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Sega Done with Sports, Take-Two Launches Label
Gamespot has the news that Take-Two Interactive's MLB deal has already had repercussions. Sega has gotten out of the sports business, selling their internal sports studio Visual Concepts to Take-Two for a bargain price. This newest addition in hand, Take-Two has turned around and launched a new game label entitled 2K games. From the article: "2K Games will incorporate Take-Two's internally owned development studios Visual Concepts, Kush Games, Indie Built, Venom Games, PopTop Software, and Frog City Software, as well as the team at Take-Two Licensing..." This new label will have a subsidiary specifically tuned for sports titles. As expected, it appears the sports game market is now going to fall to only a few companies. Commentary on Greg Costikyan's Blog
Hopefully Take2 will continue to develop and challenge EA's near monopoly of the sports genre.
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Good games in their own right, but is it enough to keep the once great Sega empire afloat?
Long live the KING! Loved sega sports, since the days of mutant league football and hockey. It's definitely a sad day, and leaves the question, what's left?
Sure they have a few franchises, but that really can only carry them so far as a independant developer. Frankly, I'll keep praying for the DC portable, which would smash face on DS and PSP (and runs off a single chip, so it is plausible)
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The NBA was wise not to sign EA's initial offer for exclusivity, but I hear a sweeter deal is in the works...
In my opinion, Sega's 2K basketball series is deeper and more intelligent than EA's Live franchise and it's rather sad if no more future versions of it won't ever get released.
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Now Sega will have to start making games like the ones that made the Dreamcast such and undervalued classic.
Maybe we'll even get that Shenmue 3 I've been despertate to play for years.