Oh now! Say it ain’t so! Sega’s mysterious and vague “Super Game” is… dead? I’m afraid so, kiddo, so bust out the shovel. This Super Game has been a part of Sega’s long-term strategy for a while now, in fact it was even meant to be out by the end of the last fiscal year. That didn’t happen! Sega even said their goal was to “create a game so revolutionary that it attracts far more active users than any of the Group’s games to date.” Except as of the studio’s latest financial results, this is all coming to a head, as the game has been cancelled.
This comes as part of an overall review of Sega’s games as a service strategy. Namely, it’s not been going well; their newer free-to-play games like Sonic Rumble Party haven’t performed very well, for one, with Sega not having found much economic value through their work with Rovio. And delaying some of these free-to-play games hasn’t helped either. As a result of the poor performance of free-to-play games, over 100 staffers have been moved over to a “full game development team focusing on the mainstay IPs.”
The financial report isn’t all doom and gloom, as several reboots of older, beloved, “remember when you were younger and you loved these games” games are still on the table. That includes the likes of a new Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, and most threateningly of all, Jet Set Radio. I’ll continue to wonder if any of these are necessary, though, particularly on the lattermost game. In a world where we have Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and its more online, social focused upcoming sequel Hyperfunk, I’m not sure if we need to look backwards.
It’s entirely possible we’ll see any one of those games, or even that new Virtua Fighter and recently teased Alien: Isolation sequel within the next fiscal year, as the report also states they plan to “launch four new titles based on mainstay IPs” in its Q3 2027 Fiscal Year forecast. Riveting buzzwords, I know, but the prospect of not being very far off an Alien: Isolation sequel is admittedly just a little bit tantalising. Just a little bit!
