This is a list of
video game
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franchises by
Sega
is a Japanese video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Tokyo. It produces several List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises for arcade game, arcades and video game cons ...
or a
subsidiary
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of the company. All series spanning multiple games are listed here. Games that were developed and published by third parties but released on Sega consoles are not listed here.
Among the franchises listed here are franchises now owned by
2K Sports, as those franchises were originally published by Sega until Sega sold the rights to the franchises in 2005. In the case of these games, the latest release date given for the franchise shall be that of the last game in which Sega was involved in its publishing.
Also included in the franchise list is ''
Total War
Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all (including civilian-associated) resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilises all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare ov ...
''. While this series did not begin with Sega as either a developer or a publisher, Sega did publish later games in the series. The same applies to franchises owned by Atlus which Sega acquired in 2013 or the
intellectual properties of
Technosoft acquired in 2016.
Sega is not the IP owner of all the franchises it has published, typically it is the case with the games it has made internally, but as examples ''ToeJam & Earl'' and ''
Condemned: Criminal Origins'' are owned by its respective creators.
Franchises
Acquired franchises
Licensed franchises
Note: Other publishers have continued some of these franchises.
See also
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Lists of Sega games
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List of Sega video games
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List of Sega arcade games
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List Sega mobile games
References
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Lists of video game franchises
Video game lists by company