"It's one of the wonders of working for an organization as diverse and open as Sega. Sometimes it's joined up and sometimes it's less joined up. At times, it can be opportunistic as well as strategic. "There is a thought process that goes behind it. "It's looking for viable routes to service the community and really trying to figure out the best way to bring the right content at the right time on the right platform," Clark said. We asked Sega Europe SVP of commercial publishing John Clark about the throughline in the company's retro strategies when we spoke to him at E3.
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Or one could conclude that Sega doesn't really have a coherent strategy about how to leverage its legacy content in the current market. One could look at this approach to catalog monetization and conclude there's never been a better time to be a person who really, really wants new ways to buy the original Sonic the Hedgehog. There was even a long-running partnering with AtGames that saw the pair churn out Genesis micro consoles years before the NES Classic hit the scene (although the quality was often lacking). There were the Sega Forever free-to-play versions of the usual suspects on Google Play and the App Store. There were the a la carte re-releases of 16-bit games on Steam. There were the 3DS versions of the Sega Ages collection, which were revamped to take advantage of the system's glasses-free 3D screen. Of course, those aren't the only ways Sega has chosen to monetize its catalog of retro offerings. Now available pretty much everywhere, and in every way The company started launching its Sega Ages collection of games on the Switch, announced its Sega Genesis/MegaDrive collection would be arriving on the Switch this winter, and pushed the release of the Mega Drive Mini micro console back to 2019.
There was a lot of big news on the Sega retro front last month. While the exact format of these columns is still taking shape, we will publish them under the banner of "DLC." Sonic the HodgePodge Rather than relegate them to the trash bin of unpublished work, we'd like to repackage them into columns intended to provide additional insight on a variety of topics. From time to time, there are interesting bits from coverage that don't really fit well into the rest of the story, but are still worth reporting.
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