hopefully reshuffling the management ends up being good for them. i'd hate for sega to be in trouble.
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Toshihiro Nagoshi stepping down as Sega CCO; now a Creative Director [up: part of management restructure]
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hopefully reshuffling the management ends up being good for them. i'd hate for sega to be in trouble.
From a pure business perspective, yeah, ignoring the monster of the consoles is probably not the best decision.
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Staff change job roles all the time for any number of reasons, in this case it's also part of a management reorganisation at Sega. Speculation on the reason why rooted only in his previous comments on the Switch and a lack of Yakuza games on the platform is baseless and has led to a derail. Please get back on topic. Hostility and platform wars will be harshly actioned going forward.
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Yakuza has certainly grown in the West. However, sales in Japan have been in decline and considering how badly the PS5 is doing there, things are only going to get worse.
Hmm so it is not his health. That's good.
Hopefully the new managment is able to pull themselves together and start having success.
Hopefully the new managment is able to pull themselves together and start having success.
Are you for real? Yes, people absolutely tell others to buy whatever systems has an exclusive game they want to play. God of War, Uncharted, Last of Us? Buy a PS4. Forza, Gears, Bethesda? Buy an Xbox.
For someone whining about Switch discourse ruining the thread you sure want to talk about the Switch.
To be frank the man was in charge and a big part of lots of shitty decisions from the Japanese branch of Sega and some of those decisions include platform choice. People criticizing that in a thread where a dude is basically being removed from a major position is totally valid. Not sure what you are complaining about.
SEGA hasn't been very successful on the console gaming market since some times now. Only Yakuza is performing well and that IP is on the decline, while other big projects such as the crossmedia Sakura Wars venture, Valkyria Chronicles or everything Sonic related bombed. A strategy change needs to happen. Particularly now that they can't rely on amusement parks or other closed ventures due to COVID.
And yes, it includes better platform decisions, especially when it comes to a company whose biggest market by a wide margin is Japan.
And yes, it includes better platform decisions, especially when it comes to a company whose biggest market by a wide margin is Japan.
Could be a good thing. Sega has been making a lot of bad decisions lately. Perhaps a change in leadership in some areas is what they need.
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To argue that they could have done better at management by supporting the Switch is not port begging, is it?
More like Sony fans are a little nervous lately.
More like Sony fans are a little nervous lately.
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Everything in this forum really coming down to console warring huh.
As far as the japanese side goes, I'd assume Phantasy Star Online 2 has been a moneymaker, given that Sega is still actively supporting it years after release. So they have that going aside from Yakuza and Judgment at least.
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It can't be helped, you can only get trashy, bad faith fanboy kindergarden arguments from these kind of discussions.
It was the last Monkey Ball game they developed so they probably had all the source code and such. Sega is notorious for losing this stuff.
This might be one of the most complex sentences i've read in a long time.
Hopefully the new CCO is able to make better business decisions than Nagoshi, especially concerning the platform choice.
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After who decided to invest in SNK, "anyone" could be a very bad thing.
Probably feels burned after the Yakuza Nintendo ports sold like ass
*I am aware they would sell more on Switch nowadays
It's crazy. I sometimes feel like more and more threads are being created without much info or meat to them. I mean we had a 30 page thread about MS acquisition based on a single Brad Sams tweet, and the tweet was just an emoji and the entirety of the thread was just baseless speculation and warring; the same as every other acquisition thread. There's just not enough info to have any sort of meaningful discussions. Hell I don't even know what the differences and scope between Nagoshi's roles are now to even comment on it.
Eh, I guess these kind of comments aren't anything new.
Oops sorry I was aware it was over complicated but didn't really know how to rephrase :P. I hope it's understandable though.
People mentioning the PS5 delay of RGG7, I wonder if that was a Sega Japan decision? From watching the streams around it they have been very adamant this is a repackaging of the western release, which implies it may not have been done in house at RGG.
Also, Nagoshi hasn't been involving in directing many of the last games, so hopefully this changes and he gets to work on something himself.
If anything this reshuffling to me probably implies a more conservative approach at Sega, Covid hit their other sectors a lot.
Also, Nagoshi hasn't been involving in directing many of the last games, so hopefully this changes and he gets to work on something himself.
If anything this reshuffling to me probably implies a more conservative approach at Sega, Covid hit their other sectors a lot.
Sega Ages needs to go back to being collections again so they can actually move onto more newer and niche titles. Because niche individual titles don't sell, and if Sega Ages isn't selling, they stop making more. At the rate they're going, they are never making it to the later arcade boards or Sega systems.
But there is another problem as well. Sega competes with themselves over their retro catalogue by making a collection with Sega of Europe and/or other companies, and also having tons of overlap with the titles M2 re-releases under Sega Ages.
Yep, that's yet another case of arbitrarily limiting exposure of their catalogue on single platforms. If they have no idea where their users are (which seems evident), they should be releasing on everything. Like, the audience for what is an amazing port of Virtua Racing is not confined to Switch users, fans of Sega racing games are scattered everywhere nowadays.
They make unjustifiable decisions all the time and 99% of them come out of the JP division. They have probably the 2nd best retro catalogue of any publisher yet their approach is completely scattershot.
I would bet they are probably more pissed over Sakura Wars than anything else (and remember it had a failed mobile game too). Everything else can be chalked up as disappointments; Sakura Wars flat out cost them *a lot* of money
Switch and PC ports also wouldn't have saved Sakura Wars from being the failure that it was (besides the game just not being that good, they went for an aesthetic that was.... just not Sakura Wars-esque, on top of the series being dormant for at least a decade).
Switch and PC ports also wouldn't have saved Sakura Wars from being the failure that it was (besides the game just not being that good, they went for an aesthetic that was.... just not Sakura Wars-esque, on top of the series being dormant for at least a decade).
I think it's both.
Too much pressure for him.
I believe that was a year ago so I thought he was healing. I hope he has a good health and a long life regardless of this decision. If this makes him face less pressure and thus have better health then it is the only way forward.
I don't think they acknowledge anything after the early Saturn as far as retro games go. 🤦🏽♂️
Funnily, Sega Ages was heavily requested by Kamiya and Sakurai.
Sometimes I wonder if they even remember the Master System or Game Gear.
If they are integrating upper management, it doesn't sound like any part is being sold off like that other thread is suggesting.
Yeah, they're definitely not. They're looking to strengthen and adapt to the current environment and build a more efficient structure. It's all in their own words.
Toshihiro Nagoshi to step down as Sega CCO and become creative director; Sega Sammy announces organizational restructure - Gematsu