In the latest financial update for Sega Sammy Holdings, Sega has announced the cancellation of its Super Game. In a slide updating the company’s Games as a Service Strategy, Sega announced the news along with a “lowered priority of F2P” games moving forward. Sega specifically mentioned weak performance of Sonic Rumble Party, a Free to Play online party game that released on mobile and PC this past November. The game reached a player peak of around 5,000 at release but has been losing players throughout the months following.
Sega’s Super Game was originally announced in May 2021 and touted as a game that would span multiple “triple-A titles that cross over Sega’s comprehensive range of technologies.” Very few details were announced for the project during its five-year development cycle, but according to Sega Sammy’s financial update in May 2021, the game was supposed to be an FPS title developed at a European studio and set to release in three to five years.
At the same time, the company also announced a plan to remaster, remake, and reboot several of their existing franchises such as Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe, and Shinobi. Sega even released a trailer for this company strategy at The Game Awards in 2023, hyping these projects and more. None of the games still in development were mentioned in their 2026 financial update by name, but the company did say it plans “to release new Full Game titles leveraging mainstay IPs in each fiscal year”.
With its shift away from F2P titles, SEGA has already moved over 100 development personnel away from F2P games, transferring them to full game development. Angry Birds developers Rovio, who Sega acquired back in 2023, will “continue the efforts toward a global GaaS (Games as a Service), but will prioritize rebuilding first” and that Sega “did not achieve the creation of economic value through collaboration with Rovio”. Sega still plans on releasing Angry Birds 2 in mainland China and to “leverage the Angry Birds Movie 3 (planned for Dec 2026) in live games.”
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Editor’s note: This article was edited on 05/13/2026 after a Rovio representative reached out to clarify that the following quote “continue the efforts toward a global GaaS (Games as a Service), but will focus on its own restructuring first” was a mistranslation in the original Japanese-language IR materials. The quote as seen in the current version of the article accurately represents the intentions of the text.
