SEGA's Grand Vision For PlaySEGA. Confirmed by UK Retro Gamer Mag Ed.

Ok wait, if you stating that the whole success of this program hinges on Saturn and DC prospects - can we extrapolate the interest in such games from the sales figures of say...Soul Calibur on xbox live? I don't remember SC being a million seller - and it should be a fair comparison given that it was one of the best selling games on the DC

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Jack
 
According to the article they have even bigger plans beyond SATURN and Dreamcast.

There's SEGA's software libraries for the GBA, NDS, PSP, PS2.

Later when technology allows they could add GC, XBox, Wii and beyond...
 
brain_stew said:
Maybe not flash but browser games in general? Absolutely. See O3D and the like.
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How does it work? Have you seen complex applications/games running in it? There are videos of demos around. can a game like Code Veronic or Shenmue be playable through it withought haveing to download hundreds of MBs?
 
TEXAN* said:
According to the article they have even bigger plans beyond SATURN and Dreamcast.

There's SEGA's software libraries for the GBA, NDS, PSP, PS2.

Later when technology allows they could add GC, XBox, Wii and beyond...
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It is absolutely pure speculation. It really depends on how successful playSega service becomes. If Sega is actually going to release Saturn and DC games on that service, then Sega would have announced it long time ago.

Also, change the subject of the thread, it is not confirmed unless it is confirmed by Sega.
 
Here are the Master System SEGA games I want SEGA adding to PlaySEGA -

Wonder Boy III
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Kenseiden
Choplifter
Fantasy Zone 1
Fantasy Zone 2
Penguin Land
Zillion
Phantasy Star
Ys
Golvellius: Valley of Doom
Golden Axe Warrior
Psycho Fox
Out Run
Battle Out Run
Sonic Chaos
Power Strike 1
Power Strike 2
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Time Soldiers
Ghost House
Kung Fu Kid
 
Jack_Tripper said:
Wait Wait Wait Wait Wait

Are you telling me that Sega is seeing such a response from their Wii VC and the $20 for 200 game complilations released (for every piece of hardware out there from the PS3/360 - PSP) - they've just got that many sales that they've said "Hey - we need to release these game for sale on the PC too!" - that's what you're telling me?

It seems like Sega is hitting thier core demographic already on plenty of consoles by reselling their 20-year old games...why would they need another venue?

And why would we need other hardware to run Sega Games ever? The PS3/360 can emulate even the DC games just fine...and newer arcade games are just being released as standalone titles...(like Virtua Fighter)...

This idea makes 0 sense to me...

Jack
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Their old school games are already on PC. Look at Gametap.
 
Here are the Saturn SEGA games I want SEGA adding to PlaySEGA -

Astal
Baku Baku Animal
Bug!
Bug Too!
Burning Rangers
Christmas Nights Into Dreams
Clockwork Knight
Clockwork Knight 2
Daytona USA
Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition
Decathlete
Deep Fear
Die Hard Arcade
Fighters Megamix
Fighting Vipers
Golden Axe: The Duel
Guardian Heroes
In The Hunt
The House of the Dead
Last Bronx
Legend of Oasis
Manx TT SuperBike
Nights into Dreams...
Panzer Dragoon
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
Panzer Dragoon Saga
Sega Rally Championship
Sega Touring Car Championship
Sega Worldwide Soccer '97
Sega Worldwide Soccer '98
Shining Force III
Shining the Holy Ark
Shining Wisdom
Shinobi Legions
Sonic R
Steep Slope Sliders
Virtua Cop
Virtua Cop 2
Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter 2
Virtua Fighter Kids
Virtual On
Winter Heat
 
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$120 a year vs $35 year.
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Maybe I'm missing the trick here, but that sounds like an admittance of defeat to me. SEGA believe they are going to make more money with $35 annual subscriptions from a few million at best subscribers, than they do with their current console titles? That's what, $100 million a year. Do they not even make that with the Wii titles etc.? And how long do they think people will subscribe to play these old titles? Surely after a couple of years, that well will have dried up. If they want to continue as a software company, they need to be creating software. And if they're doing that, the existing and future download distribution methods seem a better market to me, as established, whereas a proprietary service will need to compete with these other services for attention.
 
Again, it doesn't stop at DC & SAT, according to the article SEGA's future plans for the service are far far grander. There will come a day when brand new games are developed exclusively for PlaySEGA and not for propriety boxes that sit under televisions.
 
Well... may be so. But the boxes under the TV would evolve at the same time. In the end, assuming the businesses are (still) viable, we will get more choices and different flavor of gaming in different channels. Don't be surprised when the PlaySEGA plan changes or get subsumed under something else though.
 
Here are the Dreamcast SEGA games SEGA should add to PlaySEGA.

4 Wheel Thunder
18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker
Blue Stinger
Confidential Mission
Cosmic Smash
Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi 2
Daytona USA 2001
Dynamite Cop 2
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
F355 Challenge: Passione Rossa
Fighting Vipers 2
Headhunter
The House of the Dead 2
Jet Grind Radio
Metropolis Street Racer
Ooga Booga
Outtrigger
Seaman
Sega Bass Fishing
Sega Bass Fishing 2
Sega GT 2000 Sega Sega
Sega Marine Fishing
Sega Rally Championship 2
Sega Smash
Sega Swirl
Segagaga
Shenmue
Shenmue II
Skies of Arcadia
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Shuffle
Space Channel 5
Space Channel 5 Part 2
Sports Jam
Tennis 2K2
Time Stalkers
Toy Commander
The Typing of the Dead
Under Defeat
Virtua Cop 2
Virtua Fighter 3TB
Virtua Striker 2
Virtua Tennis
Zombie Revenge
 
TEXAN* said:
Again, it doesn't stop at DC & SAT, according to the article SEGA's future plans for the service are far far grander. There will come a day when brand new games are developed exclusively for PlaySEGA and not for propriety boxes that sit under televisions.
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Yes, but what is the reasoning for not releasing brand new games on PSN and XBLive!, and all the other distribution things going? This is like Sony BMG saying they're no longer going to release on iTunes etc., instead creating their own proprietary store. And then Warner Brothers saying they'll no longer support DVDs/BRDs and Netflix services, instead creating their own proprietary download service.
 
Shifty Geezer said:
Yes, but what is the reasoning for not releasing brand new games on PSN and XBLive!, and all the other distribution things going? This is like Sony BMG saying they're no longer going to release on iTunes etc., instead creating their own proprietary store. And then Warner Brothers saying they'll no longer support DVDs/BRDs and Netflix services, instead creating their own proprietary download service.
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How many people are connected to the net vs the 360/PS3 combined global userbase?
 
How many of those connected to the net buy download PC games, such that all the games companies are chasing the PC market instead of spending on developing console games?
 
Shifty Geezer said:
Yes, but what is the reasoning for not releasing brand new games on PSN and XBLive!, and all the other distribution things going? This is like Sony BMG saying they're no longer going to release on iTunes etc., instead creating their own proprietary store. And then Warner Brothers saying they'll no longer support DVDs/BRDs and Netflix services, instead creating their own proprietary download service.
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The reasoning would be to have complete control of the revenues they get without paying royalties and avoid being subject of market fragmentation due to various consoles being released.

The market they are after here are those that spend hours and hours over the internet playing games through their browsers.

Then again I dont see any reason why they would leave completely the console market if they can develop different games for consoles than those for PlaySega.

Unless Sega has shrunk too much and can no longer produce or finance high quality games of high production values that can compete with the big player game software companies.

Probably they might sometimes act as publishers for some console games, and mostly as developers for PlaySega games.
 
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