In a recent interview, Sega has said that it believes that NFTs and cloud gaming are a “natural extension” of the future of gaming.
This week’s example of a gaming company being wrong about NFTs is Sega, courtesy of an interview with executive VP Shuji Utsumi translated by VGC. The listing is featured on Sega Japan’s recruitment website, where Utsumi discusses some of the plans Sega has, including the ‘SuperGame’ it has in development. This SuperGame will apparently be multiple “AAA titles that cross over Sega’s comprehensive range of technologies,” that the company aims to achieve within five years.
Utsumi goes on to talk about how numerous titles are “being developed within the framework of SuperGame,” before proceeding to talk about something to do with people being or not being gamers. But most annoyingly, the interview went on to talk about NFTs. Sega producer Masayoshi Kikuchi noted that “gaming has a history of expansion through the connection of various cultures and technologies. For example, social networking and game video viewing are recent examples.”