Mario Bautista
As a publisher, SEGA has been pretty good when it comes to supporting mobile platforms, with the company releasing both original titles to both Android/iOS as well as bringing ports of their classics to smartphones. Unfortunately, many classic SEGA titles have now been updated with a message announcing their end-of-service.
As reported by Wario64 via BlueSky, a number of SEGA published games have been updated on the Google Play Store with a message which states: “Support for this game will be discontinued, but you can continue playing offline!”
So far, the list of games which have been updated with such a message include Sonic CD Classic; Sonic 4 Episode 2; Super Monkey Ball; Virtua Tennis and Crazy Taxi – among many others.
These titles join the list of other SEGA classics which were discontinued back in 2023 (including the likes of Ristar; Vectorman; Comix Zone and a dozen more). As of now, it appears as though pretty much all ‘SEGA Forever’ mobile ports are being delisted – with the only games yet to receive the update being Sonic 1 and 2.
Though it is possible that the delisting is due to updated APIs (which has in the past caused many games to no longer work on newer versions of Android / iOS), what is equally as likely is that SEGA is preparing for some sort of mobile-based game subscription service. We will have to wait and see, but hopefully these titles do find their way back onto mobile storefronts sooner rather than later.
KitGuru says: What do you think is going on here? Will SEGA bring these games back to mobile? If so, what do you think their plans are? Let us know down below.
Source: Multiple SEGA games are being removed from mobile stores
