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curl-6 8 hours ago

If hypothetically speaking, Sega had been able to stay in the console race, what do you think their 7th gen followup to the Dreamcast would have been like, and why?



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Leynos 8 hours ago

It would have been a variant of this, the SEGA Lindbergh. Virtua Fighter 5. Afterburner Climax. Many more 360 era ports were from this arcade machines. Much like how Dreamcast was a cutdown NAOMI. 7th gen SEGA console be a version of this arcade machine.  Personall I always saw 360 as the true Dreamcast 2. First Xbox as DC 1.5. Controller to online. Looks. All stem from DC. 

https://segaretro.org/Sega_Lindbergh

Last edited by Leynos - 8 hours ago

Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

JackHandy 8 hours ago

I am a huge Genesis/Dreamcast fan but... sad to say, I think it might have been something a little more digital than we would have cared for. I mean, this is the company that tried to do Game Pass via cable TV in the mid 90's, for crying out loud. They pushed forward, sometimes too far forward. So my guess is we might not have been too keen on whatever it was.

Or maybe we would have.

It's fun to think about.



00Xander00 4 hours ago

Wow. I've never thought about this.

How would it be? Magical :D

It's hard to imagine but I the more I think about it the more I imagine a lot of niche Japanese games that would have been able to exist and find a Platform that wouldn't have been available otherwise. I wonder if they would have went the power route of the PS3/360 or a innovative yet cost effective route like the Wii (or maybe a very interesting middle ground). Possibly a Wii U style of device as that would have been a follow-up from the Dreamcast memory-screened controller.

and Sonic Adventure 3 (instead of Sonic 06 lol).



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Leynos 3 hours ago
00Xander00 said:

Wow. I've never thought about this.

How would it be? Magical :D

It's hard to imagine but I the more I think about it the more I imagine a lot of niche Japanese games that would have been able to exist and find a Platform that wouldn't have been available otherwise. I wonder if they would have went the power route of the PS3/360 or a innovative yet cost effective route like the Wii (or maybe a very interesting middle ground). Possibly a Wii U style of device as that would have been a follow-up from the Dreamcast memory-screened controller.

and Sonic Adventure 3 (instead of Sonic 06 lol).

Kinda doubt they expand on VMU past DC. VMU was thought up in the middle of the Tomagatchi craze. When DC released in japan in 1998 that was still hot. 1999 release in the US. It had cooled down I believe. However DC did link with Neo Geo Pocket similar to what Gamecube did with GBA. So if they released a handheld in 2003/2004 might have expanded link abilities. A controller with a screen in 2005? Don't think that was a viable cost effective option. Wasn't really even in 2012 with Wii U. 

Last edited by Leynos - 3 hours ago

Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

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Spindel 2 hours ago

Sega does what Nintendon’t…

BLAST PROCESSING 2.0!