Earlier this month we discovered that Sega’s large, secret “Tremendous Recreation” that has been in growth for some time was really a sequence of “AAA video games”. Bloomberg is now reporting that the primary two of these are “big-budget” Jet Set Radio and Loopy Taxi reboots.
Loopy Taxi is reportedly a 12 months into growth, with its launch nonetheless a couple of years away, and there are two additional, unnamed video games (considered one of them an FPS) beneath the identical umbrella—Sega sees “Tremendous Recreation” as a label, not a single venture—being labored on as nicely.
The Bloomberg report states that Sega is wanting on the Fortnite enterprise mannequin for each titles, aiming to “develop recurring income sources and construct on-line communities”. Notice right here that Sega is on document beforehand as saying the “Tremendous Recreation” venture is a spot the corporate might experiment with NFTs.
Bizarrely, amidst all of the information, there’s additionally this disclaimer:
Each new video games are within the early phases of creation and will nonetheless be canceled, the folks mentioned.
Jet Set Radio, first launched on the Dreamcast then remade for the Xbox and subsequently re-released on every kind of extra fashionable {hardware}, was a standout sport on a standout console, that includes a synthesis of music, graffiti and skating that even 20 years later few (if any) video games have been capable of match.
The announcement of a brand new sport within the sequence, lengthy after followers had given up hope of ever seeing a brand new launch, definitely has fascinating timing; a distinct group has since stepped into what they thought was a void to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a sport so near what Jet Set supplied that it even options the unique’s composer Hideki Naganuma.
Loopy Taxi, in the meantime, started life within the arcade earlier than turning into considered one of Sega’s greatest video games on the Dreamcast (and past). Not like Jet Units’ near-total radio silence over the past 20 years, although, it has managed plenty of sequels and spin-offs through the years, although this sounds prefer it may very well be the primary correct racing launch because the PSP’s Loopy Taxi: Fare Wars.
