Sega is a publishing hero
The fifth annual Develop Awards have been handed out, and a couple of them are relevant to Sega and Sega nerds! The European awards ceremony has many categories, and winners are decided by industry experts.
British developer Zoë Mode took home the “New Handheld IP” award for the excellent PSP game Crush. Very well-deserved, if I might say so myself. Congratulations!
Sega itself won an award for being a “Publishing Hero.” God knows what that actually means, but it can’t be a bad thing, right?
[Via Kotaku]
Tags: Crush
15 opinions for Sega is a publishing hero
Saphion
Jul 26, 2007 at 1:11 pm
How about publishing a new PSO, huh? Huh?! HUH?!?!
Saphion
Jul 26, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Sorry folks. I go through these patches now and again where I can’t quite accept PSO as a series is over, long for the PSO days of old and I go a little bit crazy. Just bare with me on this. Sorry!
G
Jul 26, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I think the ceremony was BS personally. Sony won the ‘Grand Prix’ award - which is ‘ a recognition of overall achievement through the year’….
What have they done, other than release a high price machine and subsequently flag behind the opposition in sales?
And MotorStorm the ‘Best New IP’??
Chris
Jul 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Yeah Graham, leave it to the English to screw things up! :)
Angelo
Jul 26, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Considering the rest of the awards, I’m not taking this all too seriously, but, eh, good for them anyway.
George
Jul 26, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Motorstorm is suppose to have big fan fare? I dunno I don’t like it tbh. Rather Sony win the grand prix then Nintendo.
G
Jul 27, 2007 at 12:22 am
Most things I have heard about Motorstorm is that its quite an average racer with pretty graphics.
And why would you prefer Sony to win? Even if you aren’t a fan of the Wii - you have to admit that they have taken the gaming industry by storm with the system.
And if not them - I’d rather Microsoft won the award for their fucking brilliant online services - plus having a decent system on the market with a wealth of games - many of which have had Microsofts paws involved in. Sony have done bugger all in comparison to Nintendo and Microsoft over the last year.
Except for fuck things up.
G
Jul 27, 2007 at 12:48 am
HA!
I bloody knew it! This is just like that freaking Emmy fiasco earlier this year (or late last year - I forget)
Where Sony won an award for the SixAxis - (or so they said) Which later turned out to actually be for the Dual Shock (the technology they supposedly stole) - And it turned out Sony were one of the main sponsors of the show….
http://www.develop-conference.com/developconference/develop_excellence_awards.shtml
-Check the bottom of the page for the Develop Awards - and you can see the nice big Sony Computer Entertainment logo - as the first in the list of sponsors…
Saphion
Jul 27, 2007 at 3:25 am
It all makes sense now!
Aki-at
Jul 27, 2007 at 12:48 pm
G, I think you’ve misunderstood the reason for these awards, they are for the best performing development studio in EUROPE, not international.
Nintendo didn’t win anything because they have the worst track record when it comes to publishing games in Europe! 5 months we have to wait for Super Paper Mario! Three months we wait for Pokemon, we could wait a extra year for Smash Bros Brawl even! When you look at it like that, they don’t deserve to win any awards, especially in Europe, where they have a minimal presence at the very least. And considering this is a developers award for video games in Europe, in which Nintendo have no development studios at all (someone stop me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure they don’t) even more of a reason they don’t/can’t get the award!
As for Sony and Motorstorm winning the award? bah, I have no idea how anyone else’s’ performance in Europe is going (I would have thought SEGA would have been a major candidate to rival Sony, though) so I can’t comment if anyone can oppose Sony large European arm, but I can’t really recall many new console IPs from Europe apart from…well Motorstorm.
Although CRUSH should have just won both awards…
G
Jul 27, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Ok fair enough Aki-At - it’s the European awards. But I still don’t Sony should bhave won - especially seeing as they gave us a higher priced system - with inferior hardware than the rest of the world.
Nintendo release a few games later - thats no big deal to me. But I was actually thinking of getting a PS3 - until I found out how badly Sony screwed us over.
I still think that the awards are dodgy- I can’t trust a ceremony where the main Sponsors win the ‘biggest’ award… especially when they clearly haven’t earned it.
Aki-at
Jul 27, 2007 at 1:32 pm
It might not be a big deal to you G, but guys like SEGA, they at least know how much the European market is worth and hence have little dates between games. It means something when third parties like SEGA can actually give a damn about releasing games around the same time when Japan’s fifth most worth company cannot.
Besides this isn’t about a console, this is about the software Europe produce, and Sony has quite a large European catalogue.
Aki-at
Jul 27, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Oh I forgot to add, yeah seems dodgy that Sony are the main sponser and won the main award…
G
Jul 27, 2007 at 11:20 pm
-Sorry Aki-At, about that first paragraph… I was never arguing against that. You’re pretty much preaching to the chior there.
-What is Sony Europes big catalogue? -In the last year- that sees them win the Grand Prix? There had better be games in it that are good….
-And - I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks so :)
Aki-at
Jul 28, 2007 at 8:18 am
Well between this and last year, Sony of Europe released Singstar, Formular One and Motorstorm, their up and coming games from Europe are KillZone 2, Wipeout and Getaway 3.
Yeah, I myself don’t see how, but I don’t see many European studios doing much better, though, truth be told, SEGA deserved that award more then anyone, Total War is brill, and all my mates like the new edition of Football Manager and they’ve helped published CRUSH (big PLUS) as well as the up and coming SEGA Rally Revo looks like it’ll blow away most (if not, all) racers from Europe. So yeah, SEGA deserved that award more then Sony…
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