[RenyNoise]

Looks like Sonic Runners is the biggest Sonic game we can look forward to huh? Boom didn't help at all.

[TheKazeblade]

It's time for Sega to go quiet into that dark night. With such little backing to really push their franchises into success, they just need to sell their IP off and disappear. Sega and Sammy make plenty of money from their pachinko and whatnot, so Sammy is getting next to nothing from keeping Sega around. Sell the IP, sell Atlas, maybe sell Sonic Team as well. Maybe someone else out there will actually make use of lapsed franchises like the Shining series, Gunstar Heroes, Vectorman, Shenmue, Panzer Dragoon, Billy Hatcher, freaking Phantasy Star... Sega has so many viable franchises that they just don't have the financial or creative backing to put out that could be a gold mine in the right hands.

This post has been edited by TheKazeblade: 30 January 2015 - 11:17 AM

[JaxTH]

I'm really fucking tired of the whole of the internet saying SEGA needs to sell FUCKING EVERYTHING when they lose even a dollar.

[TimmiT]

RenyNoise, on 30 January 2015 - 11:13 AM, said:

Looks like Sonic Runners is the biggest Sonic game we can look forward to huh? Boom didn't help at all.

Sonic's fine, it's primarily the publishing and arcade divisions that are affected.

[TheKazeblade]

JaxTH, on 30 January 2015 - 11:32 AM, said:

I'm really fucking tired of the whole of the internet saying SEGA needs to sell FUCKING EVERYTHING when they lose even a dollar.

Would that really be a terrible thing? Further, it's fairly obvious at this point Sega's losing a lot more than just a dollar. 300 is a lot of unemployed people.

This post has been edited by TheKazeblade: 30 January 2015 - 11:50 AM

[Lanzer]

TimmiT, on 30 January 2015 - 11:48 AM, said:

RenyNoise, on 30 January 2015 - 11:13 AM, said:

Looks like Sonic Runners is the biggest Sonic game we can look forward to huh? Boom didn't help at all.

Sonic's fine, it's primarily the publishing and arcade divisions that are affected.

Publishing? can you expand on that?

[TimmiT]

Lanzer, on 30 January 2015 - 11:59 AM, said:

TimmiT, on 30 January 2015 - 11:48 AM, said:

RenyNoise, on 30 January 2015 - 11:13 AM, said:

Looks like Sonic Runners is the biggest Sonic game we can look forward to huh? Boom didn't help at all.

Sonic's fine, it's primarily the publishing and arcade divisions that are affected.

Publishing? can you expand on that?

Basically, SEGA of America. SEGA Europe maybe a little, but it's mostly SEGA America and arcade stuff.

[Jason]

The scary part is that according to the report, Sega has only 100 million yen in capital. That's roughly US$850,000. That sounds like a dangerously low amount for what I perceive as still a large corporation.

This post has been edited by Jason: 30 January 2015 - 12:13 PM

[Dark Sonic]

JaxTH, on 30 January 2015 - 11:32 AM, said:

I'm really fucking tired of the whole of the internet saying SEGA needs to sell FUCKING EVERYTHING when they lose even a dollar.

Don't care. I don't like Sega as a company. Kinda want them to go away.

[TimmiT]

Dark Sonic, on 30 January 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

JaxTH, on 30 January 2015 - 11:32 AM, said:

I'm really fucking tired of the whole of the internet saying SEGA needs to sell FUCKING EVERYTHING when they lose even a dollar.

Don't care. I don't like Sega as a company. Kinda want them to go away.

They should sell Sonic to Capcom, Phantasy Star and Shining to Square Enix, and Yakuza and Puyo Puyo to Ubisoft.

Jason, on 30 January 2015 - 12:10 PM, said:

The scary part is that according to the report, Sega has only 100 million yen in capital. That's roughly US$850,000. That sounds like a dangerously low amount for what I perceive as still a large corporation.

It sure is a good thing that the far richer SEGA Sammy is the part that does the buying and selling.

This post has been edited by TimmiT: 30 January 2015 - 12:29 PM

[Yeow]

Dark Sonic, on 30 January 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

JaxTH, on 30 January 2015 - 11:32 AM, said:

I'm really fucking tired of the whole of the internet saying SEGA needs to sell FUCKING EVERYTHING when they lose even a dollar.

Don't care. I don't like Sega as a company. Kinda want them to go away.

Same here. I don't know why anyone would still have faith in this company (let alone have them still exist) if they're still putting out rushed piles of shitfests like Boom: Rise of Lyric and Aliens: Colonial Marines despite being lambasted for releasing Sonic 06 in the state it was in a mere 6/8 years ago.

This post has been edited by Yeow: 30 January 2015 - 12:40 PM

[Tiller]

Sonic may be the frontrunner (ha), but Sega as a whole hasn't been doing swell in other areas. It's turning more profit on its niche and mobile games than its bigger gambles, plus they refuse to localize things that actually would sell over here. Sonic can at least break even most of the time no matter how garbage his games get but Sega's other properties aren't so fortunate. They might get little victories like VC on PC, Aliens Isolation, and Transformed but they need a hell of a lot of them to pile up in order to stay where they are. That or they shrink themselves so the niche can sustain them.

This post has been edited by Tiller: 30 January 2015 - 12:39 PM

[TimmiT]

Yeow, on 30 January 2015 - 12:29 PM, said:

Dark Sonic, on 30 January 2015 - 12:21 PM, said:

JaxTH, on 30 January 2015 - 11:32 AM, said:

I'm really fucking tired of the whole of the internet saying SEGA needs to sell FUCKING EVERYTHING when they lose even a dollar.

Don't care. I don't like Sega as a company. Kinda want them to go away.

Same here. I don't know why anyone would still have faith in this company (let alone have them still exist) if they're still putting out rushed piles of shitfests like Boom: Rise of Lyric and Aliens: Colonial Marines despite being lambasted for releasing Sonic 06 in the state it was in a mere 6/8 years ago.

Recently the bad stuff SEGA has put out has mainly come from SEGA America though. SEGA Europe has been pretty good with the exception of the mobile games that have far too many microtransactions Hardlight puts out, and recently put out Alien Isolation. SEGA Japan has also been putting out good stuff like Phantasy Star Online 2, the Yakuza games and Puyo Puyo Tetris, though the Shining series has become something completely different from what it used to be. The main problem with them is that not enough of their games are localized.

[magishun]

I sure wish the community had a few rich people in it. I wouldn't mind if Retro bought the rights to Sonic.

[TimmiT]

magishun, on 30 January 2015 - 12:38 PM, said:

I sure wish the community had a few rich people in it. I wouldn't mind if Retro bought the rights to Sonic.

Donate and we'll try to buy the rights to Blinx the Time Sweeper!