SEGA Cancelled Their “Super Game”?!

Let's go. I've been following this news story chat for like 5 years. This showed up on an investor's report back in like 2021 maybe or some bonkers [ __ ] where Sega had something on their investors report of this super game. A game to transcend a game that would bring all of us all Sega fans like some it was so it sounded so crazy where it's like dude what the hell is a super game? What are we talking about here? It never amounted to a thing that made any sense where it's like the first quadruple a game. So anyway, it's canceled. Sega cancels Mysterious Super Game 5 years after it was announced amid pullback from underperforming freeto play. Crazy. Sega's confirmed it canceled its mysterious super game as part of a companywide pullback from free-to-play following week sales. The weird part is that we were thinking this this was a part of their super game initiative which included a lot of the other projects that were in there like Crazy Taxi, Jetet Radio, Golden Axe, like all those games are still around. Sega's Super Game was never made entirely clear, although Sega has said it was due by the end of March 2026. When the project was announced in 2021, it formed part of a long-term initiative that also involved new firstperson shooters developed at the European studio. Lots of industry buzzwords were used to describe what Sega was going for, such as global and online, make it into media IP utilization. It sounded like it was going to be like Sega's Fortnite. Like, we're making like our own Fortnite, and if you like buy Sega games, you somehow maybe could contribute to it. I don't know. Maybe that's what was in my head. Ambitious sales target for Super Game bringing in at least $634 million across its lifetime. News on the Super Game has been thin. However, in November of 2021, Sega said it was thinking about investing up to $882 million over 5 years to make Super Game a success. Then, in November 23, Sega said it was making steady headway on Super Game, teasing it involved the concept of a game that stands head and shoulders above normal games. There was also talk of it involving the entire game. Yeah, this is what I mean. the entire gaming ecosystem including not only players but also streamers who stream like what the it was insane. We were like what is super game? What is it naturally fascinating is what it was especially cuz Sega is very very much not the company to have like a super game you know 5 years after it was announced super game is gone. Sega's free-to-play rethink steams from or stems from a weak performance of Sonic Rumble Party, significant financial struggles with Angry Birds, um, and various delays. Sega said no additional costs were associated with the cancellation of Super Game, but over 100 people who were on the free-to-play development have been transferred to what Sega calls normal game or full game development to focus on mainstay IPs. Good. Cancellation has not impacted development of the various reboots Sega has in the works. Woo! New Virtual Fighters, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Jetset Radio, Crazy Taxi, On the list of full upcoming gameplay titles, that of which have almost all gone completely into Exile. H other full games titles Sega has confirmed to be coming at some point are uh Stranger Than Heaven, Medieval, uh Total War 3, Total War Camp Warhammer, Alien Isolation 2, Persona 4 Revival. That's right, that is all under Sega. Sega has a long list of upcoming movies based on IP2. Sonic 4, Angry Birds Movie 3, Golden Act, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Eternal, Eternal Champions. What the hell? House of A long list of upcoming movies based on its IP. You're telling me Wait, are you telling me that Sega is making an Eternal Champions movie? That's insane. That seems actually crazy. Another House of the Dead movie would definitely be a call. Golden Axe movie, bro. What? I did hear something about an Outrun movie, which is weird. Is this a movie about Ferraris driving on beaches? Like what? Okay. How do you make a movie about that? Um, I don't see Fantasy Star Online remake on here. Unfortunately, I do not see the revival of Fantasy Star Online. Sega provided a comment to Game File on the decision to cancel Super Game development in light of intensifying market competition, emergence of competing titles based on similar concepts, and are Oh. Oh, this some Highguard [ __ ] Oh, this is them looking at the market of other games that tried to jump into this space and are doing the exact same thing and then like bombing and then putting way too much money into it and being like, "Oh, so that was our plan too." No additional cost associated with cancelling. When we launched the initiative in 2019, we positioned two major pillars on our growth to focus on major IP and expand them and to develop a AAA online title to achieve significant growth in mid and long term. We named this project Supergame to reflect our strong commitment to pursuing this ambition. Leveraging the expertise of developing and operating online games we cultivated through PSO2 and our expertise and our extensive IP portfolio, we worked to create a new form of entertainment that goes beyond the concepts of conventional games. Given the ambitious nature of the project, we adopted a long-term R&D phase for technical validation and relating activities. We proceeded cautiously with the intention of moving to full-scale development only after we can confirm sufficient feasibility. However, in light of intensifying market competition, the emergence of competing titles based on similar concepts, and our business condition, we made the decision to discontinue the development of Super Game during the fiscal year ending in March 26. It was likely just a third person shooter. I don't think it was an extraction shooter. Not chat. Extraction shooters were not that big back in like 2019 to 2021. I My issue is that Virtual Fighter is like missing. There's a lot of things for the future. Alien Isolation 2 happening is very cool, but like unless a new Sonic game pops out of nowhere, which isn't big for me personally, but will probably be helpful. Dude, like where what the hell is where Huh? If there is a new Crazy Taxi, if there is a new Golden Axe, like all that kind of stuff, like I don't know. They mentioned VF6. Yeah, VF6 is a part of their new games initiative, but it's not a super game. Upcoming plans, release date, TBD. Yeah. No, it's not on there. That [ __ ] ain't on there, dude. Guys, I have bad news for you. This says fiscal year 2027. You know how long that goes? April of 2028. That's a ways out, dude. None of this [ __ ] is coming out. None of these games are coming out, at least until the earliest span, April next year. The very earliest they could come out is then. We will we will have already played through and be bored of GTA 6 and the Final Fantasy 7 remake series by then. And we will also be maybe even playing the next Capcom fighting game. Heat. Heat.