Sega Loses $50 Million in Three Months
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Sega, let me help you.
Step one: Give the Sonic IP to someone else than Sonic Team.
Step two: Make sequels to Vanquish, Bayonetta, Crazy taxi, Valkyria chronicles (NOT on the PSP) and some of your best JRPGs.
Step three: Let Nintendo buy you. Failing that, sell them the sonic IP.
Step four: Profit!
There is another, less classy way as well:
Step one: Make all your devs each make a Sonic game, and only give them 3 months to do it.
Step two: Release 20 sonic games a year.
Step three: Profit!
I wonder how much Sonic actually does for them. It's a recognizable franchise and it probably sells regardless of quality, I just wonder how much. I do think it would fetch a high price from Nintendo and that they could make it good again.
Step one: Give the Sonic IP to someone else than Sonic Team.
Step two: Make sequels to Vanquish, Bayonetta, Crazy taxi, Valkyria chronicles (NOT on the PSP) and some of your best JRPGs.
Step three: Let Nintendo buy you. Failing that, sell them the sonic IP.
Step four: Profit!
There is another, less classy way as well:
Step one: Make all your devs each make a Sonic game, and only give them 3 months to do it.
Step two: Release 20 sonic games a year.
Step three: Profit!
I wonder how much Sonic actually does for them. It's a recognizable franchise and it probably sells regardless of quality, I just wonder how much. I do think it would fetch a high price from Nintendo and that they could make it good again.
But Sonic Colors sold over 2 million copies. Running it into the ground makes them money, sorry.Gindil said:
Sega has tons of abandoned franchises from the Sat/DC eras that they could use, rather than keep milking Sonic to death.
Umm. No. Nintendo's stock is at an all-time low and it reported a [a href="http://kotaku.com/5601103/sega-does-what-nintendont-namely-make-money"]loss[/a] last year, not a profit. $290,million by this time, in fact, due to the value of the Yen and poor software sales on the Wii. With the 3DS doing so poorly they're probably reporting a much larger loss.Grey Carter said:
I try not to. I do not have fond memories of that game. It started out okay I guess, but rapidly went downhill for me. I can't remember why. It was so long ago and I sold it because I didn't want it anymore, so I can't go try again to remember.TheNaut131 said:
Doesn't mean I disagree with them trying something other than milking every last drop they can out of Sonic the Hedgehog though. I was just on another forum where a thread asked if we would buy a Dreamcast 2, and my answer was a very solid no considering SEGA has absolutely nothing I'm interested in right now. So yes, I think they should at least try something different.
I love SEGA, they created Sonic, Shinobi, and Vanquish. All great titles, and I'm so excited for Sonic Generations. So damn excited after playing the demo.
I hope SEGA gets it's ass out of the water and starts making great game again. I still have yet to play Valkyria Chronicles though.
Now is the perfect time for a reinvention. Release my Dreamcast 2, with some great titles that aren't platformers. Shenmue III, a brand new Crazy Taxi, and some titles specifically made to show off it's great features (whatever they could be). I think a great trick would be the ability to influence a game with your voice, or having your voice patterns recorded so that your RPG character has your voice.
I hope SEGA gets it's ass out of the water and starts making great game again. I still have yet to play Valkyria Chronicles though.
Now is the perfect time for a reinvention. Release my Dreamcast 2, with some great titles that aren't platformers. Shenmue III, a brand new Crazy Taxi, and some titles specifically made to show off it's great features (whatever they could be). I think a great trick would be the ability to influence a game with your voice, or having your voice patterns recorded so that your RPG character has your voice.
Man Sega has such a great back log of titles that would bring in money if they would just dip into it. I personally would like to see the Shining Force games given a modern coat of paint and remade. Other than that Crazi Taxi was always a ton of fun and if they really want to get crazy how about making a modern version of Eternal Champions.
I can't fathom why, in an age of digital distribution, they don't mine their back-catalogue for all it's worth. They're IP rich, they need to either re-release their classics (not the same batch of Megadrive games they've already sold in every possible medium) or sell off the rights to other companies.
They've totally run Sonic into the ground, and their other active franchises just don't have enough pull. They've really got to work at developing quality games again.
They've totally run Sonic into the ground, and their other active franchises just don't have enough pull. They've really got to work at developing quality games again.
Nintendo and Sega are dying...
Sad to say, but if they don't get cracking, they're going to end up being like the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision, once great rivals that no one really cares about anymore...
Who knows, if Nintendo and Sega don't figure out what people want they're never going to get a foot out of the grave. Big N should have learned from Sony's PS3 release that you need games, not just a fancy system. PS3 didn't become a real contender until almost the end of it's second year when it got a decent library to combat the 360. 3DS isn't selling well because nothing was actually ready for it? no duh. Seriously, it is just like what happened with E.T. We don't just want the name, we need substance. But at least we'll know it is a problem when Nintendo decides to bury 3DSes in a landfill in a desert, or at least put them in a warehouse with the Virtua Boys (the other 3D flop from Nintendo)... And I think Sega needs to stop digging and just lay down...
I really like you Nintendo, but you really got to figure it out. Look at Sega, they just released crap after crap after crap that their genuinely good system didn't have a chance.
Wow, Nintendo not paying attention to what happened to Sony AND Sega?
And the dumbest thing Sega did was probably those urinal games. What was the point of that? To prove that Japan is weird? We already knew that Sega...
Sad to say, but if they don't get cracking, they're going to end up being like the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision, once great rivals that no one really cares about anymore...
Who knows, if Nintendo and Sega don't figure out what people want they're never going to get a foot out of the grave. Big N should have learned from Sony's PS3 release that you need games, not just a fancy system. PS3 didn't become a real contender until almost the end of it's second year when it got a decent library to combat the 360. 3DS isn't selling well because nothing was actually ready for it? no duh. Seriously, it is just like what happened with E.T. We don't just want the name, we need substance. But at least we'll know it is a problem when Nintendo decides to bury 3DSes in a landfill in a desert, or at least put them in a warehouse with the Virtua Boys (the other 3D flop from Nintendo)... And I think Sega needs to stop digging and just lay down...
I really like you Nintendo, but you really got to figure it out. Look at Sega, they just released crap after crap after crap that their genuinely good system didn't have a chance.
Wow, Nintendo not paying attention to what happened to Sony AND Sega?
And the dumbest thing Sega did was probably those urinal games. What was the point of that? To prove that Japan is weird? We already knew that Sega...
