Sega to pull back release numbers, investing more in its core studios

Sega is reeling things back after a fiscal year full of game releases. It will also be investing more into Sonic, Atlus, and its core studios.

During a fiscal year report (via VGC), Sega reveals that it expects its full game releases will be fewer than this fiscal year, which ends on March 31. There are already three games — Sonic Racing CrossWorlds, Project Century, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance — that are confirmed. There are also five legacy games making a return — Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Virtua Fighter, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage.

Beyond that, it propped Atlus up as an important studio for it as it proved with the award-winning Metaphor: ReFantazio can lead to Japanese IPs growing outside of Japan. Sonic X Shadow Generations was also a decent success, as well.

“Atlus is an important studio for us to expand Japanese IPs overseas and we think it is necessary to strengthen it, and the studios involved in the Sonic and Like a Dragon IPs are also short of staff, and we are looking to reinforce personnel through additional hiring and M&A.”

Based on the report, it’s banking off of repeat sales of new games and likely slightly older games that get attention during sales and general discussion.

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