SEGA planning "Revival of major IPs" in road to 2020

How many times do I have to spin on the spot, and say "don't ruin Streets of Rage" to make sure it doesn't happen?

Do I have to make the blood sacrifice too? I've run out of virgins. I'm sure I could find a slightly used hooker.

 

Jet Set Radio 3 when

 

ASK SEGA HIDEKI NAGANUMA

 

Gimme a solid attempt at a new Golden Axe, and I'm sold. Beast Rider succs dicc.

 

I'm all for another SoR and Golden Axe, and how about a new console Shinobi game now that the last real Ninja Gaiden game was five-ish years ago?

+ - supermonkeyballswhen  

 

Another Streets of Rage, or NiGHTS done right, would be cool.

Also… what's with the first words in this post being "Square Enix" instead of "Sega"?

 

Just give me NiGHTS and Jet Set Radio and I'll never ask Sega for anything ever again.

 

Out of any internal Sega Team, they'd be the ones I'd trust most. I always thought Platinum would've done a good job too.

Although in all honesty the thought of a "modern" SoR repels me about as much as most modern Sonic stuff does.

...Now an SoR4 in the same vein as Mania? Does anyone know what Bomberlink is doing now?

 

After Mania's hype (and hopefully its success), a Streets of Rage Mania based on Bomberlink's Remake is the next logical step to IP revival. Although that Sega Australia concept a while back where Shinobi, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage were blended into a single universe sounded cool, too.

 

Ecco III - it's way overdue and I need it in my life.

 

I would love to see Monkey Ball revived from the dead, but it needs to move away from the tackle console gimmick approach that plagued it past Super Monkey Ball 2. I wouldn't mind seeing NiGHTs and JSR come back from the dead either.

 

There's always Paprium

http://youtu.be/f3CTqTzkgZQ

I doubt that we'll get a lot of older IP's back, but I wouldn't mind seeing a new entry into Dreamcast era stuff like Arcadia or Jet Set Radio. NiGHTs could very well come back too.

 

Jet Set Radio 2 on any non-Xbox system when. =|

 

I would love to see Ecco make a return too. Such a beautiful, atmospheric game.

 

Does Jet Set Radio even count as a "major" intellectual property. Two fifteen year old games that probably didn't sell well.


No the trick is always to make brand new material suitable for Western audiences. Because then the Sega brand becomes the marketable asset, not the product. Otherwise you risk these.


Typically a good starting point is "I have an interesting idea for a game", not "let's bring back the Streets of Rage name - game concept later".

 

Probably not. But by that standard how many of their old IPs are major then? If not JSR that basically excludes NiGHTs, Comix Zone, Vectorman, Billy Hatcher, hell basically anything outside of Monkey Ball, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage. A lot of Sega's unique IPs were 1 offs that probably didn't sell that well.

 

How about the arcade titles? Virtua Fighter, Out Run, After Burner, Space Harrier, Fantasy Zone... Admittedly a lot of games like that might have trouble "expanding" to a full price game in this day and age, but new games based on those IPs may work well in the digital sphere. I always had an image in my mind of how Quartet would've worked really well as a small, 4 player online title when games like Castle Crashers were making a splash.

We know they're currently making Daytona 3, a home port of that released digitally would be rather nice down the line.

I always hoped after Sega released After Burner Climax they'd think of porting more of their newer arcade games for digital distribution, like Let's Go Jungle. But I know deep down that'd be just chucking money down a hole, as me and about 4 people would be the only ones that cared.


To me, Sega were always an arcade company first and foremost - Heck, even now it's Segas amusement divisions which post the profit every year whilst the consumer side is almost always in the red.