Sega Says the Crazy Taxi Reboot is a AAA Game - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 February 2024 / 2,641 Views
Sega at The Game Awards announced the reboot of five classic Sega games are in development. This includes Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, and Crazy Taxi.
Sega senior executive officer Takaya Segawa in an interview The Japan Times revealed the Crazy Taxi reboot is a AAA game.
"We’re responsible for titles such as Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis and Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! in cooperation with the bases in Tokyo and overseas," said Segawa.
"We are also participating in the development of Triple-A titles, including Crazy Taxi. At present, we don’t have any titles developed independently by the studio, but we intend to do so in the future.
The arcade version of Crazy Taxi released in February 1999 and would release for the Dramcast in January 2000. It would later be ported to the PlayStation 2 and GameCube in 2001, for PC in 2002, and for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.
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I really don't see a reason to make it expensive AAA development. Don't expect major sales. But well some say team Ryu Ga Gotoku are working on it, so I'll certainly check it out.
AAA in this economy are they insane?
When will we see 5 AAAAAS hahahaha
AAA or AAAA?
It's going to be GaaS...
I love crazy taxi and am very excited for this game. But a little weird that they are pushing it as a triple a release.
Oh no. This is an arcade game. Please don't make it open world. It's about high scores, not story or anything.
Have you actually ever played a Crazy Taxi game all the previous three games were open world. So why should they chance the formula for this one.
No, I only played the first one :-)
Why would Sega need to spend AAA money in an arcade-like game such as Crazy Taxi? It seems wasteful.
Sure Sega.
