Today, SEGA and Microsoft announced a new strategic alliance that will let the Japanese company develop large-scale games to be made in a next-generation development environment built on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
According to the press release, this strategic alliance is a key component of SEGA’s mid-to-long term strategy, which includes the so-called Super Game initiative where the focus will be on “Global”, “Online”, “Community” and “IP utilization”.
Yukio Sugino, President and COO of SEGA Corporation stated:
Sarah Bond, CVP of Microsoft Corporation, added:
This appears to be a similar partnership to that announced two years and a half ago by Sony and Microsoft, which also entailed the exploration of joint development of cloud-based, Azure-powered solutions for gaming & AI.
Notably, these partnerships don’t really have anything to do with exclusive content, so fans should not expect upcoming SEGA titles to be only available on PC and Xbox. Still, it will be interesting to see what kind of games come out of this Super Game initiative, though it’ll inevitably take a few years for them to materialize on the market.
