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George Young

Sega is willing to take risks on "highly volatile" new games, and can do so using the "stable foundation" created by its strong free-to-play revenue

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Sega's latest financial report shows that new game releases make just a third of the revenue that free-to-play games bring in, but the company says it will continue to use money earned by the latter to make "highly volatile new games."

In a recent Q&A session that was held following Sega's latest financial report, the company describes why it puts so much time and money into developing new games when free-to-play games make so much more money. The answer is that the new games actually bring in the big bucks, as long as you're willing to play the long game.

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