SEGA holds the IP rights but deep down everyone knows its completely a treasure title
Its a Sega second party game. Always has been always will be. Made on the Megadrive, for the Megadrive and utilized the MD hardware.
Wonderboy everyone who's any sort of gamer and SEGA fan will know it was a Westone title and they developed the games and even developed them for rival formats under a different name .
You don't say..
. Westone was never widely known at any capacity by the majority of gamers, so try again. And anyone knows the proper WB games was made with Sega which is why Adventure Islands is hardly a footnote in gaming history. Unless of course you were a sad PC Engine owner....
With games like Sakura Wars not only did SEGA fund them hold the IP rights but also had its own staff helping to develop the games (not just produce it ) rising up to over a hundred In-House staff to help develop the DC titles . There is a difference
Funny, if i was actually referring to SW. But on that, its a joint copyright game. Sega can't do SW without Red and neither can Red unless they get Sega's approval. The only ones who has actually made new SW games has been Red. Just like Bayonetta really. Which Sega had fully funded but of course you said didn't count. They also initially funded the second game before it got canned. So again your argument about Sega not being involved as well as it not being a Sega game when you yourself have used Sakura Taisen as an implication that its a Sega game via funding also defaults your initial argument.
No its just shows what IP rights can do . Well all know AM#2 made the title , Yet in the west Acclaim held the Ferrari rights and published the game. It really wouldn't have made any different which major Studio published Bay, it would have played and looked the same - It's your typical Platinum game .
Not really. Ferrari, Sega had worldwide rights arcade wise. They didn't have worldwide rights as opposed to console. Again its just another publisher publishing another game from a different company or in this case porting the title. Why? Because Sega had already published the game on two formats. Acclaim just did it for the western markets. When Sega usually publishes a game, its usually a game that hasn't been released yet but they don't own the rights to it.
And really use a better example than Strider 2 for gods sake...
That was just a cynical cash-in and shares nothing to do with Outrun at all . A classic example of PR men slapping a IP title on it, to try and get more sales
The point is sunsoft licensed the name. End of.
