http://www.siliconera.com/2008/12/31/seriously-sega-whats-with-all-these-dreamcast-trademarks/
On one hand Sega has been moving forward with new franchises like Valkyria Chronicles and Sands of Destruction. On the other, well at least in the USA, Sega seems interested in their past.
In another Sega trademark search we discovered ChuChu Rocket was re-registered by Sega USA on December 22, 2008. Does this mean Sega is secretly working on reviving ChuChu Rocket as an online enabled Xbox Live Arcade game? Hopefully yes, but not necessarily.
This year Sega has re-registered lots names for Dreamcast titles like Sonic Shuffle, Cosmic Smash, Jet Grind Radio, and Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram. Like we mentioned before these are probably protective trademarks, but it is strange to see Sega spend money, and registering trademarks costs quite a bit of money, to protect so many game names. Interestingly, in the case of ChuChu Rocket the previous trademark isn’t even expired. So why would Sega spend all of this money to protect names of games that aren’t even their hot properties? Is Sega going to pull a Nintendo with a “New Play Control” series of their own?
虽然世嘉一直对自己的次时代新作有很大期待,如战场女武神,另一方面,世嘉看来也对自己过去的经典十分有兴趣。
最近SEGAUSA重新注册了噗卟噗卟火箭的商标在2008年12月28日,是否暗示是否要将此游戏品牌复活在XBLA上?希望如此,但也不一定。
这一年来,世嘉登记了以往DC时代的很多游戏品牌,如SONIC/桑巴/JGR等等,就像我们以前提过的,这些都是受保护的商标,很难理解为什么SEGA在原有商标没有过期的情况下会再花费金钱来保护这么多游戏名称,(不好理解,厂商保护自己的商标MS很正常吧。。。。。。)种种迹像表明SEGA可能会在WII或XBLA/PSN上复活一系列的DC经典游戏
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