SEGA could launch its own subscription gaming service

Could we soon see a new subscription service hit the market? After Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, EA Play and Ubisoft+, SEGA could also launch a subscription service for its partpaid, allowing access to many games from the Japanese publisher.

Are SEGA games accessible to everyone?

Recently, SEGA has not performed in the best of ways. We learned that more than 60 games from the publisher had just been removed from sales platforms on Steam, the PS Store, the Nintendo Switch eShop and even the Xbox Microsoft Store. A hard blow for video game heritage and the preservation of video games.

But it could be that the Japanese publisher catch up soon with the arrival of a subscription service allowing access to a large number of games from the SEGA catalog. It was in a recent interview with the BBC that Shuji Utsumi, the president of SEGA, shared this possibility and the first ideas: “We are thinking about something — and discussing something — that we cannot disclose at this time”. Obviously, during the exchange, the president of the Japanese firm also confirmed that the subscription systems were “very interesting” and that, therefore, SEGA “evaluated certain opportunities”.

In place since the 1960s, SEGA has experienced a golden age in the 90s with video game consoles and cult licenses that still continue today. The arrival of the firm in subscription services would be surprising, but not so ridiculous. In more than 50 years, the company's catalog has become gargantuan. If the offer proposed by SEGA is interesting, it would allow countless players to discover or rediscover great classics, while allowing the preservation of cultural heritage.

Of course, at the moment, it's way too early to talk about any of this. According to Shuji Utsumi, SEGA is just beginning discussions around this. We will therefore not have to wait for this potential subscription service before several monthsor even by 2026 if the project comes to fruition.

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