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

Maybe not flash but browser games in general? Absolutely. See O3D and the like.

 

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



Jack

 

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?

 

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.

 

Their old school games are already on PC. Look at Gametap.

 

and access to what? 100000 more games

Jack

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

More like 80 for a full year, and with access to much more.

 

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.