Sega, a well-known Japanese game developer, suggested the possibility of using NFT and metaverse elements as part of its latest game proposal. Dubbed “Super Game,” this new framework includes a series of AAA games that will use the new and existing IP (intellectual property) of the company to innovate using Sega’s technology. Masayoshi, an employee of the company’s production department, said in an interview that it will be used to investigate how games can connect together. This hint at an IP metaverse.
Sega Explains ‘Super Game’ Initiative
Sega, one of the most influential Japanese game development companies, has provided more details about its “Super Game” initiative and how new technologies like NFTs and the metaverse might be included in it. The company detailed that the “Super Game” framework includes a series of requirements that games under this new philosophy must meet.
According to an interview given by Sega’s executive VP Shuji Utsumi, the requirements these games must meet are to have a multi-platform release, a global multi-language development, a simultaneous worldwide release, and to be developed as AAA titles with big budgets associated. All of this points to these games being developed as “global blockbusters.”
Sega previously stated that it may invest 100 billion yen (882 million dollars) to bring this project to fruition.
NFT and Metaverse Vibes
Sega executives didn’t limit their explanations to this initiative in the immediate future. The interview also covered the future plans for Sega and gaming overall. Sega producer Masayoshi Kikuchi declared:
This is an extension of the game that will be used in future gaming. It will also include new gaming areas like cloud gaming or NFT. SuperGame is also being developed from the viewpoint of connecting different games.
Sega already registered the “Sega NFT” trademark in Japan in December, although it has also said that they could drop NFT experiments within the company if gamers saw them as a money-making scheme.
The “connected” trait of different IPs might also mean that Sega could be planning to develop a metaverse for its IPs. This isn’t a novel idea. Another Japanese developer has already taken this step. Bandai Namco currently develops a metaverse with multiple IP, Gundam being the initial IP to be developed under this plan.
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