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[bouzane]

IamAwsome said:

bouzane said:

SEGA only had a handful of successful franchises over the years and they didn't manage them very well. I'd focus on the few series that have some mainstream potential:

Internal Studios:

CS1 R&D - Streets of Rage 4
CS2 R&D - Sonic Colors 2 (co-developed with Dimps)
CS3 R&D - Valkyria Chronicles IV
Sports R&D - Crazy Taxi 1 & 2 ports
AM R&D - Virtua Tennis 5
The Creative Assembly - Empire II: Total War
Sports Interactive - Football Manager 2016
Three Rings Design - Phantasy Star Gaiden remake
Hardlight Studio - Golden Axe IV
Relic Entertainment - Warhammer 40k - Dawn of War III
Atlus - Persona R
Demiurge Studios - Valkyria Chronicles II & III ports

SEGA has a lot of affiliate studios that they are neglecting and Westone is in the process of liquidation. I'd step in and acquire Wonderboy and the team responsible for the series (if possible):

Affiliate Studios:

Westone Bit Entertainment - Wonderboy 7
Camelot Software Planning - Shining Force III demake
Dimps - Sonic Colors 2 (co-developed with CS2 R&D)

If Sega has all of these studios then why aren't they releasing games?

The thing is, SEGA is releasing tons of games... that nobody cares about. Last year they put out:

Alien: Isolation
Company of Heroes 2 DLC
Crazy Taxi: City Rush
Football Manager 2015
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F 2nd
Initial D Arcade Stage 8 Infinity
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Project 575
Transformers: Human Alliance
World of End Eclipse
World of Three Kingdoms
Yakuza: Ishin

This list is excluding late localizations, ports and less noteworthy mobile games. A lot of these titles have zero marketability and should never have been developed over franchises such as the Streets of Rage, Phantasy Star, Sonic or Monkey Ball. Compounding the problem is how they often botch titles that could have had potential such as Crazy Taxi: City Rush.

@ generic-user-1

"Creative assembly is working on warhammer:tw not  empire 2"

Which I think is a huge mistake. After Company of Heroes 2's lackluster reception I'd refocus that studio on Warhammer and leave Creative Assembly to develop a new Empire Total War because of how popular the original was.

@Stellar_Fungk

"Does CSP still have any kind of partnership with SEGA? I mean they have only made Nintendo games since late 90s (Mario sport games and Golden Sun)."

You're right, CPS and SEGA haven't been partners for many years sadly. It's not like Shining Force was ever popular so I guess that project should be ignored altogether.