I'd be MUCH more angry if Sega was signing a deal for more Marvel games or with a company that is known for crappy games... or unknown like Secret Level.
? Disney will probably take over video game rights from Sega at one point. Not that the Marvel deal itself is actually bad.
I have to laugh at people elsewhere on the internet moaning about this news. I can't believe people would still think that SEGA holds a grudge against EA for passing on the Dreamcast, and in turn SEGA should snub EA's offer to publish their games.
It's beyond fanboyism, it's pure stupidity.
Don't you mean EA? EA has gone out of their way to put the boot in at Sega whenever possible, just because of this new deal is happening doesn't mean anything has changed on that front.Not that it'll improve anything considering what happened with the last big publishing deal Sega had with a western company.
Problem is, Japan's incredibly different (culturally) from the West, and a lot of Western publishers (Microsoft) struggle to market their games effectively to a Japanese demographic.
Sega will hopefully help EA out with this, EA has been releasing plenty of quality software in recent months...and more importantly, new IP.
It really has nothing to do with culture as much to do with size. Sega has one of the biggest distrubution channels in japan along with a few others so EA would have either gone with capcom,Square or Konami as an alternative but the SP deal has always been reneowed as one of the best for small companies to get their games out there.