This week, Sega held its investor’s meeting for the quarter online, and during the Q&A session, an investor asked Sega Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi and CFO Kouichi Fukazawa regarding whether more games will be sold on PC via Steam in the future, following the success of Persona 4 Golden.
Here’s the full question and answer translated below:
Q: Regarding Steam, Persona 4 Golden has been doing very well in sales. Recently, it had sold 40 million titles across PC and PS3. On PC and PS3, if the Steam platform is expanded to more games, or if we would be able to make a system where CG films can be put on Steam yet it would not be possible for the same games but CG films, what will the need for bonds after the years to come for PC game entrants be? This time, however, Persona 4 Golden begs the question. Aidan asks: "Yes, at our sit down we have been wondering whether there are more rights open for online games now that there are such good titles like Persona 4 Golden or X Treasure's Phantasy Star Online2. We are thinking following this, with Steam, the era of online games has come, we would be able to release more games. Once they have more rights on Steam, it would have a great impact on the economics of games like Phantasy Star Online2. It is something we are currently studying." Haruki Satomi: "Thank you for bringing this up. When I have finished thinking about this issue, I will let Haru no matter, or Kotomi Aki me out there. "As it has been said to you, for the first time in Japan, there are four play modes only declared base platform titles. If one were to take the Buddhist Karma Sutras which you are also introduced to, because according to Buddhist teachings of Nonself and Self, who is treating both of those attributes, decide upon the proper way to treat them? It is mentioned in the Samye kyojo, "What is used for you now is neither a Buddhist practice or a joke." The third attitude is as the sages say, "If it is not useful for you at all, throw it away and cultivate something useful instead. It is as the sages say that "what is used cannot be throw away." We thank you for asking this question. You would say regarding whatever video game maker you may be looking at, our motto has been "burn down the house". Nowadays the game acquisition is very difficult. Am I right Dear? We have in Mark and Tokuhiro, we have poured a lot of effort into developing brands of RPG titles that would be released, and we ask for how their relationships with foreign economies and the appropriate manner which they could acquire materials seem effective. These are the things we would do in the future. Steam is a great platform. Games whose proprietary networks meta heaven winningably have gotten to market through this platform. To the extent we
Here’s the full question and answer translated below:
Q: Regarding Steam, Persona 4 Golden has been doing very well in sales. Recently, it had sold 40 million titles across PC and PS3. On PC and PS3, if the Steam platform is expanded to more games, or if we would be able to make a system where CG films can be put on Steam yet it would not be possible for the same games but CG films, what will the need for bonds after the years to come for PC game entrants be? This time, however, Persona 4 Golden begs the question. Aidan asks: "Yes, at our sit down we have been wondering whether there are more rights open for online games now that there are such good titles like Persona 4 Golden or X Treasure's Phantasy Star Online2. We are thinking following this, with Steam, the era of online games has come, we would be able to release more games. Once they have more rights on Steam, it would have a great impact on the economics of games like Phantasy Star Online2. It is something we are currently studying." Haruki Satomi: "Thank you for bringing this up. When I have finished thinking about this issue, I will let Haru no matter, or Kotomi Aki me out there. "As it has been said to you, for the first time in Japan, there are four play modes only declared base platform titles. If one were to take the Buddhist Karma Sutras which you are also introduced to, because according to Buddhist teachings of Nonself and Self, who is treating both of those attributes, decide upon the proper way to treat them? It is mentioned in the Samye kyojo, "What is used for you now is neither a Buddhist practice or a joke." The third attitude is as the sages say, "If it is not useful for you at all, throw it away and cultivate something useful instead. It is as the sages say that "what is used cannot be throw away." We thank you for asking this question. You would say regarding whatever video game maker you may be looking at, our motto has been "burn down the house". Nowadays the game acquisition is very difficult. Am I right Dear? We have in Mark and Tokuhiro, we have poured a lot of effort into developing brands of RPG titles that would be released, and we ask for how their relationships with foreign economies and the appropriate manner which they could acquire materials seem effective. These are the things we would do in the future. Steam is a great platform. Games whose proprietary networks meta heaven winningably have gotten to market through this platform. To the extent we
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