
They handled the master system quite while. Selling it to Tonka, buying it back, only for everything about the system to crash since Tonka had no idea how to market a video game console properly (going from toy trucks to video games is quite something).Wow. So sad. This company used to make the Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast. I hope their IP's don't suffer ill fates oh wait....Sonic.
Arcade gaming is the best kind of gaming though, so this is bad news. Would be better to just close Atlus IMO.
Nintendo killed Sonic
Forgot to bring those up in my prior post about games that may not make sense to bring to consoles, despite the fact that honestly Total War IS what I think of first when I think of Sega's PC support. Probably because the real worry to me is what's going on with Japanese development, as everything outside of that seems to be mainly cutting off fat, and the biggest casualties we care about are usually developers that can go elsewhere (Alpha Protocol landing with a thud and Sega unlikely to publish more Oblivion RPGs? Whatever we still got Pillars of Eternity.)Browser games have potential, but the first and most obvious examples are Total War and Football Manager, games which are quite profitable for Sega and which sell exclusively through digital means in most (all?) of the world.
Guess I never thought of all the extra burden that would come from that decision. Maybe at the least other companies will buy the IP's that Sega has control of?
Perfect summary.
Crisis averted.