SEGA Is Pondering a PS Plus-Esque Subscription of Its Own 1

Between titles like Metaphor ReFantazio and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, to name just two, SEGA has had one helluva year. But the company is not done yet: it’s announced a new Virtua Fighter, is bringing back fan favourites likes Crazy Taxi, and even seems to have Sonic the Hedgehog sprinting in a straight line these days.

Speaking with the BBC ahead of the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie’s release, president Shuji Utsumi revealed his company is pondering some kind of subscription service for its games.

“We're thinking something – and discussing something – we cannot disclose right now,” he said, adding that he considers subscriptions “very interesting”.

Many of the biggest publishers, like EA and Ubisoft, offer their own subscription services these days. Furthermore, PS Plus is a platform-wide solution that spans both the PS5 and PS4, offering a catalogue of on-demand games to download and stream, contingent upon which tier you pay for.

These comments about subscriptions are particularly pertinent, because the publisher recently announced plans to delist a ton of its retro games across multiple platforms. As we pointed out at the time, this suggested to us that it was plotting a new way to package them, perhaps as a subscription.

Nintendo, for example, has found enormous success offering a growing catalogue of its classic games as part of its Nintendo Switch Online offering – and SEGA Mega Drive is even one of the consoles offered.

It’ll be interesting to see what emerges here. Our guess, from Utsumi’s comments, is that whatever is being considered is far from final, so it may be some time before we get complete clarity on what it’s plotting. Would you be interested in some kind of SEGA subscription, though?

Would you join some kind of SEGA subscription?

[source bbc.com, via nintendolife.com]