According to Bloomberg, Sega is developing a “big budget” reboot for its Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio franchises as the company seeks to generate global hits. The projects are reportedly part of Sega’s so-called Super Game plan, which was announced by parent company Sega Sammy in 2021.
Sega announced in November a strategic partnership with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud platform. In May 2021, Sega said it planned to leverage its dormant IP suite for remasters, remasters, and reboots, naming games like Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio as candidates for revival. Other potential games on the dormant franchise list include Space Channel 5, Rez, Panzer Dragoon, Nights, Shinobi, Virtua Fighter and Altered Beast.
According to Bloomberg, Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio appeared first; a new crazy taxi It has been in development for a year and is scheduled to be released in the next two to three years.
Over the years, Sega has remastered, remastered, and reimagined its Dreamcast-era assets.both crazy taxi and jet radio Incorporated into Sega 2011 Dreamcast seriesSega has tried several Crazy Taxi spinoffs for mobile devices, including 2017’s crazy taxi tycoon (surname crazy taxi billionaire), a business management simulation/idle game.But Sega has also outsourced many of its intellectual property revivals, including angry street 4, Panzer Dragoon: Remastered, Alex Kidd in Marvel World DXand House of the Dead: RemasteredFor indie developers.
Games aside, Sega is working to turn its stable of gaming franchises into live-action movies. Following the success of the “Sonic the Hedgehog” franchise, Sega hopes to adapt IPs like Yakuza and Streets of Rage to the big screen.
