This illegal thing got me thinking...

What if Sega themselves released an updated Genesis, would you be for it? Have roms of all Sega published games in the system, and a dock for catridges. Modernize the Genesis by making it smaller, have wireless controllers, and HDMi support. Sell it for $50. Call it the Renaissance or something like that.

I think it'd be pretty cool, not sure how much it would cost Sega, and how much it'd have to sell for them to make a profit.

It will certainly sell more than the OUYA

....that isn't an illegal product; if it were, it wouldn't be sold on Amazon. It's very much like the Atari Flashback plug n play games, also from the same company (At Games)

Poor Ouya. At least its small userbase is dedicated.

http://ouyaforum.com/

I would definitely buy one. There were so many games I couldn't play on that console and emulators is not the same...

Your avatar makes it seem like you're yelling at me.

What's the legality behind it? Wouldn't they have to get permission for the use of roms? I was under the impression that Nintendo has to do so for their Virtual Console, which is basically a rom dump, so I assumed the same applied here.

first of all... lol!

I've heard that both the emulation of the 80 preloaded games and Genesis carts you plug into the system aren't perfect - the games themselves don't quite run up-to-speed. That being said, it is indeed an officially licensed product - Sega approved it.

Hell I'd buy it, Genesis is one of the best systems ever.

If it had all the games that I liked, and preferably even more good games that I haven't tried, then yes. So the collection would have to be huge, and the price of the console would have to be low. Wireless controllers would have to be a given, as well as HDMI.

100+ games for $50 with the above included, yes I would buy it.

If they released a "classic" console where I had to pay for the games, the library would have to include pretty much all of their consoles, even the Dreamcast. And the games would have to be filthy cheap, not VC prices.

I would not pay more than $1 for a Mega Drive or Master System game. And not pay more than $5 for a Saturn or Dreamcast game.

The library then would also have to include pretty much all of their games, for all consoles. It could also include "new" Sega games that had been released after Dreamcast. And those prices could be "normal".

I wish Sega had a better realized than Nintendo's VC with an account system. I would go wild and pay up to triple what the guy above me would in case of high quality, fun, well known retro games. Even more for the not so well known ones if you decide to bring them.