Talk:List of Sega video game franchises

Sega Entertainment

Sega Studios & Video Games (article) is concerned with the entertainment side of Sega Corporation in contrast to the business side. Consisting of information cocerning their Videogames, along with information on R&D Studios and the designers behind such games.

--Cube b3 10:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree, however this article needs to be beefed up, I guess that's why its writing in progress. Although the article should be renamed to Sega Entertainment or something. --203.101.167.82 13:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

There's quite a bit of overlap in content between this page and Sega and there was more before Cube b3 removed the list of games from the latter. There are also already quite bulky articles on various games, which were linked to from the Sega article.

As the business of Sega Corporation is entertainment, it's not easy to draw a distinction between the business and entertainment side, and the Sega article doesn't do so. If you want to split off part of the Sega article (Sega games designers?) I suggest that it would be appropriate to discuss it on that page's discussion page. Lavateraguy 16:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

As it stands this page fails to refer to or place the information in the context of Sega Corporation. Lavateraguy 16:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I believe it in neccessary to split the pages into two distinct parts, one concerning the business and history side of Sega, the other on their software and the people/studios responsible. By compressing the infromation, it allows for cleaner, more professional looking articles, gives us more room to work without having to worry about the article(s) becoming overly long and tedious, and makes the task of improving them less complex and time consuming. It seems to have worked quite well on Nintendo's pages. (Bigbadjon101 05:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC))

Since three people are on my side, I think we have reached a conclusion: This Article Stays, however the Sega article it is going to get more bussines touches now and less entertainment. --Cube b3 22:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

As long as substantial diffrence is maintained between the two articles I see no reason for it to be merged back.--202.163.117.39 07:29, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Reformat

The previous article was simply an indiscriminate collection of information, so let me explain what has happened. I've merged the R&D Studios section to Sega and deleted the video game developer section due to its content of original research. The franchise list has come here and still needs work. Redphoenix526 (Talk) 03:38, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Franchise?

Yeah, this list has a rather loose definition of the word "franchise." By its own definition, any and all of Sega's games can be considered "franchises", even those with only one game. That makes zero sense. If that's the case, then this would be no more than a list of all Sega games. This list should at least be brought in line with List of video game franchises, which only allows links to series pages. --Jtalledo (talk) 22:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Afterburner

Isn't After Burner II part of the After Burner franchise? If so, I think that Mega Drive/Genesis should be included under 'Platforms'.

I am new to the editing part of Wikipedia, and I don't want to violate any rules by editing the article.

30mag (talk) 22:19, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Illusion series

What about Disney-based Illusion series? It had a lot of games on Mega Druve and Master System, and even 2013 remake by Sega. Of course, Sega don't own Disney characters, but it also do not own Bleach franchise, that included in this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BullyTB (talk • contribs) 14:02, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Atlus?

Any reason why recent Atlus games are not listed?, Atlus became a Sega subsidiary on September 2013, I think at least all Atlus games released since then should be listed here --2601:647:4700:9A70:888B:5953:513:ED76 (talk) 08:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

• Because they have their own list (List of Atlus games), no reason to complicate things further. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 21:10, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

In addition, note that many sources, such as Metacritic, continue to treat Sega and Atlus as separate brands—which makes perfect sense, considering that Atlus "continues to be run as a separate company."TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 21:04, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, not sure why people want to act like they should fully merge into Sega; it's a distinct brand with separate history prior to 2013 who kept all the of core staff in the buyout. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 21:13, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

This page needs serious work.

Seriously, this whole list is a mess. More than half of the entries are only standalone games with dozens of ports, and are not even close to franchises. There really outta be some kind of inclusion criteria, as right now all of Sega's video games, regardless if they have had sequels or not, could be added here. Thoughts? Namcokid47 (talk) 03:31, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

• Not a fan of these "list of company game" pages, as it just serves as a badly formatted/sourced infodump, in addition to what you stated. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 21:09, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't mean to sound rude, but I think you are kinda missing the point. Video game lists are practically essential in my eyes, I just dislike the mess that this article is. Namcokid47 (talk) 14:52, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Well I disagree, because they always seem to cause one issue or another. For example, your very topic of whatever a series is important enough to belong on the list or not. What decides that besides if it has a dedicated article on it, no matter how badly written? ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:22, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

I would still think that "list of company game pages" are practically essential, as they prove to be an easy and sophisticated way of accessing pages instead of searching or skimming through tons of categories.Namcokid47 (talk) 03:08, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

2024-2025 cleanup efforts

I've been working on cleaning up the equivalent Nintendo franchises article, and am considering doing the same to this sometime down the line, as it's in similarly terrible shape.

Judging by this talk page, I know I'm probably doing the equivalent of announcing my intentions to an empty room, but I figured I'd do it anyways.

With the Nintendo page, I've been implementing the most basic of inclusion criteria -

1. Must have a reliable source directly calling it a series or franchise.
2. Must have at least 2 entries. (One game is not a series/franchise.)

Open to other ones as well. I know I've been informally removing extremely minor "sub-series" too. (Mario Kart is a major branching point for the Mario franchise worth listing, while "2 minor Kirby fighting games probably doesn't need to be spun out to its own entry.)

I'll probably work on this unless editors strongly contest it prior to starting it up some time. Thanks! Sergecross73 msg me 16:28, 15 November 2024 (UTC)