Good on the MD. Keep the spirit alive :3

that's simply a thing of beauty... I remember selling mine when I was a kid to buy a PS1

I'd love to get this, especially if I could load the entire ROM library into it and with the original controllers :)

Well, I would buy for less than 400, and the SD slot for rom seem tempting enough, altough HDMI could be a plus

Yep, official sales may show X1 ahead, but for the first year when you gone to gray market only PS4 was sold (because X1 would only be very little less expensive than official sales so they wouldn't want smaller profits and bigger concorrence) so probably we have more ps4 players than x1 players in Brazil from the offset.

I don't think that it restarted its production. The Sega Master System is still available on stores in new models. I'm not sure they ever interrupted the production of the Mega Drive. This one is a new retro-looking model, aimed at collectors. It even comes in a box that's equal to the original box from the early 90s.

Tectoy has a lot of history with Sega, They were the local manufacturers of all Sega consoles, going from the SMS to the Dreamcast. They even made some games for the Master System, like Street Fighter II (really, it was a licensed port, I have this one). The SMS arrived in Brazil in 1989 and the success made Tectoy launch the Mega Drive in 1990. The Saturn and Dreamcast were released less than a year after the initial launch.

After Sega went downhill, Tectoy felt a huge impact. They almost went bankrupt. They stopped manufacturing the Dreamcast due to competition with the PS2 here. They kept doing new versions of Mega Drive and Master System and tried to create their own console, called Zeebo. It was basically a console with smartphone hardware running BREW games downloaded using a free 3G connection (it was waaaay before 4G). Even if it was significantly cheaper than a PS3 or 360, it was a big failure because it was priced similarly to the PS2, that provided better visuals and was a much better budget option.

They still manufacture the 8 and 16-bit Sega consoles and go for a low cost segment or old-school consumers. They even made a portable Genesis with a SD card slot.

TBH, it bombed pretty damn hard here. While Sega dominated before, the PS1 really crushed everything here. The N64 suffered with the price of cartridges. Also, piracy really helped the PS1, since pirated games would cost US$ 3. The PS2 kept this scenario going, while the next gen saw the 360 dominating also due to piracy. Online play impacted the use of pirated games and, in this gen, it's basically still dead.

I'm not sure if the PS4 or X1 are ahead here, since a lot of PS4s are imported and won't count towards official numbers. I feel that X1 is probably a bit ahead since it's consistently cheaper here by a decent margin, but it's pretty hard to say.

I feel sorry for Tectoy. Their partnership with Sega made them a pretty bleeding edge company. Since the Master System days, they translated a bunch of games and even created their own. Basically, Sega consoles were available day 1 here with official support, TV commercials, etc. Sega's downfall was also Tectoy's downfall. They went from premium console partners to make cheap DVD players and old consoles.

However, I'm a bit inclined to buy this new Mega Drive. I'll just wait for reviews.

I fear that it is just an ARM device emulating the real console. The latest models from Tectoy do it. If it was the REAL hardware, then it would be amazing. I'll wait for the release and see how it plays out.

I have two original HW, but they won't run on my tv the right way, so I don't mind it being ARM, if emulation works and I use original controls I'm more than happy, even without emulation I'll probably buy it (even though I have the sega classics for PS3)

Is your TV a LCD? Classic consoles never get quite right on them. The new Mega Drive will not have an HDMI port, so the best way would still use a CRT set.

Both are LED, Sure I have CRT in other places and plan on putting one when I move to an apartment that have a gaming room