Dear SEGA,



Over the years you've compiled a commendable back catalog of some of the highest quality -- if not the highest quality -- software this industry has ever seen. You have a strong history of serving PC gamers going all the way back to the mid 1990's with Windows releases of classic software such as Panzer Dragoon & Virtua Fighter among others, as well as your prominent online gaming service for the PC platform, Heat.net.

In recent years SEGA has continued to have strong PC support with releases from franchises like Company of Heroes by Relic Entertainment, Total War by The Creative Assembly and Football Manager by Sports Interactive but now, PC gamers petition that you consider releasing more games, particularly from your Japanese division, on the PC platform.

In accordance with this request we suggest the following ports:



Bayonetta (PlatinumGames) - Recently Konami and PlatinumGames appear to have found success in their PC port of the critically acclaimed Metal Gear Rising title, which debuted on the first day of the Steam sale in second place just behind the PC platinum seller, DayZ. We believe Bayonetta may be a solid fit for porting on the basis that it does share its engine with Metal Gear Rising, this may assist in developing the port and we believe that Metal Gear Rising serves as an example of the platform being able to support 3D action games of this type.



Vanquish (PlatinumGames) - Quite possibly the best third person shooter of all-time and sharing its engine with Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising, Vanquish is the title of these three initial suggestions that may best fit the PC platform due to the platform's historical strength in the shooter genre.



Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown (SEGA AM2) - PC lacks a modern 3D fighter but has proven itself able to support the 3D fighting genre's counterpart, the 2D fighter e.g.:  continued releases in the genre from Capcom and the success of Skullgirls crowd funding campaign that predominantly relied upon PC gamers. On top of this we are aware that Final Showdown runs on the RingEdge board, which itself is powered by Windows Embedded Standard 2009.



We selected these initial suggestions on three factors; 1. Do we feel the PC market can support this game, 2. is the port likely to be economical? 3. Do we feel we are asking for too much at once?

While we understand that no porting effort will be particularly easy or necessarily affordable we attempted to select titles that would be easier/cheaper to port versus ones that would be more cost prohibitive. Note that this does not mean we do not wish to see other titles (I stress the words initial and suggestions that this petition is riddled with), it is with great regret that under our adopted metric we cannot include other, very popular, requests such as Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza, Catherine and Persona as well as less popular requests like 7th Dragon, SEGA Racing Classic or Hatsune Miku among many others.

We're requesting that you port these initial three so that we can demonstrate that the PC market will support this content, allowing you to then make a better determination as to which games will best suit your PC audience going forward as well as maybe bringing renewed consideration to those other titles if this effort proves successful.



Thank you for your time,

Sincerely PC Gamers.