What if Sega tried a new publishing format?

[celerystalker]

If Sega were to try a new publishing format in order to reach out to independent game developers to launch a new consolewith exclusive content, how do you think it would go?

To elaborate, what if Sega created a unified platform of arcade, handheld, and home console that didn't try to compete with the current generation. What if they reached out to these once salaried creators like Inafune and Igarashi and offered to publish their games in a format more like Dynamite Comics or Antarctic Press, where creators retain ownership of their properties and get a larger revenue share, with the creative freedom that comes with it? What if Sega just went to its strength in shorter-form games in arcade and console development, and basically threw down the gauntlet, saying they can make better games in their own style in their own way than the Activisions, EAs, and Ubisofts of the world, doing balls-out marketing like they used to do?

Would you be excited? If Sega said, "No more flashbacks and compilations, just the games the best creators in the world want to make," would you be reaching for your wallet?

[sfchakan]

I don't think they have the cash or the recent history to get the funding to pull it off.

[Tanooki]

I hate to use the word because I won't pay into the service, but kickstarter.

With all the so-called die hard Sega fans out there who hate where they've slid, those who miss a console from them in some form or another, and those who adore their 8/16bit through Dreamcast back library when they had actual good talent and ideas I think it could happen. I think I said it in another post here today or last night, if they could do something like how Nvidia has made their handheld and now the shield console too, where they have their own platform but using something universal for the OS like Android (like how DC could use WinCE for games.) I think they'd have a chance. They could log up some serious things to buy on the cheap with their back library, a portion of it already converted to Android as it is, while they could do as you said, get IGA and others on the rolls having their games put on the format where they retain all the control, they just share a little profit back to Sega for hosting the game on their console like licensing fees of old. I'd think I'd even be interested enough to buy a Sega console again if they had their own independent android box instead of that atgames crap handheld/console they never upgrade the bugs out of the emulator on so basic things like saving don't work and certain graphics modes fail(contra won't play) keeping it from being great.