In a Q&A throughout its current earnings report, Sega has revealed that it is going to be releasing fewer new titles in 2025. It does, nonetheless, anticipate its income to be steady because of repeat gross sales of its video games, in addition to income from its free-to-play video games within the fiscal yr.
“The plan is presently being formulated, however we anticipate the amount of recent titles in Full Sport to be decrease than this fiscal yr,” mentioned Sega. “Then again, we anticipate steady income contribution from repeat gross sales of recent titles in Full Sport this fiscal yr and full-scale income contribution from new titles in F2P.”
For the sake of context, when Sega says “Full Sport”, it’s referring to its main releases that aren’t free-to-play. This would come with its releases like Metaphor: ReFantazio or the upcoming Shinobi: Artwork of Vengeance.
Sega additionally spoke about its plans for funding into its subsidiaries like Atlus, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios, and Sonic Workforce. The corporate plans on increasing and strengthening these firms by way of hiring new expertise, in addition to by way of mergers and acquisitions.
“Atlus is a crucial studio for us to increase Japanese IPs abroad and we predict it’s essential to strengthen it, and the studios concerned within the Sonic and Like a Dragon IPs are additionally in need of workers, and we need to reinforce personnel by way of further hiring and M&A,” mentioned Sega.
The corporate additionally revealed that it had offered nearly 20 million copies of its newer releases as much as December 31, 2024. Within the first three quarters of the fiscal yr, Sega reported that 2 million copies of Sonic X Shadow Generations had been offered, whereas Metaphor: ReFantazio offered round one million copies.
Its older titles have additionally been extremely standard, with Persona 5 and Unicorn Overlord being among the many video games that had been a part of the 12 million offered copies of legacy releases.
With its library of IPs rising, Sega president and COO Shuji Utsumi had revealed in an interview that the corporate would possibly get its personal subscription service. He described the thought of a subscription service “very attention-grabbing”. Sega is seemingly “evaluating some alternatives” surrounding the thought.
The newest Sega launch has been Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios’ Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. The sport, out there on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Collection X/S, places gamers within the footwear of an amnesiac Goro Majima who finally ends up getting concerned with gangs of pirates round Hawaii.
Launched again in February, Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii was launched alongside a brand new recreation plus mode added by way of its day one patch. Its launch was a profitable one in Japan, promoting greater than 105,000 bodily copies within the nation. Out of those, 68,000 copies had been for the PS5 model, whereas 36,000 copies had been for the PS4 model.
Sega has additionally been engaged on bringing again a few of its older franchises. Alongside the recently-revealed Shinobi: Artwork of Vengeance, the corporate has additionally confirmed that it’s engaged on new Loopy Taxi and Jet Set Radio video games as effectively.
