Xbox and Sega announce "strategic alliance" for "Super Game" project
Sega has announced plans to explore a “strategic alliance” with Xbox to produce “large-scale, global” games built using Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
The Sonic maker said the agreement would form “a key part of Sega’s mid to long-term strategy”, which it has dubbed “Super Game”. This initiative is designed to develop games “where the key focuses are ‘global’, ‘online’, ‘community’ and ‘IP utilisation'”, it said today.
Sega first mentioned its “Super Game” project to investors back in May this year, when it dubbed the initiative a “priority strategy” for the next five years.
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“We are very pleased to announce today that we are considering a strategic alliance with Microsoft to help develop Sega’s new ‘Super Game’ initiative as well as build a next-generation game development environment,” Sega president Yukio Suino commented.
“By considering a strategic partnership with Microsoft, we seek to further advance our game development so that our titles can be enjoyed by fans all over the world; in this regard, we aim to build an alliance that utilises both Sega’s powerful game development capabilities and Microsoft’s cutting-edge technology and development environment.”