J T wrote:With so much yen bleeding out of Sega, and a pretty good looking list of releases, one has to wonder if this is more the fault of the business management than the products.
It's probably the bussiness management side, 7 billion is too much money to blame on the games. Sure, many were not particularly succesful and some were outright failures, but I can't phantom how they can add up to such a huge loss because their budget wasn't as big.
Anyways, I hope Sega doesn't die (Again). Right now, Sega is providing us with well-made, non-cookie cutter games that are interesting. The modern sega is what I would call a
good company, surely better than Activison or EA, and I see their treatment of creativity to be indicative of good treatment of their IPs if they release them again, which they will sooner or later.
If Sega dies again, we won't see a decent Streets of Rage again. The IP will either get lost forever, bought for someone who only wants to milk it with a bland cash-in or fail miserable with a mediocre game and be forgotten forever. Sega has the chance of seeing their IPs brought back in full force.
If Sega dies again, stuff like Space Harrier or Fantasy Zone will dissapear forever because they are not "big names".
