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HellRaiser

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Interesting Scott Steinberg Comment - Apr 21, 2007 11:49
Found this at Shenmue Dojo. (JoeMDesign)
http://shenmue.planets.gamespy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33682
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GI: Sega is doing a lot of licensed titles, which is a big difference for Sega. Why continue tapping the Marvel catalog when you have so much internally that you could make. Why not go back to Shenmue? Another Samba de Amigo? Shinobi? Ecco? Golden Axe? I could go on for an hour. (laughs)

Steinberg: You know, I think that’s a great question. The reality is this announcement, and the volume within the announcement may feel like it tips the scale in a lopsided way toward licensed properties. We’ve been tapping into some of the vault characters and bringing them out to show the fanboys that we’re going to try and bring new life into these characters so that is still a very important part of our effort. With The Golden Compass and this Marvel announcement it may feel like the scale is a bit heavier towards licenses. That’s kind of because we started at zero. It’s now just getting to where it’s about the lower part of what the other top publishers are doing. We’re still nowhere at where the EAs, the Activisions, the THQs have as a percentage. We have not neglected by any means – we haven’t announced them all – what we’re dusting off and bringing new life to our existing characters.

GI: Is that something we’ll see fleshed out more at your Gamers’ Day and E3?

Steinberg: Some of them. You know, the NiGHTS announcement, and we’re bringing NiGHTS back on the Wii. Hopefully you’ll see some of that, if not at the pre-E3 event, certainly at E3. There are a host of other games that are in development we haven’t announced that you should be quite excited about if you’re memory serves you on some of the epic properties of our past.
< Message edited by Hellraiser -- 21 Apr 07 3:51:35 >
Zoy

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RE: Interesting Scott Steinberg Comment - Apr 21, 2007 13:48
If selling loads of licensed games gives Sega the financial leverage to fund some of their more artistic efforts, then I' m all for it. It' s not unlike a filmmaker like Richard Linklater doing some commercial movies, like " School of Rock" and " Dazed and Confused" in order to get the money to do more obscure artistic efforts like " Waking Life" and " A Scanner Darkly."

Somebody should tell Steinberg that " fanboy" is not a complimentary term, though.
< Message edited by Zoy -- 21 Apr 07 5:50:16 >

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