SEGA of America announced that it will lay off 300 employees, and that it will be restructuring itself in order to put more focus on mobile games and PC online games. SEGA claimed that it aims to become more efficient than ever, and in order to achieve that it will be streamlining through downsizing and relocation.
Here is what SEGA had to say about this:
“Voluntary retirement will be solicited in the aforementioned businesses to be withdrawn or consolidated and downsized, while at the same time personnel will be repositioned in Digital Games and growth areas of Group mainly as development personnel, in order to establish a structure which can constantly generate profits. The purpose of these measures is to improve the business efficiency of the Group.”
The interesting thing here is that SEGA acknowledged the fact that its PC only franchises – like the Total War and Football Manager franchises – continue to attract a sizeable audience. So no, SEGA won’t turn its back to the PC audience any time soon.
Let’s hope that SEGA’s new focus won’t give us a Sonic MMO game, because our lovely hedgehog deserves more than MMO or F2P games.
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Hopefully we see a port of Vanquish or Bayonetta.
yes please, i would love those
Instead of 3 or 4 years old consoles ports… why not new ips using the full power of pc hardware?
Better yet, dont ask for voluntary retirements, put all that people now to beta test your new total war game so gamers dont needs to wait 9 or 10 patch to play the game.
And if you still have people around… then put that guys to work on sli and crossfire support on your tittles, day one support I mean. Company of heroes 2 maybe? (I know the engine not work with multi gpu set ups, then fix the engine)
As always, my 5 cents
because there are no other games like those in the market
Relic has already said they would probably have a new engine for their next game. Also, as the creator of #SEGAPCPorts, I would gladly take ports of some of the aforementioned SEGA content over most new IP.
Older doesn’t mean bad and new doesn’t mean better, I think Duke Nukem 3D is the best FPS ever. It’s nearly 20 years old.
Because they’re amazing games that were too overlooked, and could benefit from reaching a wider audience and getting a re-release (a la Valkyria Chronicles’ PC port)
id do horrible things to get em on PC
sega port virtua fighter 5,vanquish and bayonetta.
you will earn much!
i tweeted them for bayo.. i really hope they release bayo on PC.
Nintendo is worse than Sony when it comes to exclusives. Bayo at this point will never be on PC (at least not anytime soon). All you can do now is wait for emulators or get a Wii U.
I still needs to play jet force gemini. People said a lot of good stuffs of that game in the lates 90′
That game was made by rareware, not sega. but I too have never played that one, looked fun =)
He probably means the first Bayonetta, which SEGA published. SEGA also owns the IP. That said, Bayonetta 2 there’s probably very little hope for though as Nintendo picked it up and funded the completion on the condition it remain a Wii U exclusive.
“Let’s hope that SEGA’s new focus won’t give us a Sonic MMO game, because
our lovely hedgehog deserves more than MMO or F2P games.”
Agreed. Let’s hope they won’t turn Total War into online only trash and will give Relic some money to make new games. Relic is one of the best companies around and they should use them to full potential. And please no more rushed products like Rome 2.
I can only see F2P in my mind 😐
But, “hope dies last” I guess…
Also, people asking for Bayonetta, isn’t it Platinum responsibility? IIRC SEGA only published it isn’t it?
SEGA owns the franchise.
Yeah, I stand corrected. These dev/publisher relationships are too convoluted for me. :s
“SEGA Now Focusing On Mobiles & PC Online Games” should say:
“SEGA Now Focusing On Mobiles & PC Games” Plz no MMO crap Sega!
*Unless it’s FINALLY bringing Phantasy Star Online 2 to the rest of the world
Next Project Diva game on PC too…please.
How about bringing Dengeki Bunko to PC?
I hope this bigger focus on Online PC games and Mobiles don’t stop them from producing normal Console and PC Games. I also expect SEGA to give proper attention to PC Gaming by releasing more of their Japanese games on the platform, their RTS and simulators are great, but having only these types of games released on PC can get stale really fast.
Rarely they release something different, the last Sonic game they have released on PC before Generations was Sonic Heroes, and that one was released in 2004, there was a seven year gap between the two titles.
No shooters, no action games, no platformers, no fighters, no RPGs, no nothing, there are loads of games that SEGA keeps from releasing on PC, even though they know that PC gaming is profitable for them.
While I absolutely agree with you there, I do gotta point out that they’ve done weird things before here. Like, they might’ve released some things in some… odd ways, and without every region knowing or acknowledging those moves?
The excellent Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, for instance, has got a PC port. The only place I’ve ever seen it, and purchased it from, was Gamersgate.com; one of those non-Steam and non-GOG competitors that share their 1% of the market against Valve’s monopoly and CD Projekt’s solid little success.
I don’t even think Sega knows THEY MADE IT.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find other things like that, tbh. They’re a very unorganized entity, it seems.
Persona 5, please
Phantasy star online 2.
I hope football manager is not affected in any way by this.
Come on pc gamers start a petition for some console ports
They wont need to it looks like the Console devs are moving over to PC.
https://steamdb.info/forum/129/
😉
I wrote that petition, thanks for the plug!
“SEGA of America”
we love you too SEGA
Dear Sega, we want Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War III. Thank you.
It’s also on Amazon. They are looking into a Steam release last I heard.
https://www.change.org/p/atlus-please-consider-releasing-persona-5-for-pc?just_created=true