Sega’s new interview consisted of three of the company’s higher-ups, including Executive Vice President Shuji Utsumi, discussing the future of the “Super Game.” The exact nature of it is still rather uncertain, but it seems to be a multiplatform AAA release that will seemingly play host to smaller games contained within it, not entirely unlike Roblox.
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Utsumi said that there are several games already being developed within the framework of the company’s “Super Game” and that each needs to meet four main criteria for it to qualify as such. Namely, projects built within “Super Game” need to be multiplatform, aim for a parallel global release schedule, be AAA-grade titles, and offer global multi-language development. Though Roblox is the most valuable gaming company in the world, its games generally don’t offer the level of quality of a modern AAA title, which is the niche that Sega might now be hoping to fill.
The interview also offered some information on how development of the “Super Game” platform itself is going. At this time, there seem to be roughly 50 people involved with the project, though Sega expects this number to balloon to include several hundreds of employees before all is said and done. It may be interesting to note that Sega recently left the arcade business for good and that the company might be aiming to reinvent itself by offering a comprehensive AAA-tier gaming platform to rival Roblox.
Further still, it seems that Sega is still experimenting with NFTs. As per the interview, NFTs and cloud gaming are two key technologies that the “Super Game” may leverage for some of its offerings, and Sega seems to be using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to facilitate these features. Sega also previously pointed out that it wouldn’t use NFTs if the company decides that the technology doesn’t align with its standards.
While it’s a given that not every Sega project will be implemented into the company’s fledgling gaming platform, it may be worth keeping track of some of its recent endeavors, now that more is known about the project. Sega opened a new studio under Phantasy Star Online 2 producer at the start of 2022 and, while nothing is confirmed or even hinted at as of yet, it very well may end up being the case that this is one of Sega’s new “Super Game” studios in the end.
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