Sega Sammy Cancels Super Game Project

Sega Sammy Holdings announced the cancellation of its ambitious "Super Game" project during its latest financial results presentation, marking a strategic shift away from live service and free-to-play titles.

The decision, detailed in a presentation slide reviewing the company's live service efforts, follows underperformance by recent free-to-play games, including Sonic Rumble Party. Sega stated it has lowered the priority of such titles in its portfolio and reassigned more than 100 developers from those projects to full game development teams focused on core intellectual properties. The company emphasized that the cancellation incurred no additional costs.

Revealed in May 2021, Super Game was envisioned as a major initiative to produce titles that "go beyond the traditional framework of games," spanning multiple high-budget projects leveraging Sega's technologies for global scale. Sega's co-chief operating officer, Shuji Utsumi, described it in late 2023 as "a game that stands head and shoulders above normal games," one that would build "a whole worldview involving the entire gaming ecosystem, including not only players but also streamers who stream the game and their viewers."...