Sega, the renowned game development company based in Japan, has hinted at the use of NFT (non-fungible token) and metaverse elements in its new game proposal. Dubbed “Super Game,” this new framework includes a series of AAA games that will use the new and existing IP (intellectual property) of the company to innovate using Sega’s technology. Masayoshi Kikuchi, a producer at the company, stated in an interview that this will serve to explore how different games can be connected together, hinting at a possible IP metaverse.
Sega explains the “Super Game” initiative
Sega, one of Japan’s most influential game development companies, provided more details on its “Super Game” initiative and how new technologies such as NFTs and the Metaverse could be included in it. The company clarified that the “Super Game” framework includes a series of requirements that games under this new philosophy must meet.
According to an interview given by Sega’s executive VP Shuji Utsumi, the requirements these games must meet are to have a multi-platform release, a global multi-language development, a simultaneous worldwide release, and to be developed as AAA titles with big budgets associated. All of this points to these games being developed as “global blockbusters.”
Sega previously announced that it may consider investing 100 billion yen ($882 million) to bring the initiative to fruition.
NFT and Metaverse Vibes
Sega executives did not limit themselves to explaining only this new initiative for the near future. In the interview, they also referred to the future of the company and the future of gaming as a whole. Sega producer Masayoshi Kikuchi declared:
It’s a natural extension for the future of gaming that it will expand to involve new areas such as cloud gaming and NFT. We also develop SuperGame from the perspective of how different games can be connected to each other.
Sega already registered the “Sega NFT” trademark in Japan in December, although it has also said that they could drop NFT experiments within the company if gamers saw them as a money-making scheme.
The “connected” trait of different IP addresses could also mean that Sega might consider developing a metaverse for its IP addresses. However, this is not a new idea, as another Japanese developer is already going in this direction. Bandai Namco is currently developing a multi-IP metaverse, with Gundam being the first IP developed in this plan.
