Wow it is almost like releasing a Sonic game that is no where as good as Mania for 60 dollars a week before Super Mario Wonder was a bad idea.
ParappaTheWrapperr
Between selling a $20 sonic game at full price, and not having a physical version of Like a dragon: Gaiden, when that series is a predominantly physical bought game, it’s almost as if Sega didn’t even look at their consumer and just said fuck it.
I had to import Gaiden because they deemed the entire world except the USA where this game series actually sales, deserved a physical edition except for the one country that buys this game.
Shaggy263
Don’t forget about how they’ve been managing creative assembly too (total war devs). Increasing the price of DLC while adding less content and this is on top of them cancelling hyenas at the last minute before a release, millions down the drain.
I think Sega just like throwing money in the bin.
waiting4thebeginning
Releasing half *ss Sonic games (at a low bar even for Sega) isn’t paying off anymore?
Who would have thought
Trickster289
They did just had a really good month though. Persona 3 Reloaded and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth have both hit a million sales already with Infinite Wealth also being the fastest selling Yakuza/Like a Dragon game.
Quirky_Salamander_42
priced themselves out of the market in total war and 30 something men are not as loyal to their bs as they thought. $25 for a single dlc in TW3 or you can buy Death Stranding rn for $20, Palworld for $29, etc, etc, etc.
calvg
Hopefully fm25 is unaffected as that will be a big one next year.
Phynamite
As someone who just discovered the Yakuza series, they are getting my money. Also Persona is a series I love. Other than that I don’t know if I could tell you a Sega game outside of Sonic.
iMaSlayMan
Hi please somebody give me upvotes so I can post on this sub
nova9001
Amazing company showing us you can keep fucking up and stay in business. I like how they released TW Pharoah with no real improvements over TW3 using the same game engine with the same exact same problems. Like why would anyone play TW Pharoah and not the Tomb Kings faction in TW3?
Meanwhile Hyena was a paid game designed to compete with Fortnite which has a F2P model and was already dominating the genre.
>Hyenas was said to have been Sega’s highest-budget game ever, exceeding the USD $70 million spent on Shenmue in 1999.
Easily $100m + down the drain.
its_merv_not_marv
Nah. Sega games have always been bad or mediocre. They do have a following on some games but what they never counted on was that competition stepped up. There are games right now that are actually worth playing and spending money on. So them throwing their shill into the mix hoping to be included on the gamers buying spree with all good games around. They never counted that gamers are getting smarter. There are choices.
eat_hairy_socks
Sega has been so freaking greedy with the way they make games that this isn’t surprising. Sonic hasn’t been good since Generations. Frontiers was cool but you can feel it lacked polish. Then they released a really expensive Sonic game recently that looked mid and overpriced.
chronicnerv
I agree with a lot of the sentiment in the comments regarding Sega, no idea how they are still going, have always fallen short ever since I played on the mega drive in the 1980s.
Are they a loss leader business or front for some serious money laundering or maybe just Japan has been enough to keep them going.
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Wow it is almost like releasing a Sonic game that is no where as good as Mania for 60 dollars a week before Super Mario Wonder was a bad idea.
Between selling a $20 sonic game at full price, and not having a physical version of Like a dragon: Gaiden, when that series is a predominantly physical bought game, it’s almost as if Sega didn’t even look at their consumer and just said fuck it.
I had to import Gaiden because they deemed the entire world except the USA where this game series actually sales, deserved a physical edition except for the one country that buys this game.
Don’t forget about how they’ve been managing creative assembly too (total war devs). Increasing the price of DLC while adding less content and this is on top of them cancelling hyenas at the last minute before a release, millions down the drain.
I think Sega just like throwing money in the bin.
Releasing half *ss Sonic games (at a low bar even for Sega) isn’t paying off anymore?
Who would have thought
They did just had a really good month though. Persona 3 Reloaded and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth have both hit a million sales already with Infinite Wealth also being the fastest selling Yakuza/Like a Dragon game.
priced themselves out of the market in total war and 30 something men are not as loyal to their bs as they thought. $25 for a single dlc in TW3 or you can buy Death Stranding rn for $20, Palworld for $29, etc, etc, etc.
Hopefully fm25 is unaffected as that will be a big one next year.
As someone who just discovered the Yakuza series, they are getting my money. Also Persona is a series I love. Other than that I don’t know if I could tell you a Sega game outside of Sonic.
Hi please somebody give me upvotes so I can post on this sub
Amazing company showing us you can keep fucking up and stay in business. I like how they released TW Pharoah with no real improvements over TW3 using the same game engine with the same exact same problems. Like why would anyone play TW Pharoah and not the Tomb Kings faction in TW3?
Meanwhile Hyena was a paid game designed to compete with Fortnite which has a F2P model and was already dominating the genre.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyenas_(video_game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyenas_(video_game))
>Hyenas was said to have been Sega’s highest-budget game ever, exceeding the USD $70 million spent on Shenmue in 1999.
Easily $100m + down the drain.
Nah. Sega games have always been bad or mediocre. They do have a following on some games but what they never counted on was that competition stepped up. There are games right now that are actually worth playing and spending money on. So them throwing their shill into the mix hoping to be included on the gamers buying spree with all good games around. They never counted that gamers are getting smarter. There are choices.
Sega has been so freaking greedy with the way they make games that this isn’t surprising. Sonic hasn’t been good since Generations. Frontiers was cool but you can feel it lacked polish. Then they released a really expensive Sonic game recently that looked mid and overpriced.
I agree with a lot of the sentiment in the comments regarding Sega, no idea how they are still going, have always fallen short ever since I played on the mega drive in the 1980s.
Are they a loss leader business or front for some serious money laundering or maybe just Japan has been enough to keep them going.
edit might have been early 90s thinking about it.