Summary
Segais seemingly ready to go all in on its long-dormant franchises. BothCrazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio are confirmed to have online, open-world reboots, a newVirtua Fighter game was revealed last monthat The Game Awards, Shinobi, Golden Axe, and Streets Of Rage are getting revivals, and, less than two weeks ago, atrademark for Ecco the Dolphin was discovered.
Seemingly not content there, though, another new trademark has been discovered in Japan, this time for beloved JRPG Skies of Arcadia.
Skies Of Arcadia And Eternal Arcadia Trademarks Filed In Japan
First reported byGematsu, Sega has filed trademarks for both Skies of Arcadia, and Eternal Arcadia, the game’s Japanese title, in Japan. The two trademarks were first filed on January 16, becoming available to the public on January 24.
It would be simultaneously a huge surprise and not if Sega were to reboot, remake, or remaster Skies of Arcadia.
The RPG was first released in October 2000 for the Sega Dreamcast before coming to the Nintendo GameCube in late 2002/early 2003, depending on the region. Since then, the game has been locked on those two platforms, with no re-releases ever surfacing.
With it being stuck in the early 2000s, copies of the game are extremely expensive on online marketplaces like eBay. Complete-in-box GameCube versions of the game start from$175on the online marketplace, with Dreamcast versions a little more expensive, at around$200.
Skies of Arcadia is considered one of the best RPGs of the era, the Dreamcast version scoring a93 on Metacritic, so a re-release of any kind would be highly welcomed.
Alongside its flurry of revivals, Sega continues to output regular entries into theLike a DragonandSonicfranchises and isseemingly working on what it calls a “Super Game,“which job listings describe as a “large-scale, open-world, mass multiplayer game.” It’s certainly a good time to be a Sega fan.
