What's the point in hoping for another Sega Console?

[Anonymus Fluhre]

A new Sega console would go the way of the last Atari system they were going to release where the best selling point of it was using real wood panels. It would end up as another SJW/ Diversity mess.

 

[sasazuka]

I am still hoping a third-party company releases a licensed retro console that can play all Sega optical disk formats (CD/32XCD/Saturn/Dreamcast) for the simple reason that the hardware doesn't last forever and emulators on PC are usually pretty-good-but-still-not-perfect.

 

[aFairlyOddFaggot]

does sega even have enough money to mass produce a system that can run triple A titles? because the best i can imagine sega doing right now is an ouya with a sega genesis emulator built into it.

 

[Lucky Wildcard]

They don't have the necessary money to make it possible now. When someone told blazehedgehog about it, this was the response.

Absolutely ridiculous. Sega is very likely in worse shape now than they were when they canceled the Dreamcast. It’s not like they went on to be mega-successful.

And what would Sega even stand to gain? There’s no room for them right now. The market usually supports two heavyweights: a Coke and a Pepsi. In the 90′s, it was Nintendo (Coke) and Sega (Pepsi), and now it’s Sony (Coke) and Microsoft (Pepsi).

The only way Nintendo’s factored in to this market is because Nintendo’s always sort of detached from the main battle. They’re off trying weird, new, different ideas, and deliberately banking on cheaper, less powerful hardware. They’re running a different race, and it’s mostly a race with themselves.

Sega doesn’t fit in to any of that. I don’t think they could outdo Nintendo at being weird, and they CERTAINLY couldn’t keep up with Sony or Microsoft.

And then there’s the PC. The one trojan horse nobody wants to admit exists. Nintendo ignores it, Sony and Microsoft have a lot of their so-called “exclusives” show up there, and it houses the biggest contiguous library of games out of any system in the world. Nobody can or wants to compete with the PC.

And if metrics are to be believed, the PC is where a lot of Sega’s best business is done, at least sometimes. Football Manager and Total War, PC-exclusive titles, were cited as some of Sega’s biggest sellers across the entire company. And Sega is pushing for more and more of their games to see PC releases – we got Sonic Lost World and Valkyria Chronicles, for example. There were rumors of Sonic Colors coming to PC at some point as well, and Takashi Iizuka has said he wouldn’t be opposed to a PC port of Sonic Unleashed.

Throwing a Dreamcast 2 in to this kind of world would be a disaster. Sega would have to work some serious magic to even BARELY have a chance. They have not yet proven that they aren’t still totally clumsy in every single respect.

I learned many, many, many years ago, that if anyone out there says Sega’s secretly working on the Dreamcast 2, you always ignore them, because it just doesn’t make sense.

 

[MrTroll]

That video is pretty persuasive. I look forward to seeing what happens in 2014. Fingers crossed!

 

[Nazi vegeta]

because microsoft is cancer.

but at this point it wont ever happen. Sega just cant sell their stuff. They would just lose money.

 

[Dunsparce]

The only Sega console to ever outsell the Wii U(which was considered Nintendo's biggest failure of a home console) in world-wide sales was the Genesis/Mega Drive.

I don't think that Sega trying to get back into consoles is the smartest idea.

 

[Tookie]

It would be a complete novelty or doomed to failure. The console market can't really seem to support more than three major consoles in any given generation. Sony, MS, or Nintendo would have to completely implode or they would have to make a niche console that would only sell a couple million units in a best-case scenario.

 

[Nisse Hult]

I once had the idea that Sega (or some other actor with hardware know-how) could've done something like a better version of the Xperia Play - a smartphone with top-of-the-line specs, an integrated gamepad (with glorious Saturn six-button layout), some custom GNU/Linux OS (Sailfish?), and (crucially) HDMI output, so you could game at home and on the go.

Now, of course, the Switch has completely swallowed that potential niche.