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Sega Promises to "Aim for Greater Heights" With Emotional Mission Video on Its 60th Anniversary

Today Sega is celebrating its 60th anniversary and to celebrate, the publisher released a new video portraying its mission.

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sushimama1461d ago (Edited 1460d ago )

Hmm this doesn't seem to be the kind of video you'd be putting out if your company was going to get 'bought out'.

Maybe the June 4th Famitsu reveal will be a new console from them, or maybe not. Who knows. I refuse to believe the 'big scoop' was a micro GameGear handheld.

Abriael1460d ago (Edited 1460d ago )

Of course they're not going to get bought out. I'm surprised anyone ever believed that bullcrap. Any site that repeated that should be derided from here to 2080 when Sega will have it's 120th anniversary.
I may be wrong, but I expect the "big scoop" to be more of an overview of Sega's plans for the 60th anniversary with an exclusive interview with the CEO.

From a journalist's point of view, it matches the style of Wired's PS5 article and it is a pretty large journalistic scoop, and if I had that kind of opportunity, I'd be pretty damn excited. I've been trying to interview Satomi-san for years. I don't expect big further announcements, but may be wrong. Famitsu's out in a few hours anyway, if it doesn't leak earlier.

sushimama1460d ago

An overview for their upcoming plans sounds awesome. Maybe their future gaming plans. I mean as a company like SEGA and the amount of gaming IP they own, how could you not look at the projects CAPCOM have completed like RE2:Remake and think, "We can do this kind of thing. Make our IP relevant again. Nostalgia can be capitalized on".

I hope you're correct. It'd be cool if they did a console though lol

Abriael1460d ago

Turned out the "big scoop" it's their own form of cloud streaming based on arcade hardware to keep them working during off hours. Big deal lol.

I'll reserve judgement until I read the actual article (for now there's only a leak), but yeah... this was crazy overhyped for almost nothing.

sushimama1460d ago (Edited 1460d ago )

For the Famitsu writer, this is bordering on 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' type of shit if that leak is true. Shake up the gaming industry? wtf

Melankolis1460d ago

Waiting for your article...

rainslacker1459d ago (Edited 1459d ago )

GO SEGA.

Wonder if Sega is making a SEGA Go. Some kind of portable. I mean, I know they have that GG Mini, but that could just be to get people excited about Sega portables, as it was a pretty cool portable back in the day.

This would make sense for them since Nintendo is currently the only one in the market for a real portable nowadays. Plus, since they own Atlus, as well as numerous other popular devs for games that have done quite well on mobile and portable platforms, it could be an interesting prospect for them to throw their hat back in the ring. Sega has quite a few popular games on Switch they could leverage to be successful.

I now people kept talking about a rumor....as half assed as it was....that MS would buy them, if there is anything about Sega wanting to get back into the hardware market, that could be the route they go, and they do apparently have some big news coming up. I think it might be too crowded for them to go against Sony and MS right now in the home console market.

Hayter4561460d ago

Waiting for something that riles up the gaming industry...or the insider is just a overhyping clown?

Ratchet751460d ago

Does Aaron Greenberg has a brother working at Famitsu? 😂 😂

Zeref1460d ago

"Diverse Global Team"

I spotted exactly 5 black people... Had to look for them like where's waldo.

SegaGamer1460d ago

When people say diverse, it doesn't always mean they are talking about skin colour or what you have between your legs.

Abriael1460d ago (Edited 1460d ago )

It's a company that spans both japan and the west. Sounds pretty diverse to me. 🤔

ecchiless1459d ago

No no no, it have to include black ppl, is the law.

anonymousfan1460d ago

" Go big or go home " ...Sega releases the Micro....

Shuckylad1460d ago

Dreamcast 2. All original DC compatible and some patched to run higher resolution and frame rates. All sega arcade and console history available in perfect conversions via online store.
Online multiplayer.....
I dream.....cast

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Take-Two CEO Doesn’t Think AI Will Reduce Employment or Dev Costs; “Stupidest Thing” He’s Heard

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.

lodossrage14h ago(Edited 14h ago)

They already have AI trained to do coding.......

How he thinks it's stupid is beyond me, Especially since we see it happening in real time.

CS711h ago

Company A has 300 employees and lays of 200 to replace them with AI to release the same quality game.

