Having campaigned for months for a localised version of Yakuza 3, many fans of the series feared that releasing the game so close to other big PS3 titles - like Final Fantasy XIII - would hurt its sales. Nope!
While Sega won't disclose official sales figures, which is always a shame, the company has provided something even more important for Yakuza fans: word that sales of the game were enough to show Sega that translating the game from its native Japanese was worth it.
Sega claims Super Mario Bros. Wonder's launch overshadowed Sonic Superstars, affecting sales. Sega remains hopeful for a turnaround.
SEGA in victim mode for many years.. blaming others for doing good never questioning themselves.. no need to be marketing effort to know that releasing a bit of the same sonic at the same time as a very creative and perfectly executed 2D mario would hurt the sales.. well SEGA have one of the most amateur marketing people in the industry
Even when Sega were still in the console business Sonic couldn't compete in terms of sales with Mario. Sonic is hot ragain and Sega still managed to fuck up. Quite the accomplishment.
A lot of bad Sonic games over the years. After Sonic Adventure 2, although Sonic Adventure was better, Sonic died. Apart from the Sonic Racing, that's pretty much it. Sonic Frontiers, SEGA should've knocked out Sonic Adventure 3. These SEGA collections have been knocking around for too long. There's been too much dumbness at SEGA.
Sonic is great but he is nothing when compared to Mario. Nintendo just knows how to utilize Mario better like Mario Maker, Super Smash, Mario Kart, Mario RPG, Mario Paint. Sonic is not a utilizable enough like Mario. Mario can be adapted to different games. Sonic is pretty much run, run, run. Sure Sonic has his own other games but again he is nothing when compared to Mario.
If you were one of those lucky kids who had access to the Sega Channel in the mid-1990s, you legitimately have bragging rights as one of the coolest kids ever.
I doubt anyone forgot it. Your either old enough to remember or your not. I've brought it up a handful of times. When I was young and had no money cause I was a kid it was great. As an adult with a job I'd prefer to just buy
it was more akin to Game Pass because you get new releases on the Sega Channel. I liked it as it let me try before I buy (again like Game Pass).
No one forgot. It is usually brought up in Game Pass discussions when bad journalists and Xbox sheep say "Sega was ahead of its time but Microsoft has evolved it to be the best service humanity has even known" Add in a Netflix and Blockbuster reference, copy and store in a word file for your next deadline.
Sega published its financial results for the 9 months that ended on December 31, 2023, and at least part of them wasn't really great.
Lets pretend that Sega didn't have it's largest number of games release on game pass ever during this quarter by not even mentioning it in your article about how their games underperformed in sales.
Hmm CTRL F ah zero mentions of game pass at all.
I would have blamed their pricing scheme ($115/$120 for a new game? Charging out the butt for the Etrain HD Remasters? Charging extra for New Game Plus?), but some of those games did well anyway. None of the titles mentioned in Q3 exactly set my world on fire, I didn't purchase any of them, maybe no one else did either?
you see. when some game don't sell well publishers never reveal it's numbers. that's why we don't know numbers for any pc game
"While Sega won't disclose official sales figures"
only 100 k in americas.. http://www.vgchartz.com/gam...
these are VERY disappointing sales numbers Considering this game is one of their big hyped exclusives of ps3 fanboys.
vgchartz... ugh
I just want Yakuza 4 NOW!!!! 3 was great!