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, nevertheless, 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 12 months.
“The plan is at present being formulated, however we anticipate the quantity of recent titles in Full Recreation to be decrease than this fiscal 12 months,” mentioned Sega. “Alternatively, we anticipate steady income contribution from repeat gross sales of recent titles in Full Recreation this fiscal 12 months and full-scale income contribution from new titles in F2P.”
For the sake of context, when Sega says “Full Recreation”, 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 corporations via hiring new expertise, in addition to via mergers and acquisitions.
“Atlus is a vital studio for us to develop Japanese IPs abroad and we expect it’s essential to strengthen it, and the studios concerned within the Sonic and Like a Dragon IPs are additionally in need of employees, and we need to reinforce personnel via extra 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 12 months, Sega reported that 2 million copies of Sonic X Shadow Generations have been offered, whereas Metaphor: ReFantazio offered round one million copies.
Its older titles have additionally been extremely widespread, with Persona 5 and Unicorn Overlord being among the many video games that have 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 concept of a subscription service “very attention-grabbing”. Sega is seemingly “evaluating some alternatives” surrounding the concept.
The latest 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 sneakers 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 sport plus mode added via 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 have been for the PS5 model, whereas 36,000 copies have 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 nicely.
