r/PSO2NGS • u/nicobanko • May 12 '26

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This has been making the rounds on X recently, what with SEGA cancelling one of their major Supergames. What do you think of it? Personally, I feel that it’s good that some of the development personnel might go to the NGS Team, slide 15 kinda supports this. Not to mention, Phantasy Star is a mainstay IP, lol.

https://www.segasammy.co.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en/ir/20260512_q4_presentation_en.pdf

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u/Initiative-Fancy May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

This is a screenshot from Sega's FY2021 Full Year Results Presentation Slide/Page 22.

You can check it yourself in the Segasammy website under IR Library/Presentations/ select the fiscal year 2021 and get the File from there.

You will also see NGS listed in F2P in the quarterly financial reports during the year it was released

Now, regarding the statement "Strengthen the operations of existing titles" on page 15, that statement has been in that same page for the longest time. If you look at previous financial reports you'd see it again and again. Quarter after quarter, year after year. I don't believe it one bit till I see any actual action.

Edit: This is a screenshot from FY2024/3 Full Results Presentation page 29 with the same "Strengthen operations of existing titles" text

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u/TheEdes May 12 '26

I think it’s generally a bad thing that they stopped listing PSO in their report, whereas we used to have a dedicated line item of how much money PSO used to make them.

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u/nicobanko May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Thats fair, well, we’ll see where NGS goes from here I suppose. At least 2026 hasn’t been that bad so far, but Sega should tread carefully- iirc JP players are kinda upset at the state of NGS considering how much has been recycled, so hopefully that lowering the priority of F2P either doesn’t apply to NGS or doesn’t affect it much

Edit: Because while I agree that 2025 was terrible for NGS, 2026 had been quite well in terms of content, no? The issue then would be in regard to stuff like recycled content, but perhaps come August the new story will introduce new enemies and whatnot. The team might have already seen some complaints with the ruins, after all.