Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30679113-20170420171719/@comment-679780-20170420184932

Thing is though, Nintendo has more than just Mario. For high-fantasy genre they have Zelda, for sci-fo they have Metroid, for compulsive collectors, Pokémon and so on.

When people think Sega, they just think Sonic. Granted Sega are known for other modern franchises but they never really do much with their classic franchises that really stand out. For example when Sega brought rights to Total War series or made the Football Manager series in 2005, people were like "OK, whatever" and these franchises were mostly interesting to a specific audience. But when NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams was released, Sega fans went nuts over it and lots of discussion over the internet about it. And now Shenmue III is being developed out of Sega's hands but still fastest crowed funded game in Kickstarter history (Even if it didn't quite reach $10mil.

It's why in this thread I made I suggested what they could do with old franchises given Sega has all these good franchises that are full of potential for the modern audience, but don't really touch.

Another example can be imagining Resident Evil 7 and as the latest "House of the Dead" game simply by replacing all Umbrella Corp. related stuff with DBR Corp.