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COKTOE on 27 May 2020
sethnintendo said:
Be too expensive to put out a Dreamcast mini right now. They'd have to sell it for over 100. Considering Sony struggled with PS mini one could only assume most Sega could do would be 32X.

32X? The core idea of a retro mini is that it's something people look back on fondly and would actually want to revisit. 😯



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sethnintendo on 27 May 2020
COKTOE said:
sethnintendo said:
Be too expensive to put out a Dreamcast mini right now. They'd have to sell it for over 100. Considering Sony struggled with PS mini one could only assume most Sega could do would be 32X.

32X? The core idea of a retro mini is that it's something people look back on fondly and would actually want to revisit. 😯

Can the new raspberry pi with 8 gb ram emulate Dreamcast games?  Not sure if they put new processor in there also.  I'm just thinking about costs.  You can't release a mini more than 100 and expect to sell well.  Heck I got the Genesis mini and I believe that was 80 retail when it came out right.



Slownenberg on 27 May 2020
sethnintendo said:
Be too expensive to put out a Dreamcast mini right now. They'd have to sell it for over 100. Considering Sony struggled with PS mini one could only assume most Sega could do would be 32X.

Sony struggled with PS1 mini because nobody wanted to buy it. PS1 games have mostly aged badly and as popular as Playstation is each generation they don't have anything close to the nostalgic clout that Nintendo has nor the sense of their old games being timeless classics like how a lot of Nintendo games are considered. So replicating anything close to the success of the NES and SNES classics was never gonna happen for them. I mean Sega also doesn't have either of those things for the most part outside of the original Sonic games but at the very least Dreamcast has aged a lot better than PS1 games. PS1 games, being at the crude start of the 3D era and most of them looking pretty bad even at the time compared to N64 games, I imagine are pretty hard to play now.

If Sega is gonna come out with hardware it should be a handheld that plays all their consoles. Preload it with like 15 games, sell it for $100 but then have an online store where you can download Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast games for like $1, $3, $5, $7 respectively. I don't know if that'd sell but it would be cool and I can't imagine a hardware idea for them better than that.



Pyro as Bill on 27 May 2020
Xxain said:
Otter said:
The only thing that I can think is that Sega are getting into the handheld business/teaming up with a bigger player like Samsung etc to produce a Switch like tablet/gaming device.

This could be big.... but I dont see how SEGA has a chance in that battle.

I'm still betting on SEGA bringing arcade business home.

Why Samsung and not Nintendo?

Mod the Switch Lite to look like a Game Gear and start Sega Online for $9.99/year.



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kirby007 on 27 May 2020
Ka-pi96 said:
kirby007 said:
I will bet 1000vg$ on the fact salnax is right

You mean about it being a Dreamcast Classic?

I'll take that bet!

yes

@TalonMan you sexy piece of man, wanna enforce this bet?



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Leynos on 27 May 2020

Saturn Mini
DC Mini
SEGA Arcade mini!

For real tho I do know some company was making brand new SEGA Nomads this year but that might have been delayed with the virus.



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sales2099 on 27 May 2020

I’m thinking a console that plays legacy titles from each generation.



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Chicho on 27 May 2020

Sony struggled with the PS1 classic because they didn't put a lot of effort in it. 

The Sega announcement is probably a game launcher and store The Sega Store, Everyone seems to be doing that nowadays.



DonFerrari on 27 May 2020
Slownenberg said:
sethnintendo said:
Be too expensive to put out a Dreamcast mini right now. They'd have to sell it for over 100. Considering Sony struggled with PS mini one could only assume most Sega could do would be 32X.

Sony struggled with PS1 mini because nobody wanted to buy it. PS1 games have mostly aged badly and as popular as Playstation is each generation they don't have anything close to the nostalgic clout that Nintendo has nor the sense of their old games being timeless classics like how a lot of Nintendo games are considered. So replicating anything close to the success of the NES and SNES classics was never gonna happen for them. I mean Sega also doesn't have either of those things for the most part outside of the original Sonic games but at the very least Dreamcast has aged a lot better than PS1 games. PS1 games, being at the crude start of the 3D era and most of them looking pretty bad even at the time compared to N64 games, I imagine are pretty hard to play now.

If Sega is gonna come out with hardware it should be a handheld that plays all their consoles. Preload it with like 15 games, sell it for $100 but then have an online store where you can download Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast games for like $1, $3, $5, $7 respectively. I don't know if that'd sell but it would be cool and I can't imagine a hardware idea for them better than that.

Not really, it was more due to the bad choice of games on it. The PS1 Classics certainly sell good enough to keep coming all the time and a lot of remakes of that era being made and sold with success.



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TallSilhouette on 27 May 2020

I remember years ago at a press conference they were going on about the potential of eye tracking and their research into it. I'd be surprised if they made a new console (unless it's another retro one), so maybe they're releasing an eye tracking peripheral for various systems? Long shot, but who knows.