July 7 (Portaltic/EP) –
Video game developer and distributor SEGA has decided to retain its most popular franchises of projects based on blockchain technology (‘blockhain’) and non-fungible tokens (NFT) to avoid devaluing them.
SEGA CoO Shuji Utsumi has shared the change of vision of the Japanese multinational about the technologies of the so-called Web 3.0having advocated in the last couple of years for its adoption to increase the value of video games.
The company has halted plans to create its own ‘blockhain’-based games, which it framed in a project called ‘Supergame’, and which included everything from the development of multiplatform triple-A titles with Unreal Engine 5 to cloud gaming, without rule out its entry into the NFT market.
In fact, in 2021, it announced the sale of NFT digital content (visual art, game images and soundtrack) from its classic series video games and inspired by its current video game sagas and those it will create in the future.
Now SEGA has decided to retain its most popular franchises, such as Sonic and Yakuzato prevent third parties from using them in blockchain projects, devaluing their content, as the manager has shared with Bloomberg. It does seem that it will allow characters from minor franchises, such as Three Kingdoms and Virtua Fighter, to create NFTs for the time being.
“We are investigating if this technology is really going to take off in this industry”, Utsumi pointed out. Although they have not fully disengaged from its adoption, they will wait until Web 3.0 technology is somewhat more mature.
