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| patrickmeansly:
sin2beta got me thinking about this one based on his passion for sega. I personally fell in love with Dreamcast when I played Shen Mue, and the resident evil games with the VMU display for health. I love the 8 bit Sega Master System, and of course we all love the Genesis. Based on everyones personally experience with consoles and games, if Sega came out with a console by the end of 2013, would you buy it????? |
| patrickmeansly:
And does anyone have their own version or know what truly happened to the Dreamcast in America??? I heard in Japan, they still were coming out with games up until 2006 or '07. In europe, I heard they were still coming out 2 years after we stop getting them. So What happened?? I have heard rumors of the console was cheap and broke too easily, when people figured out you can burn the games, they lost money on game sells, I heard they could not be in competition with the ps2, I also read an article from an x employee of Sega, that said they were fine but the CEO at that time, wanted to get out of consoles, because it was cheaper to just make the games. Too many rumors. It was an excellent system. Anyone know the truth??? |
| sin2beta:
From what I know of the CEO making the decision is that Peter Moore got the decision. From wikipedia: --- Quote ---Moore has been proud of the success of the Dreamcast game console and the satisfaction that owners still express today; including fans of the Shenmue game franchise, which Moore describes as the most vocal fan base during his career at Sega. Moore disclosed to GamingSteve.com that at a security checkpoint at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, a TSA security agent said "I don't need to see your passport. You're the asshole that gave away Shenmue to Xbox."[5] However, Moore has admitted to being responsible for the discontinuation of the Dreamcast. He said: "We had a tremendous 18 months. Dreamcast was on fire - we really thought that we could do it. But then we had a target from Japan that said we had to make x hundreds of millions of dollars by the holiday season and shift x millions of units of hardware, otherwise we just couldn't sustain the business. So on January 31st 2001 we said Sega is leaving hardware. We were selling 50,000 units a day, then 60,000, then 100,000, but it was just not going to be enough to get the critical mass to take on the launch of PS2. Somehow I got to make that call, not the Japanese. I had to fire a lot of people; it was not a pleasant day."[6] --- End quote --- Anyways, would I buy a new SEGA console. I would. But I honestly would not expect it to be good. SEGA only exists in name only. All their superstars are now gone. I feel the last thing SEGA did as SEGA was SegaGaGa. They had a few holdover games come out on the next gen. But SEGA is gone. If they made another system it would be their version of the Atari Jaguar. Now, I will do a complete 180, and say I would love for SEGA to make a new console. I just don't want a traditional console. What I would like is a dreamcast that can download classic games. But most importantly, I would like a dreamcast dev kit made open and a SegaNet storefront. Basically, I want SEGA to sell dreamcasts with an SDK and allow the homebrew scene to go wild. Think XBLA with no restrictions. The dreamcast has a very healthy homebrew scene. SEGA should encourage this and set up a store front. I honestly hope this is what the SEGA Spectrum is. However, I'm sure it is not. |
| burningdoom:
Hell yeah I would buy one. But the chances of that actually happening are slim to none. |
| soera:
I agree with Sin2beta. While I would love to see one, it would be destined to fail in the general market. Every Sega fan would buy one, most gaming fans would buy one ... but general gamers and casual players/parents of kids would probably not bother. Hell, the Wii U isnt even getting any love from most of the last mentioned set of buyers and its Nintendo made (although not very well advertised). |
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