Sega To Ged Rid Of Sonic Team

[Yobo Ahoy]

Id hate to work for Sega, every two minutes your either getting a new name, new boss, moving offices, being affiliated with another company and so on.

I don't think that's a Sega-exclusive problem.

[Boyatsea]

Think about it what have these guys done apart from butcher the sonic franchise and ruin its reputation?

Its about time Sega took action.

Hopefully the series will be handed over to Amusement Visison and Nagoshi-san.

Sonic Heroes, while crap, is one of SEGA's biggest sellers for years.

They'd be mad to sell them off.

[Ed-E]

Sonic Heroes, while crap, is one of SEGA's biggest sellers for years.

They'd be mad to sell them off.

Sonic Heroes was made by the US Sonic Team, though.

[dismembo]

Sonic Heroes, while crap, is one of SEGA's biggest sellers for years.

They'd be mad to sell them off.

They would presumably be selling off Sonic Team, not Sonic the Hedgehog. New Sonic games could be made by any of SEGA's development teams. I wonder if Sonic Team would have to change their name after being sold?

'The Group formerly known as Sonic Team' perhaps?

[Boyatsea]

Sonic Heroes was made by the US Sonic Team, though.

Indeed, thats why I thought, but it seems the whole devision, whether American or Asian is being sold.

Well, according to people in this thread, anywhoo.

[Comrade]

For fuck's sake, everyone, read the page! And then see the magic word:

RUMOUR

[Mr Spew]

What's your problem?

They're shit.

[Aust]

For fuck's sake, everyone, read the page! And then see the magic word:

MEGATON

OMFG!

(sorry)

[Dimahoo]

Sonic Heroes, whilst graphically nice, in parts, was a mess to play.

The game was far to fast leaving the player with little on no control on things like loops.

Thing is, Sega are still good at Arcade games, but arcade games are dead. So where does that leave them.

Most of their franchises have been poor imitations of their former selves, bar one or two titles.

Bar a few key titles, their Arcade IP is worthless now and they haven't transended into home gaming like Konami or Capcom, or even Irem, all of which have created new genres or perfected existing ones.

Most of their IP has been bettered anyway by bigger titles - or rather, titles of similar nature, but more appealing to the mass market.

Prehaps only Virtual Tennis 2, Outrun 2 and Sonic are all thats left.

Sega really need to get their finger out IMO, but i dunno if Sammy can help them.

[Mr Spew]

Feel the Magic XY/XX? Phantasy Star Online? Headhunter? Super Monkey Ball? Virtua Fighter?

[Dimahoo]

Never saw feel the magic...but Headhunter has been bettered IMO.

SMB was nice but hardly massmarket stuff (enough to keep them going?)

PSO was alright but has serious competetion on the formats, plus, theres hundreds of RPG games, not all online of course.

VF is really for hardcore gamers and hardly had massmarket appeal

I might add i'm guessing this.

[MK-1601]

Sonic Heroes, whilst graphically nice, in parts, was a mess to play.

The game was far to fast leaving the player with little on no control on things like loops.

Thing is, Sega are still good at Arcade games, but arcade games are dead. So where does that leave them.

Most of their franchises have been poor imitations of their former selves, bar one or two titles.

Bar a few key titles, their Arcade IP is worthless now and they haven't transended into home gaming like Konami or Capcom, or even Irem, all of which have created new genres or perfected existing ones.

Most of their IP has been bettered anyway by bigger titles - or rather, titles of similar nature, but more appealing to the mass market.

Prehaps only Virtual Tennis 2, Outrun 2 and Sonic are all thats left.

Sega really need to get their finger out IMO, but i dunno if Sammy can help them.

A generalisation too far, I think.

Sega have their fingers in considerably more pies than Capcom or Konami. They're developing for every platform out there, including still having an arcade presence, which of course is something that has limited exposure over here.

I guess this can give the impression that they're spreading themselves too thin.

As for Sonic Team, I thought they'd been disbanded a while ago. Weren't there some '1991-2004' commemorative keyrings or something?

[Mr Spew]

SMB is getting a release on PS2 and Xbox.

Because Headhunter has been bettered means it's not massmarket? It had a pretty high-profile release in shops.

Feel The Magic sold in droves being a launch title for the DS.

[Tofu]

wow this is like God disowning Jesus....