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Forums - Gaming - Ryan Drummond, old voice actor of Sonic the Hedgehog, speaks out on SEGA: "They do not give a damn about what fans want. They only care about what makes them money"

mjk45 on 16 April 2015
alternine said:
ktay95 said:


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

Microsoft would ruin the company. Look at its franchises and then look where they sell.

Sonic - Dead
Miku - Dead
Yakuza - Dead
Phantasy Star - Dead
A bunch of their other smaller franchises like Stella Glow, 7th Dragon, Shining etc. Stuff like that, all dead.

Oh and then we have all of Atlus' stuff... yeah Im sure thats going to sell enough over on MS systems to be profitable

Unless of course you think Japanese gamers all of a sudden are going to start buying Xbox just for Sega =P

At least thier PC titles might be fine.


Yakuza isn't dead.

Regarding  Yakuza my thoughts exactly , still they lost me when they went for the cheap option with Valkyria Chronicles 2 , rather than getting behind the series after the success of the first game , knowing it had (based on a steady sales pattern) a strong word of mouth and room to grow.

Instead they just saw the Japanese sales and not the upside coming from the west , they should have kept the series on PS3 while looking at an eventual move to multiplat , they could then either have done a port or made a PSP specific title for the handheld market ,but as usually happens short term gains trump longer term ambition.

They thought it was just a mainly japanese game and so they would keep it there and at the same time do it cheaper on the PSP and look at it now .



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KingCherry on 16 April 2015
shikamaru317 said:

I could have told you that. Sega stopped caring about what the fans wanted awhile ago, it's pretty clear to see. That's why they're sitting on a treasure trove of classic IP's, doing absolutely nothing with them. All they do now is milk their most successful franchises for every dime they're worth (Sonic, Football Manager, Total War, Hatsune Miku).

But Football Manager & Total War (amongst others) aren't even SEGA franchises, they just bought out the studios who created the cash cows mentioned... So what exactly are SEGA doing???



Cloudman on 16 April 2015

If they`re trying to make money with their products, then they are doing a terrible job. They haven`t done a very good job with their games, aside from the Miku games. It goes to show that Sega doesn`t really have a clue what they`re doing, which is why they are in their current state.



 

              

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Tachikoma on 16 April 2015

They were beating a dead horse with sonic cd, everything else is just necrophilia.



Samus Aran on 16 April 2015
shikamaru317 said:

I could have told you that. Sega stopped caring about what the fans wanted awhile ago, it's pretty clear to see. That's why they're sitting on a treasure trove of classic IP's, doing absolutely nothing with them. All they do now is milk their most successful franchises for every dime they're worth (Sonic, Football Manager, Total War, Hatsune Miku).

But is Sonic really a succesful franchise anymore? I see people call Bloodborne or Dark Souls niche all the time, but Sonic wishes he had sales like that these days.



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Proxy-Pie on 16 April 2015

They aren't doing a good job at it, either.



Samus Aran on 16 April 2015

The sad thing is, Mario does speed better than Sonic ever has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYAkLBXMHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZEyGT3LUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBWNN0RbGl8



Fusioncode on 16 April 2015

lmao Sega is so worthless nowadays.



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Maraccuda on 17 April 2015

Im pretty sure every company is about making money rather than pleasing fans.
Remember; 'you can make some people happy some of the time, but you can make a crap load of cash when no effort is made and marketed well'.

Seriously, this isnt the least bit surprising.



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HollyGamer on 17 April 2015

Nah they will get bankrupt as soon they focusing more on pachinko and gambling lol, They have relation with the real Yakuza. So i know where they will end up.