SEGA Forever, a growing collection of classic games, was announced for mobile today. The catalog will expand in the months and years ahead, with each game offering new elements like leaderboards.

What’s interesting about SEGA Forever is that it’s being handled almost entirely with Unity. This was an intentional move, as SEGA Networks’ chief marketing officer Mike Evans told GamesIndustry that doing so “enables us to take this content to other platforms”. Evans even specifically mentions Switch in his remarks.

He said:

“About 90% of the games so far are in Unity. The reason we chose Unity as middleware is it enables us to take this content to other platforms as well. So my first focus is mobile. It’s a huge project and what I really want to do is get mobile right. After this, there are options: we can look at desktop, Facebook, we could even take these games to consoles like Switch.”

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So, the games are apparently free? How do they make a profit on it? Will there be ads? Or will you have a limited amount of playtime?

So, I wonder if a lot of people are just going to use emulators and ROMs instead, then.

It will be everything. I posted a survey about this awhile ago and it pretty much gave it away.

Maybe sega will finally port shining force 3 to something...🤞

If they do but it on Switch they better lose the ads and just have it sold at a price. I'm sure Nintendo wouldn't allow ads in their games anyway.

Well, I have the "SEGA Mega Drive Collection" with 28 games (PSP/Vita) and the "SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics" with 49 games (Steam), so I'm good at home and on the go.

Yeah, I really like Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.

I hope Sega Forever is on Nintendo Switch Online subscription service included in $20 per year, all Sega systems like video said- Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Gear!

I'm good, I've got the collection on PC Sega.