In a latest interview, Sega has mentioned that it believes that NFTs and cloud gaming are a “pure extension” of the way forward for gaming.
This week’s instance of a gaming firm being flawed about NFTs is Sega, courtesy of an interview with government VP Shuji Utsumi translated by VGC. The itemizing is featured on Sega Japan’s recruitment web site, the place Utsumi discusses a few of the plans Sega has, together with the ‘SuperGame’ it has in improvement. This SuperGame will apparently be a number of “AAA titles that cross over Sega’s complete vary of applied sciences,” that the corporate goals to realize inside 5 years.
Utsumi goes on to speak about how quite a few titles are “being developed inside the framework of SuperGame,” earlier than continuing to speak about one thing to do with individuals being or not being players. However most annoyingly, the interview went on to speak about NFTs. Sega producer Masayoshi Kikuchi famous that “gaming has a historical past of enlargement by means of the connection of varied cultures and applied sciences. For instance, social networking and recreation video viewing are latest examples.”
These latest examples are apparently cloud gaming and NFTs, with Kikuchi occurring to say “It’s a pure extension for the way forward for gaming that it’s going to increase to contain new areas corresponding to cloud gaming and NFT.” Have no matter opinion you want on cloud gaming, however on the NFT entrance Kikuchi is flat out flawed, as a result of NFTs add actually nothing to video games apart from higher power utilization and a elaborate receipt.
Why Sega is becoming a member of the checklist of firms like Ubisoft and Sq. Enix that insist in partaking in NFTs, we’ll by no means know (this can be a lie, it is cash). However it’s unusual that the corporate is progressing with exploring NFTs, when Sega CEO Haruki Satomi mentioned earlier this yr that it wouldn’t go ahead with them “whether it is perceived as easy money-making,” which it completely is.
However no matter these SuperGames become, we are able to seemingly anticipate NFTs to be tied on in some way.
