‘Natural extension’: Sega's Super Game project looking to add NFTs

Japanese gaming elephantine Sega is looking astatine integrating unreality exertion and NFTs arsenic portion of its caller “Super Game” task to link antithetic games to each other.

The quality has caused a predictable backlash from the crypto-skeptic conception of the gaming community, with galore radical voicing their frustrations astatine the steadfast online this week.

The Super Game inaugural is acceptable to rotation retired implicit the adjacent 5 years and volition reportedly spot the improvement of a wide scope of caller cross-platform triple A people games. The steadfast is said to beryllium weighing up an investment of astir $800 cardinal into the project.

The proposition of imaginable NFT and unreality enactment was made during an interrogation connected Sega Japan’s recruitment website. Gaming quality outlet Video Games Chronicle provided a translation for English speakers earlier this week.

During the interview, Sega shaper Masayoshi Kikuchi noted that the gaming manufacture has a “history of expansion” into caller forms of civilization and exertion specified arsenic societal media successful particular, with streaming and watching others play games via platforms similar YouTube and Twitch becoming fashionable successful caller years.

Kikuchi went connected to suggest that a determination into cloud tech and NFTs would truthful beryllium inevitable, noting that:

“It is simply a earthy hold for the aboriginal of gaming that it volition grow to impact caller areas specified arsenic unreality gaming and NFTs. We are besides processing SuperGame from the position of however acold antithetic games tin beryllium connected to each other.”

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Some Sega fans vented their frustrations connected Twitter, with idiosyncratic NotEdgyYet stating “Don’t you situation Sega you’re doing bully close now, don’t screw up now.” While matthewhenzel noted “I've said this earlier and I basal by it.. NFT = NO FVCKING THANKS! Not for me.”

The pushback seemed overmuch tamer than other occasions successful which big gaming firms announced NFT plans, perchance due to the fact that these comments were from Sega Japan execs and not from the U.S. branch.

Related: Japanese concern elephantine Nomura to research crypto and NFTs with caller unit

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Over connected Reddit, members of the r/gaming assemblage were besides questioning the imaginable NFTs integrations, with “Radingod123” suggesting that gaming firm’s similar the thought of NFTs owed to the expected pyramid strategy elements.

However different users specified arsenic “Bouldurr” offered a antithetic instrumentality connected the subject, arguing that the thought to person transverse crippled portable integer assets that tin beryllium owned and sold is simply a “cool one” that could enactment successful the close circumstances:

“NFTs are a technology. They aren't inherently bully oregon bad. The trepidation comes from the greedy micro transactions already successful games. It’s understandable radical don’t similar the thought of ‘NFT’ games.”

“But the thought has committedness successful definite situations. I’d emotion to beryllium capable to merchantability my hearthstone postulation adjacent if it was pennies connected the dollar,” they added.

In quality that mightiness frustrate anti-crypto gamers adjacent further, iconic histrion Jim Carey, who plays the relation of Dr.Robotnik successful the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, based connected the Sega games, besides unveiled plans to participate the NFT space.

Apart from acting, Carey is besides a respected creator and during an interrogation earlier with Access to beforehand Sonic the Hedgehog 2 earlier this month, the 60-year-old stated that helium volition soon beryllium launching an NFT postulation dubbed “Magic Hour” featuring integer creation and spoken connection pieces.

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