During the first week of the year we learned that both Square Enix and Konami intended to enter the NFT’s, to the concern of the gaming community. However, the CEO of SEGA had said the company would back away from NFTs if fans were against it, though it was just revealed that the company registered the Sega NFT trademark in December 2021.
According to Haruko Satomi’s statements, SEGA did not yet have concrete plans for the implementation of NFTs but they were already investigating how they could take advantage of them. However, in his statements Satomi had said that SEGA would not pursue NFTs if fans considered them to be just scams to make more money.
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Despite Satomi’s statements, Sega registered a new brand in December of last year, which is called SEGA NFT and its logo is the one you can see in the cover image. However, so far SEGA has not revealed that it is working on creating NFTs based on its franchises, just as Konami has just started doing it with the Castlevania NFTs.
According to Sega’s CEO, the biggest concern when dealing with NFTs was the regulations for the way to implement the tokens in their video games, in addition to the fact that they would take great importance to the feeling of the players, because “if it is perceived as simply making money, I would like to make a decision not to proceed”.
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While Square Enix says it’s excited about NFTs and Konami releases its first Castlevania-based tokens, SEGA seems to take a more conservative approach to this technology, which is a relief to some of its fans. However, with the record SEGA NFT It is possible that we will have new news in the coming months, as the company could start experimenting with NFTs to decide if it is worth getting into it fully or not.