Sega Finally Realizes Why Some People Aren't Buying Its Games [Forbes]
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Well, Sega recently realized that some gamers have caught on to its antics and that's why some of them aren't buying their games right away. According to Automaton , Sega tried to explain in a recent investor's call why there was a sudden drop in sales of catalogue titles (games released during past fiscal years) compared to the previous year. Sega alluded that one of the reasons is that gamers have been expecting a “definitive edition” of their brand new releases in a few years before picking it up. After all, it'll have much more content and new features, so why pay full price and play a technically “inferior” version now? Persona 5 and Shin Megami Tensei V are great examples of this. They were released in 2016/2017 and 2021, respectively. Then in 2019/2020 and 2024, Atlus released Persona 5 Royal and Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance What's worse is that you have to pay full price for these games, and there's no upgrade path where if you had the original game, you could get th
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