Based on revised recruitment pages, posted on ResetEra by SEGAbits community members Dooble and Suzuki Yu, it appears that the upcoming Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi games revealed at the Game Awards will fall under SEGA’s Super Game initiative. SEGA’s division 3 is the online division, which through interviews has been said to focus on the Super Game releases. Jet Set Radio’s staff was moved from division 4, the mobile division, to division 3. Division 3 has been confirmed through interviews to be focused on GaaS (Games as a Service) and currently handles Phantasy Star Online 2. This would mean that both titles are likely to be online and potentially online only, much like PSO2. They would also be high budget triple-A releases.
This would align with SEGA’s decision to send announcement postcards to Twitch streamers, who are more likely to give GaaS titles attention, rather than fan sites like SEGAbits who are more aligned with traditional games and account for a majority of the Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio fanbase.
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So, after the SURGE of happiness after the release of the trailer, it doesn’t look good in the end. It is a fact, that previous announcement of new JSR and Crazy Taxi in development always mentioned Super Game as well.
No change then, RGG series remains the only treat for fans of shiny single player SEGA games.
If the new Crazy Taxi and JSR are Super games and GaaS; well, so be it. We all want that offline single player, buy a physical disc game; but to have new games in these series is a great fun thing!
We all are wary of when the online/server/GaaS gets turned OFF 5 or 10 years later.
Still, fingers crossed for the other titles for offline physical disc releases; new Streets of Rage, GoldenAxe, Outrun, and AfterBurner!!
Anyone remember the Sega Forever mobile ios/android game lineup? unfortunately that went OFFLINE 5-10 years later. bummer!
If a AAA GAAS doesn’t make enough money it is cancelled way before the 5-10 year mark. Naughty Dog is canceling their last of us live service game they’d been working on for a decade before even releasing it to focus on single player games. This is a super scary take but at least we have bomb rush cyberfunk and hifi rush now so if live service jsr dies we’ve already got decent jet set radio replacements.