In an interview published by Nikkei Shimbun, Sega President and Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumiexplaining the reasons for the company’s decision Cancel his big “super game” planor should have been A large live service style title about a historical franchise Publisher’s.
It’s easy to tell: Utsumi confirmed that Sega’s Super Game was supposed to be the company’s foray into live-service gaming and should serve as a battering ram to expand its audience, highlighting the numerous franchises in Sega’s portfolio, but The expected cost is too great and the risks are equally huge.
Over time, this problem became more and more apparent, to the point of prompting Sega to cancel the project entirely before it became too expensive to afford, a choice similar to the one the same company made with The Creative Assembly’s Hyenas project, also a live service that was never completed.
a huge project
Sega has publicly talked about its super game back in 2021, aiming to Investment amount reaches 100 billion yen (approximately $882 million) to advance development of the project over at least five years.
The purpose is to create a Expand your audience Sega’s business even expanded beyond cross-media projects, which continued within the company anyway.
However, Sega said in its financial results released last May that it had canceled the project.
Sega cancels “Super Game” and will reduce investment in live streaming service games
“We assumed we had the necessary technology and tried to move forward with the project, but as our analysis progressed, We realize that investment and operational scale must increase significantly In order to keep up with the scale of services, we are starting to see the challenges this brings,” Utsumi told Nikkei.
“Therefore, given the global situation, we believe that this challenge should be addressed at this time That would be too risky. This is why we have paused development of Super Game. However, I still believe there is a business opportunity here and we will continue to build this business. “
Regardless, Sega continues to dabble in live-streaming services with smaller projects, as we’ve seen with Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, SEGA FC Champions 2026, and the rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage.