Last year, SEGA unveiled some of its plans for the future with the announcement of a range of “Super Game” – cross-platform and localized AAAs all over the world – meant to mark a new beginning of sorts for the editor. Just over a week ago, Shuji Utsumi, executive producer, Masayoshi Kikuchi, producer, and Katsuya Hisai, general manager, even gave a few shy confidences about this great project, without revealing anything about it. concrete. It was without counting on the unexpected intervention of Takashi Mochizuki, journalist for Bloomberg, who went fishing for information and brought back some indiscretions.
His sources, who preferred to remain anonymous, informed him of the development of two reboots major licenses: Crazy Taxi and Jet-Set Radio. The first would also be under construction for a year now and SEGA would consider an exit within two to three years. The two titles were also included in the last annual report of SEGA listing a series of assets that the company planned to bring up to date. SEGA’s objective was clearly displayed there: develop sources of recurring revenue and create online communities around its licensing portfolio ยป on the model of Fortnite, according to our colleagues at Bloomberg. Also remember that a third “Super Game” is in development within the European studio of SEGA: an FPS whose objective would be to generate 100 billion yen (724,500,000 euros) over the entire life of the title.
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