{"id":78278,"date":"2015-07-08T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78278"},"modified":"2015-07-08T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:56:19","slug":"sega-wants-us-to-love-them-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/78278-sega-wants-us-to-love-them-again","title":{"rendered":"Sega wants us to love them again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nowadays, it appears that Sega is only known for\u00a0Sonic\u00a0<\/em>games, and making bad\u00a0Sonic\u00a0<\/em>games at that.<\/p>\n

Of course, not being totally incompetent, they have published excellent games like\u00a0Alien: Isolation,\u00a0<\/em>but sadly, they don’t seem do be doing much in the way of good game development themselves.<\/p>\n

There are so many awesome franchises Sega could bring back from the brink, as we have suggested before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It often feels as if Sega has it out for its fans. However, it seems that\u00a0someone at\u00a0Sega has realised that they have lost the plot and wants to regain gamers and fans trust.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Famitsu, Sega CEO and president Hajime Satomi talked about the\u00a0quality of future Sega games, and had this to say:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been talking to the employees about how we should start putting serious consideration into quality from this point on, especially in North America and Europe, where it\u2019s always been more of a focus on schedules, I believe that if we can\u2019t maintain quality, it would be better to not release anything at all\u2026We did our best to build a relationship of mutual trust with older fans of Sega, but looking back, there\u2019ve been some titles that have partially betrayed that [trust]in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n

Sega in the \u201890s was known for its \u2018brand, but after that, we\u2019ve lost trust, and we were left with nothing but \u2018reputation. For this reason, we\u2019d like to win back the customers\u2019 trust, and become a \u2018brand,\u2019 once again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Could this finally be the breakthrough for Sega? They do have successful franchises, but whether they will bring any of this back is questionable at this point in time.<\/p>\n

Now that former Sega <\/em>game series,\u00a0like Shenmue,<\/em> are making a return with\u00a0Shenmue<\/a><\/em> 3<\/a>, Sega desperately needs to make user of their properties to win gamers back.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yet, when\u00a0Satomi was\u00a0asked about the possibility of seeing a new console game in the coming year, he said he couldn’t make a definite promise, explaining,\u00a0\u201cI believe we will announce something for home console at Tokyo Game Show.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

We wonder what the announcement for TGS will be? For now, it’s great to see Sega realising that they’ve made some grave mistakes. Sega just needs to realise that they are not only about\u00a0Sonic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Source: Twinfinite<\/a><\/h4>\n

More on Sega<\/h3>\n

Sega franchises that need to make a return<\/a><\/p>\n

Sonic Boom unveiled: Sega refreshes its hedgehog<\/a><\/p>\n

Sega made \u201cshovelware\u201d: PS4 architect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sonic shouldn’t be all there is to Sega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":78280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6755,1969,1109,14248,14668,3735,1590],"class_list":["post-78278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-hajime-satomi","tag-news-2","tag-sega","tag-sega-games","tag-sega-mega-drive","tag-shenmue","tag-sonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78282,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78278\/revisions\/78282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}