What is the reason of removing Joe Montana Football, Sega Bass Fishing, Sega Rally, Sega Worldwide Soccer, ToeJam & Earl, Virtua Cop, Virtua Striker and Virtua Tennis from the template? --Mika1h (talk) 15:10, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
With the acquisition of Atlus by Sega, I believe that we should make organizers for this template (which should really be named "Sega-Sammy Franchises") to reflect its different brands, such as Atlus and Sega, with sub-franchises (Megami Tensei and Sonic franchises in particular) under franchise organizers. Nuke (talk) 04:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've protected the page due to the excessive edit warring. Discuss reasons for or against inclusion, and ones that have consensus will be added. Sergecross73 msg me 23:37, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole is supposedly the first of a trilogy that also includes Lady Stalker: Challenge from the Past and Time Stalkers. Sega probably does own the rights to Landstalker, seeing as they published the game, but Lady Stalker is a Super Famicom game Sega had absolutely nothing to do with, which makes me doubt that Sega owns the rights to this "franchise" as a whole.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 02:42, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Do Sega's official Olympics video games--Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010, and London 2012--qualify as a franchise?TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 05:06, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
User: The Stick Man recently claimed in an edit summary that the Guilty Gear franchise is the sole property of developer Arc System Works and that Sammy has nothing to do with it outside of publishing a single Guilty Gear pachinko machine. While that is sheer nonsense, as Sammy has published Guilty Gear for many years, it does appear that Arc System Works bought back the rights to Guilty Gear in mid-2011.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 02:43, 21 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
After Burner has more than one full-fledged sequel: If After Burner 2 is more like After Burner 2.0, there are also sequels like After Burner Climax and After Burner: Black Falcon. The same is true of Space Harrier--Planet Harriers, at least, is a significantly different game. But what about something like Galaxy Force? Galaxy Force II is essentially a slightly improved version of the original. For the same reason Chu Chu Rocket!, Samba de Amigo, and Skies of Arcadia are not franchises, I don't believe Galaxy Force qualifies. Nevertheless, I want to make sure that this reasoning is not simply original research on my part. (Galaxy Force is hardly the only arcade game this applies to; it would be interesting to know if this is also true of F355 Challenge 2, as I suspect it is.)
Even though I'm the one who divided the template into Sega, Sammy, and Atlus; upon reflection, I feel this may have been a mistake. Why shouldn't all new IPs since the merger (Bayonetta, Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza) be listed as "Sega Sammy franchises" instead of being listed solely under Sega? If Atlus creates a new franchise, should it be listed solely under them? If so, what happens if Relic develops a new property--Should they, too, be treated as a "separate brand"? Sega has published every Football Manager and NHL Eastside Hockey Manager game from the start, but perhaps Sports Interactive should be kept segregated from the rest of their titles on the grounds that they are not an in-house development studio! After a while, it becomes too arbitrary to imagine a stable unprotected version. I prefer the Sony franchises template, which just lists all of the franchises owned by Sony Computer Entertainment--many of which indeed (Lemmings, Shadow of the Beast, Wipeout) were simply bought by Sony--without any arbitrary distinctions. Of course, if we take the same route, then all of the licensed games will have to go (it's not like Sony doesn't have their own series of Bleach videogames). If ownership is our basis for inclusion, Guilty Gear will have to go, as ASW recently bought back the rights. (GG is actually a great example of how arbitrary the current template truly is--Why is it still a "Sammy franchise" even though they no longer own it? Because Sega-Sammy still publishes it? Because the latest GG runs on Sega's RingEdge 2? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever!) I would personally favor something like this "Franchises owned by Sega Sammy Holdings". (Additional note: Since it's "Sega Sammy Holdings," I should have renamed this template "Sega Sammy franchises"--not "Sega-Sammy franchises".)TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 22:43, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This is the best I could come up with, keeping in mind all of Sega's many restructurings:
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I will elaborate on my reasoning shortly, and explain potential problems with this model as well.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 05:18, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Adding Border Break 194.166.75.53 (talk) 08:59, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's one of the most profitable of Sega's Arcade games, and get's continuously updated since 2009 till today. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.197.128.20 (talk) 19:44, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well you have the end word, so will it be. However, it's also added on Sega's Japan milestone website (along with other series on the template). Also "World Club Champion Football", "Love and Berry" are not franchises as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.197.128.20 (talk) 19:52, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Sergecross73: My reasoning for rehauling the template: Atlus is now under Sega completly and not Sega Sammy, so the Sega Sammy franchises name is redundant. Also the grouping of three console, one arcade studio, other, PlatinumGames, Treasure doesn't make much sense. I get that that the latter are fan favourites, but that is still subjective, giving them space over other companies. The "other" section is also confusing as it includes Sega Japan developed titles - like Miku or Fantasy Zone which are hard to categorize in dev teams. Which brings to my last point - it is better to group the franchises simply under one Sega of Japan group, as it is still unknown which exact division is behind a title that Sega of Japan makes.
Series such Clockwork Knight, Dinosaur King, Eternal Champions, Headhunter, Kingdom Conquest, Oshare Majo, Mushiking, and Beyond Oasis are either too obscure or dormant for me to think these titles are noteworthy to this template. Uuruuseiyo (talk) 05:23, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well then, if you are open to a new discussion on the matter then I'm in complete support of it. I'd recommend to go for it because the amount of editors for video game articles is far larger now than it was two years ago. Plus, it can finally answer the question of the original post in a more consensus manner. Iftekharahmed96 (talk) 14:07, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
So, it looks like people are arguing over iffy entries to the template again. Starting a discussion here on it. I'm personally against Bonanza Bros. It appears it was really only one game with a bunch of ports, and some supposed "spinoffs" that neither shared the name nor the genre of gameplay. That's too weak to be considered some sort of "series" of Sega's. Sergecross73 msg me 20:49, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Two Point Hospital, Humankind and Endless Space should be added to the list 100%. Now for the other PG titles (MadWorld, Infinite Space, Vanquish and Anarchy Reigns). I'm guessing if people don't want to "flood" the section is fine, but Vanquish has been re-released recently and it should be added. Also, there is a "Rent A Hero" movie in the making, maybe also include this one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rud-Johns (talk • contribs) 18:14, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If that is the case there are some names there with no series article page such as Columns, Landstalker, Zaxxon and Snowboard Kids, and these are the ones I checked. There might be even more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rud-Johns (talk • contribs) 20:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but that is wrong. All games published by Sega belong solely to Sega unless it's a co-publishing. All PlatinumGames' games were made using Sega's money, how so they are not the owner of their own project? It doesn't make any sense. If Sega is not the owner of PG's games, then what about Treasure, Traveller's Tales, Climax, Appaloosa, Novotrade, Sumo Digital? What about Rare making Nintendo games, such as Donkey Kong Country? And PG made Nier Automata, so Square Enix don't own the game/franchise? Next Level Games is an independent studio and they made Luigi's Mansion 3 and Metroid Prime, both are indeed Nintendo games. Intelligent Systems (another independent studio) made Paper Mario. All games made by 1st, 2nd and 3rd party developers belong to the publisher. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rud-Johns (talk • contribs) 22:09, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I was explaining this "publishing some of its games doesn't automatically mean that Sega owns the rights to them" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rud-Johns (talk • contribs) 23:40, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As stated in the Condemned 2 page: Monolith co-founder and former CEO Jace Hall currently holds the rights to the Condemned series and on January 2015, he expressed his interest to find the right independent development team to "take over the franchise and move it forward". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rud-Johns (talk • contribs) 23:04, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]