VIDEO Sega Super Game budget is expected to be over $800M

Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Sega Super Game budget is expected to be over $800M…

One of the oddest announcements in gaming over the last few years is Sega’s tease of an unknown “Super Game” project in collaboration with Microsoft. We haven’t heard much on the game for a while, but it sounds like Sega is still hard at work on the project. In a recent report, Sega President and COO Yukio Sugino shared an update, not only sharing that the Super Game is still coming along, but also that Sega expects to launch it by March 2026.

President Sugino shared these details in a recent business presentation posted on Sega’s investor relations website this week. It was in the Entertainment Contents Business that Sugino addressed progress and expectations of the Super Game:

We are conducting R&D activities to create a “Super Game,” a major title that scales globally, by the fiscal year ending March 2026. Under the current medium-term plan, we are actively investing in reinforcing our earnings base through the global branding of existing IPs.

For all the quality products SEGA has right now, there’s nothing that really stands close to these games. It has Phantasy Star Online – but that games isn’t exactly rocking the MMO world right now. It’s all a big mystery, and one worth keeping an eye on. SEGA – in spite of its quality these days – can feel like a bit of a known quantity. This new super game, whatever it is, may just change that. That is unless it’s a NFT game. God, can you imagine.

So if successful releases like Sonic Frontiers and Yakuza: Like a Dragon don’t count as super games, what might fit the bill? If this project requires R&D work, it’s safe to assume that it’s outside of what the studio is currently producing genre-wise. The description provided above certainly implies a multiplayer experience, referencing streamers directly.

Taking a look at the most viewed Japanese language Twitch games, you see a lot of these sorts of experiences. Ark: Survival Evolved, GTAV, Valorant and League of Legends take the top four spots. The presentation does emphasize worldwide and western appeal – though the top-ranking games in English aren’t much different.