Japanese software giant SEGA has confirmed it is planning on resurrecting ‘major IPs’ as the company outlines its ‘Road to 2020’ plans.
Speaking during a recent business presentation for the financial year ended March 31, 2017, SEGA confirmed a number of strategies within its Packaged Games Field. You can check out its plans below (via Gematsu).
Packaged Games Field (example titles: Total War: Warhammer, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, Football Manager 2017, and Persona 5)
- Expand existing IPs and obtain new IPs for North American and European PC games
- Build revenue base by being entrusted with outsourced development
- Challenge for new IPs
- Revival of major IPs
- Effective utilization of development engines
Digital Games Field (example titles: Puyo Puyo!! Quest, Hortensia Saga, Chain Chronicle 3, and Phantasy Star Online 2)
- Create titles that will become global hits
- Establish digital marketing business
- Expand overseas publishing business
- Maintain profits through long-term operation of existing titles
- Develop next-generation titles
SEGA also acknowledged a “major issue” it has is to “create titles that will become global hits.” In order to achieve this, the publishing powerhouse is planning on reviving past IPs as well as actively nurturing existing IPs, new IPs, and external IPs.
SEGA has been a software-only company since it abandoned the hardware market in 2001 following the demise of the Dreamcast. Since that time, the firm has been churning out titles for multiple platforms, and while the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog hasn’t quite managed a solid transition in the 3D-era, SEGA has found great success with the likes of Yakuza and Phantasy Star Online.
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As for what IPs SEGA could revive, there’s a bunch of classic games we’d like to see: Streets of Rage, After Burner, Skies of Arcadia, Shinobi, Panzer Dragoon, Jet Set Radio, House of the Dead, and heaps more.