Jet Set Radio Reboot (Live Service)

Jet Set Radio Remake (Not Live Service)

Crazy Taxi Reboot (Live Service)

Crazy Taxi Remake (Not Live Service)

Let’s just hope the remakes real and are good.

  • @bozo
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    354 months ago

    This feels like Sega is running a science experiment to conclusively determine how much more money can be made from the live service format, with a control group and everything.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      174 months ago

      Im frequently been surprised by their choices for years, since at least 2005. Like some companies, you KNOW what they’re like. They do consistent impressive work like FromSoft, Nintendo, Valve. Some companies do consistent work that can be hit/miss, like Capcom. And others just do consistent work that gets a lot of shitty management decisions, like Ubisoft.

      Sega doesn’t fit any of those buckets. No consistency except that they’re not consistent. You don’t know what a Sega title will bring. Like they rotate management every week.

      • @dumpsterlid
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        Sega doesn’t fit any of those buckets. No consistency except that they’re not consistent. You don’t know what a Sega title will bring. Like they rotate management every week.

        Yeah this is a result of Sega’s management strategy where all the employees line up outside in the morning along one of the business obstacle courses. Whoever can run through the course fastest and collect the most coins gets to be CEO for the day. Is it chaotic and ableist? Yeah sure, but it does ensure that if a bear attacked the office that Sega employees would be well trained to deal with the emergency. Also, it isn’t THAT much less efficient than having utterly useless out of touch CEOs running the company who don’t give a shit about their customers or the artistic merit of what they are making. At least with this system sometimes the good thing happens amid all the chaos.

        Does Sega spend inordinate amounts of money on building elaborate obstacle courses that have nothing to do with their core products? Yes, but remember all that money and more would just be going to CEO bonuses and stock buybacks for investors at a normal large company, building obstacle courses is comparatively a much more efficient and equitable way to allocate profits (not to mention there is a much smaller carbon footprint to building obstacle courses vs. yachts).

        • Rentlar
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          54 months ago

          Do they have large red and yellow springs instead of elevators?

          • @dumpsterlid
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            34 months ago

            Well there are elevators but they purposefully aren’t turned on until 10:30am after the morning upper management selection process has concluded for the day.