No SEGA Booth at E3 2015

[Nz17]

Over the next months, SEGA of America will be focusing on the restructure and relocation to Southern California, and we have decided to not attend E3 with our own booth this year,” a representative told us via email. “With the majority of our bigger titles launching later in 2015/2016, particularly those from our AAA studios Relic Entertainment, Sports Interactive and Creative Assembly, we are concentrating our efforts for some of these major announcements after our relocation. Instead, we will be collaborating with our various business partners for this year’s E3 show.

Source: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...t-e3-2015.aspx

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we finally might be seeing the last years of SEGA. I know, I know, Sammy acquired/merged with SEGA a few years ago, and it is currently undergoing a restructuring. But to use an analogy, I think this is a sign that the last air is exiting the balloon. I think SEGA could just end up being another label on a box like Atari and Sierra Online did.

It's widely speculated that SEGA is going to publish a major Sonic game next year for his series' 25th anniversary, but who knows: that could be the last SEGA-developed Sonic game ever made. Another publisher might acquire the company for the Intellectual Property rights and continue publishing Sonic and other SEGA games, but the development would probably be done by outside devs to which the new IP owner would contract the work.

[PreZZ]

Thats weird... they just acquired atlus, which is bigger than sega nowadays!

[Rickstilwell1]

Hmm, maybe somebody else could do Sonic better and do Sonic right.

[otaku]

as a sega fan this makes me sad they had a good shot and some success post hardware and with the sammy/atlus stuff those were good things I thought but yeah the future does not look bright and poor sonic could use better treatment than a simple cash cow status he has now. Time will tell.

[The 1 2 P]

I'm not that surprised about the E3 announcement. As for Sonic, I think Sammy/Sega really need to license the franchise out to Nintendo for a few years. That's one of the only ways I can see that series ever being successfully revived.

[Flojomojo]

So no one is going to speculate that

Sega is dying
Consoles are dying
Games are dying
Conferences are dying
?

I'm simultaneously impressed and disappointed.