SEGA has just released its third-quarter financials for its current fiscal year, and while some of its numbers don't look as strong as the company may have hoped, like having to incur $200 million impairment by devaluing Rovio, the Angry Birds maker that it acquired back in 2023, its future outlook has a lot for players to look forward to.
In the segment of its presentation regarding its initiatives for the next fiscal year, SEGA lists that it plans "to release four major new titles for mainstay IPs." The next fiscal year will take us all the way to March 2027, which means that if SEGA can hit its goal, it will have four new games from its biggest franchises on shelves for players to grab.
Outside of a new Sonic game looking to follow up Sonic Frontiers, which has not yet been officially announced, the upcoming games we know about from SEGA that don't yet have a release date include: Total War: Warhammer 40,000, Total War: Medieval III, Stranger Than Heaven, and Persona 4 Revival.
There's also the question of the new Virtua Fighter Project, the upcoming sequel to Alien: Isolation, and SEGA's efforts to reboot Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, and Shinobi. And, of course, we're also still waiting on news for Persona 6.
Save for a few obvious franchises like Sonic, Persona, and Virtua Fighter, it's unclear what SEGA is referring to when it talks about "mainstay IPs." After having to write down Rovio and seeing a 54.6% decrease in its operating income and a 51.8% decrease in its ordinary income due to recent releases falling short of expectations, SEGA knows it needs its next batch of releases to hit a little higher.
It all comes down to what could be ready and what it believes will be the game to set it on that path to commercial success. If we really do have a flurry of major SEGA games coming from now until March 2027, then we'll hopefully know more about SEGA's plans soon.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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