Company B has 300 employees and keeps all 300 but instead uses AI to release a game with dramatically larger scale, scope, complexity, short dev cycle etc.

Company B would release a dramatically better product by using humans + AI and consumers would buy the better game.

I actually agree with this concept.

Huey_My_D_Long11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

This is key facet. Its how the AI is used. It's actually is impressive as is and really would make an amazing addition to alot of people in their jobs, not just tech. It also has the potential for businesses to use to lay off large amounts of people, as much as they could to save money on labor. I hope too many companies don't go with the latter. But since usually companies are worried about bottom line over people...we will see some try and hopefully fail. But yeah, if its to help workers like in your company B scenario I'm totally down...Just scared Company A may be too enticing to some ceos and businesses.

Darkegg11h ago

Value of AI and value of humans will both be increased with human-AI complex. Each, by themselves, will not be independently better than the other. Whether AI will ever be independent from humans is the fear question of humans, ironically because of our doing. At this stage, most of the doing is because of humans, not because of AI. AI is doing exactly that by our design, until we have failed ourselves with an AI development that went awry. The biggest take is that humans have only ourselves to blame when things become wrong, and we have to decide what is the ultimate goal with AI we want to accomplish. It would take a person with high morals and high ethics to make right of AI. I would not want businessman to decide what AI should do or what capabilities it can have. AI should be in the hands of people with high moral fiber, or those operating on love, kindness, and compassion.

BlackOni10h ago

AI is SUPPOSED to be used as a tool, not a replacement. It's designed to do two important things artists can take advantage of immediately.

- Make the ideation/reference imaging process much quicker and easier (basically using it as a google search)
- Make mundane and time consuming tasks faster and easier so more time is spent on creation.

Unfortunately, what many have done is used it as a way to replace rather than supplement.

Einhander19727h ago(Edited 7h ago)

CS7

In the ideal world yes.

In the real world where companies have shown little desire to innovate and spent every effort to maximize profits the end result will be the same quality games (if were lucky) made by less people and more AI.

Company Real World: Fires 200 people and makes the same game cheaper using AI and the executives get record bonuses.

Edit:

Lets look at history, specifically auto manufacturing.

In the 70's and 80's the auto unions tried to oppose automation of jobs (robots) stating that they would take peoples jobs. And the people in charge who wanted to make more money said the exact same types of things that are being said about AI. But we can look at history and see that countless types of jobs were in fact replaced by automation, that was of course even compounded upon by computers.

The net effect was that the rich got richer less jobs were needed so wages were forced down by competition for the jobs that were left.

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Number1TailzFan11h ago

You can already make your own SFX with text prompts now as well, of course it will lower development cost and time

1Victor11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

WARNING WARNING ‼️ SARCASM AHEAD
Sure Strauss and robots didn’t take jobs from car factories.
Edit:Sad thing is he believes it and unfortunately he won’t be replaced for a long time by AI

senorfartcushion9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

He doesn't, he's just lying. These people lay people off so they can get bonuses. If AI takes jobs, their bonus goes bigger and the workforce goes smaller.

porkChop7h ago

Because he sees AI as a tool to aid development. He wants to use AI to help make bigger and better games in the same timeframe. Other CEOs want to replace devs with AI to cut costs and make lifeless games faster for a quick buck. Strauss has the right idea, this is how AI should be used. To extend and expand the capabilities of devs.

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jambola13h ago

Ceo says stupid thing
Part 5837384

Zeref12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.

romulus2312h ago

As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.

RNTody11h ago

Hahaha yeah trust the CEO suit over the actual developers making the games. Good one.

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HexGaming Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Hex Phantom

Custom Controller Company HexGaming launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest pro controller, Hex Phantom. - IS

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Every PlayStation Studios game available now on Windows PC

Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.

According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."

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ocelot071d 20h ago

My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.

Elda1d 14h ago

Every old Playstation game that is now on PC.

shinoff21831d 4h ago

Right. I definitely see what a headlined from a website named windows central was trying to do though. It's cute little wordplay to help out the green box

Flewid6381d 3h ago

Are PlayStation games no longer good or worth playing once they are old?

Elda1d 3h ago

I'm guessing my comment went over your head.

XiNatsuDragnel1d 13h ago

Good at least they can sell hardware