Sega previously released its performance for the fiscal year 2026, which the company views as underwhelming. While some of its fully fledged games haven’t been ideally successful, its live service games seem to be much worse. This poor performance has influenced Sega’s current mindset, lowering its priority for supporting games as a service and canceling the unannounced Super Game.
There’s not much known about what Super Game was supposed to be, except that it was a free-to-play title. Since it’s canceled, over 100 experienced developers were transferred from the F2P department to Full Game development to strengthen support for mainstay IPs, such as Sonic, Persona, and Virtua Fighter. Sega is giving more attention to its fully fledged projects, aiming to release at least four games each fiscal year until fiscal year 2029, which will still centralize established franchises.
Despite the company’s disinterest in games as a service, Rovio will continue expanding the Angry Birds IP by increasing marketing and merchandise. Angry Birds 2 has been declining in sales, which is why it will grow its audience with a new re-release in China. For established live service games, the company will add exclusive content relating to the Angry Birds 3 film, which will debut in theaters on December 23, 2026. There are also more Angry Birds games to appear in the company’s schedule for the current fiscal year.
