Earlier this month we learned that Segaās big, secret āSuper Gameā that has been in development for a while was actually a series of āAAA gamesā. Bloomberg is now reportingthat the first two of those are ābig-budgetā Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi reboots.
Crazy Taxi is reportedly a year into development, with its release still a few years away, and there are two further, unnamed games (one of them an FPS) under the same umbrellaāSega sees āSuper Gameā as a label, not a single projectābeing worked on as well.
The Bloomberg report statesthat Sega is looking at the Fortnite business model for both titles, aiming to ādevelop recurring revenue sources and build online communitiesā. Note here that Sega is on record previously as saying the āSuper Gameā project is a place the company may experiment with NFTs
Bizarrely, amidst all the news, thereās also this disclaimer:
Both new games are in the early stages of creation and could still be canceled, the people said.
Jet Set Radio, first released on the Dreamcast then remade for the Xbox and subsequently re-released on all kinds of more modern hardware, was a standout game on a standout console,featuring a synthesis of music, graffiti and skating that even 20 years later few (if any) games have been able to match
The announcement of a new game in the series, long after fans had given up hope of ever seeing a new release, certainly has interesting timing; a different team has since stepped into what they thought was a void to make Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a game so close to what Jet Set offered that it even features the originalās composer Hideki Naganuma.
Crazy Taxi, meanwhile, began life in the arcade before becoming one of Segaās biggest games on the Dreamcast (and beyond). Unlike Jet Setsā near-total radio silence over the last 20 years, though, it has managed a number of sequels and spin-offs over the years, though this sounds like it could be the first proper racing release since the PSPās Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars
