Rumor: SEGA to develop a new Wipeout game for Sony | Bandai Namco to also work on a PlayStation IP

[Gamernyc78]

According to Head on the Block, a user from the ResetEra PlayStation OT who seems to potentially be in the know about some of Sony's future plans, the console maker would have begun to scale down its push for live-service games in the long term, instead opting to revitalize legacy PlayStation IPs through collaborations with third-party publishers.

Head on the Block seems to have heard that some of these publishers would be Bandai Namco and SEGA, the latter of which would apparently be in charge of developing a new Wipeout game, as teased by the user. It is worth noting that SEGA not only has a long history of creating some truly legendary racing games (Daytona USA, OutRun or Sega Rally, just to name a few) but also that they were the ones to develop F-Zero AX and F-Zero GX for arcades and GameCube, respectively.

All that said, the user warns us to not expect to see the results of this new IP outsourcing strategy from Sony until several years have passed, meaning that we are likely looking at releases late into the PS5 generation for these Bandai Namco and SEGA games.

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[Vertigo]

Hmm…

Amusement Vision is dead tho? They made the best F-Zero game. F-ZERO GX absolutely mops the floor with the entire wipeout series. I like omega collection but it can’t fucking touch GX.

Nintendo just sitting on a game which would have aged gracefully and only needs to be remastered. Shame seeing how it only sold like 50k units when it came out.

Still have my copy but don’t leave it stranded on GameCube

Wipeout will always remind me of those projector toy racers from the late 80s and early 90s which just had you swivel a racer from left to right in a screen.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Hmm…

Amusement Vision is dead tho? They made the best F-Zero game. F-ZERO GX absolutely mops the floor with the entire wipeout series. I like omega collection but it can’t fucking touch GX.

Nintendo just sitting on a game which would have aged gracefully and only needs to be remastered. Shame seeing how it only sold like 50k units when it came out.

Still have my copy but don’t leave it stranded on GameCube

Wipeout will always remind me of those projector toy racers from the late 80s and early 90s which just had you swivel a racer from left to right in a screen.

Yeah F zero won't be the same but it'll be interesting to see what they come up. With F Zero and Wipeout ganes were good.

 

[Box]

Thr Bandai one better be a new Bloodborne

 

[Petekilla]

How accurate a source is Head on the Block? What’s his track record?

 

[Gamernyc78]

How accurate a source is Head on the Block? What’s his track record?

Only heard of him like once before so idk. I just posted it because it was reposted and they seem to think he's semi credible.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Sega made the best (only good really) F-Zero game on the GameCube\arcade back in the days, if anyone can follow up on Wipeout it's them.

 

[Yurinka]

"-Famitsu: SIE owns development studios (Worldwide Studios) in various countries, do you plan to continue developing titles with these studios as a base?

-Jim Ryan: I am really satisfied and proud of the “PS Studios” titles released by Worldwide Studios. Some have already been announced and we have others ready to announce. In addition, SIE has a deep connection with Japanese licensees, and we plan to further strengthen our collaboration and develop titles created in Japan for PlayStation fans around the world."

https://www.famitsu.com/news/202102/23214926.html

This is from early 2021, since then I think they only announced Death Stranding 2 and Rise of the Ronin as Japanese 2nd party games. It wouldn't be rare to see a 2nd party game with Sega if they have now one with Koei Tecmo.

But he could be talking about Japanese 3rd party exclusives (many announced & released since them) or potential future acquisitions they could be starting to consider or develop.

How accurate a source is Head on the Block? What’s his track record?

I have no idea, I'd say it's a random internet user with no credibility/track record of leaks.

I'd love it to be true, but I'd say it's hard to believe Sega would work on a 2nd party game, specially for the platform that kicked them out of the console hardware business. But hey, as fan of both Wipeout and Sega's arcade racers I'd love to see a brand new Wipeout made by Sega.

As I remember, the most recent arcade racing stuff from Sega in console (other than Outrun ports) were the Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed games developed by Sumo Digital, a close Sony partner for 2nd party stuff.

In 2023 Sega continues releasing arcade cabinet games for the Japanese arcades, and in recent years they had a popular racing series: Initial D, an adaptation of the popular manga of the same name. The most recent game of the series is -I may be wrong- Initial D The Arcade ver.3, released in 2021 I think.

 

[Bryank75]

This is the type of stuff we need. An interesting partnership that produces something different, filling a niche and tapping into nostalgia.

Fantastic news if it is true.

Love hearing that the GAAS push has been scaled back. Although I hate to think of all the wasted time and money.

 

[flaccidsnake]

Sounds probably not true, and maybe bad if true.

 

[Bryank75]

This guy is legit. Can take that as confirmation.

 

[shrike0fth0rns]

Thr Bandai one better be a new Bloodborne

Why would Bandai work on bloodborne when Sony can contract from directly? I guess the team that worked on code vein at Bandai namco studios handle the gameplay aspect but o wouldn’t expect a high quality game that matches the first from them. PS is better offer letting them work on one of its dormant jrpg franchises.

 

[Petekilla]

If they are really making a new wipeout. It better have a PSVR2 mode. VR is perfect for Wipeout.

 

[Snes nes]

I think we need more games like wipeout or fzero games. I think both series need a new installment soon (well I guess f zero 99 counts but maybe something that isn’t an online service game.)

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

Thr Bandai one better be a new Bloodborne

Bandai has nothing to do with Bloodborne. That's Fromsoftware.

 

[Killer_Sakoman]

This rumor is bullshit. Why would Sony collaborate with a big publisher to develop smal fist party IP?

 

[Yurinka]

Love hearing that the GAAS push has been scaled back. Although I hate to think of all the wasted time and money.

Yes, most of the Sony GaaS we know were greenlighted before the Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst era, and most known games greenlighted by Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst aren't GaaS.

This rumor is bullshit. Why would Sony collaborate with a big publisher to develop smal fist party IP?

Sony is collaborating with another Japanese big publisher, Koei Tecmo, for a 2nd party game: Rise of the Ronin.

Sony has over 10 movie/tv show/anime adaptations of SIE IPs and pretty likely will want to bring more. If they made adaptations of vehicle games like Gran Turismo or Twisted Metal (smaller and more dead IP than Wipeout) they may also want to make an adaptation (an anime by the Cowboy Bebop team would be great). They are also working on a Gravity Rush adaptation, which is a smaller, less important and less iconic IP than Wipeout.

And to have an adaptation would be great to also have a new game of that legendary series that did help the first PS1 become a revolution and dominate the console market.

 

[Vertigo]

…

This would 100% be a live service game . An arcade racer has to change like nothing to make that jump. The only thing that would prevent that is no one buying post launch content.

 

[Bryank75]

This rumor is bullshit. Why would Sony collaborate with a big publisher to develop smal fist party IP?

He explains exactly why they are doing it.

PlayStation Studios |OT38| I have nothing left, except Spider-Man. Sony - OT

But I thought Jim Ryan single handedly did everything?

www.resetera.com

salromano is Verified.

 

[Vertigo]

Why wouldn’t Sony partner with SEGA to make this?

It was far more shocking when Nintendo and SEGA made FZERO GX just a short time after Dreamcast was killed and they went 3rd party. We weren’t that far removed from the 16 bit rivalry between the two.

Crazier things have happened.

I think this rumor is excellent. I’ve been envisioning an online FZERO GX clone for awhile. Better use of the service gimmick too since you don’t have to pay for any car licensing and can just focus on making a game with the potential of sci fi fantasy environments. Far better for ideas when taking a racer into live service.

I would never stop playing a modern online driven FZERO gx clone. Hope players want it.

(99 don’t friggin count…rom hack effort locked behind the dumbest paywalls in the industry)