The future of Sega, Sega, the next heavyweight? |
The future of Sega, Sega, the next heavyweight? |
Jul 1 2004, 02:03 PM
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Soul Hunter Group: Magister Posts: 2207 Joined: 10-April 03 From: NJ Member No.: 23 |
I'm sure that those of us here who keep up with videogame news are well aware of the fact that Sega will soon be merging with the Lesser know Sammy company. For those of you unaware, Sammy was behind the super cool fighting game "Guilty Gears." The are also a very popular in japan. Well anyway, I was searching the internet for information for sega and found 2 interesting articles over at gamespot. One discussed the future of sega and and sammys production and how they would cooperate and who would be the main shareeholder of the two. Fortunatly, the article did say that the two titles will continue to make games using their respective titles. Meaning games we have come to know and luve such as Panzer Dragoon, Virtual Fighter, PSO will still be good ol' Sega. Same goes for Sammy and their line of products. But they will make games a combined effort, so maybe we will get more quality service and games then we have been accustmed to from sega. The next article truely intriuged me. It discussed fiber optics and internet play with arcade machines. I think it would be better and faster for you guys to read it. So, Ill just post the link. The future of Sega The future of games Here is the arcade article:
Ripped from Gamespot
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Jul 1 2004, 08:28 PM
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Badass Billionaire Extraordanaire Group: Paragon Caste Posts: 968 Joined: 13-December 02 From: NYC Member No.: 4 |
Arcades = people = communal gaming.
It's good to see they are taking the aspect of communal gaming on a broader level. Sammy is know for those damn ball machine thingies that are so popular in Japan(Pachinko?), so they are arcade focused and probably had ideas about how to evolve the current mundane atmosphere of arcades(they were super hot for awhile, thanks to companies like Sega/Namco/Capcom/Konami, but slowed down as home consoles become more powerful, arcade games became more expensive due to a number of reasons, and online gaming became increasingly popular on consoles). |
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