SEGA Admits to Betraying Fans over Quality Releases

By Jorge Ba-oh 08.07.2015 4

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SEGA CEO and president Hajime Satomi spoke to Famitsu recently (translation via Siliconera) about lessons learned on maintaining quality.

The Japanese game-maker discussed the studio's output and future plans with the magazine this week, particularly when targeting regions outside Japan.

"We learned a lot from Atlus," Satomi said, when talking about the Western market. "If we can make a title with proper quality, I believe there's a good chance for it to do well even in the West for players that like to play." 

Recalling SEGA's relationship with older fans, Satomi admitted that "looking back, there've been some titles that have partially betrayed that [trust] in the past 10 years."

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The studio head expressed a desire to "start putting serious consideration into quality from this point on," especially in games released in the US and Europe, where SEGA have typically had "more of a focus on schedules."

Going forward, if SEGA "can't maintain quality, it would be better to not release anything at all," he said.

Should SEGA take a step back and focus on quality releases, over quantity?

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A least they're admitting that there have been some stinkers. But still, this is common sense - surely. Especially coming from someone high up in the company. It confuses and worries me greatly.

I can understand there are naturally targets to meet, money to make, but long-term success can't surely be made from shitty, glitch-ridden games?

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So it's taken how long? Aliens was a big set back and I don't think anyone is going to forget the Boom games anytime soon.

This truely puts Nintendo's delays in to perspective. Sure they might not be winning any console wars right now but they are putting some top quality software out there at the moment that should make the perfectionist in them very proud.

SEGA's mismanagement of Sonic started earlier than 2006, this sort of behaviour is not fitting for what should be their lead character and mascot! Sort it out SEGA!

Well, I counted out Sonic over a decade ago. I do not know what I would rather do, play through the later Sonic games or do a long play of Desert Bus... I am glad Sega finally admits to their flaws. But I am sad it's too late for that now.

( Edited 08.07.2015 17:15 by Andre Eriksson )

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