April 2020

According to Twitter account SEGAbits, Sega was set to be announced as a Xbox Game Studios at at E3, so could there be any truth to this? According to this alleged leaked image, on June 14th, Sega was set to announce that they were acquired by Xbox. Of course with Covid-19 and the cancelled E3, if this announcement was true, then it is more than likely it is delayed or moved to a different date. Microsoft did announce that they would do an all digital event, but with the future being so uncertain that too may be rescinded soon as it is hard to imagine them announcing hard release dates for games.

While Sega joining Xbox could be a stretch for some, with Yakuza joining Xbox and Xbox Game Pass in recent months, it is not that far fetched. Besides the Yakuza franchise, Sega could bring exclusives to Xbox like Sonic, who just had a huge success with the recent movie, and possibly a port of Shenmue 3. Shenmue 3 was a Sony/PC exclusive mainly because Sony helped back the funding for it, but if Microsoft owns the studio a port could be coming to Xbox as well as a Shenmue 4. A few years ago a Shenmue 1 and 2 port was put on both Microsoft and Sony’s consoles, leading speculation of a Shenmue 3 port to Xbox even more enticing.

Either way we won’t know for sure until Microsoft does show their hand for their E3 presentation and Xbox Series X console later this year.

Coronavirus has people pretty much all over the world staying home and social distancing. Now there are those that do not understand that you shouldn’t be seeing your friends or going to the store for no reason during this time and those people put everyone at risk, but unfortunately it is something you have to deal with because you cant just lock people in their own homes, even if it is for their, and everyone else’s own good.

Personally the whole thing has not changed my life that much. I have worked from home for years now and while we should probably hit up a grocery store soon, besides that I wouldn’t go out besides to Home Depot to pick up supplies for a project here and there, but other than that I never really leave the house anyway. The biggest change personally is if I order something on Amazon I need to wait a bit longer for it, which is no big deal if it means that people can and will be safer.

Living in a resort area, when the weather does get warm, the tourists and out of staters will come and during a pandemic there is no exception, to the point that police are now pulling over out of state license plates and telling them to go home, the governor has closed the boardwalks and beaches, and stores are only letting 20% occupancy at max in at a time. In a week the number of cases here has tripled, so it is no wonder they are trying to curve it as much as possible.

Unfortunately I don’t see this getting better until it gets much worse, possibly all states having to shut down hardcore, which they still aren’t doing. There are those that still think it is a hoax or whatever and those people are thankfully the minority, but how much evidence does someone need? It is 2020 you would think that all the research, all the stories, all the pain and deaths so clearly laid out in front of them would be enough to convince them, but I guess if you don’t want to believe something is true then no amount of facts and evidence is going to convince them otherwise.

I am just hoping that by September they have a handle on things and they can get the virus under control.

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