SEGA: will they ever make another console?

[craptakular]

Just curious, are there any romours about a new sega console in the new future? or are they soley looking at making Sonic rehashes and publishing Football Manager?

 

[Memphis]

I suspect it would be way too expensive to try to get back into the hardware market, especially if they wanted to compete at the top.

They're making enough money as a software publisher now.

 

[craptakular]

I suspect it would be way too expensive to try to get back into the hardware market, especially if they wanted to compete at the top.

They're making enough money as a software publisher now.

Yeh, could they not diversify like Nintendo did with the Wii, take a left field aproach or something.

I miss all the daft addons and crazyness lol. Modern consoles are to sensible

 

[fini]

SEGA: will they ever make another console?

No

 

[Teaf]

I doubt they'll ever go back into the hardware market.

 

[Jericho.u.k]

I doubt it .....a pity as i owned both a saturn and a dreamcast and the dreamcast was very underrated in my opinion

 

[Phatjayunoi]

Simple answer is No!

They are doing well as a publisher/developer already and to re-enter the hardware market again will probably bankrupt them, which they eventually could have been during the days of the Dreamcast. Why do you think the main parent company is now Sega Sammy. They are a shadow of their former glory days. Not to mention the marketing department, especially in for the American and Europe branches are absolute crap and one of their own downfalls.

 

[marcus_667]

funny though they renewed the patent on the dreamcast though

 

[deadite66]

i wouldn't want them to, enough market fragmentation as it is.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Hell no.

 

[wannabedamned]

I want them to.

I dont see why its a definate no. I mean do you really think the console market is only going to consist of the existing players? Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft?

Is there no room for new companies? or returning companies?

If thats the state of things, and we're only going to see rehash after rehash from the same 3 companies for the next 1000 years. That's a real shame, And kinda sad

 

[craptakular]

Sega was genius though, they came up with crazy things like the MegaCD and the handheld consoles.

At least Nintendo made a killing by thinking outside the box, now MS and Sony are copying the wii controller...

Who is left to create new ideas? Atleast Sega were good at that! The dreamcast was awesome too...

 

[d_brennen]

I'm only hoping for Shenmue 3 to be done as intended

 

[craptakular]

TBH I would also like to see Amiga, Atari and Amstrad make computers/gaming consoles again as well.

 

[wannabedamned]

A VMU, Thats what we need, A new VMU on our pads. That was genius and added extra function to games.

 

[Phatjayunoi]

A VMU, Thats what we need, A new VMU on our pads. That was genius and added extra function to games.

And it's a good thing that battery technology today is a lot better than it was back then.

 

[Vonhelmet]

I want them to.

I dont see why its a definate no. I mean do you really think the console market is only going to consist of the existing players? Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft?

Is there no room for new companies? or returning companies?

If thats the state of things, and we're only going to see rehash after rehash from the same 3 companies for the next 1000 years. That's a real shame, And kinda sad

Nintendo have been in the game longer than anyone, and will weather just about any storm. That takes care of existing players. Sony and Microsoft can afford huge losses on their console divisions because of massively profitable divisions elsewhere. New players would have to be someone of that ilk - Yamaha or Hyundai or someone with a very wide remit of engineering that could afford to try something new.

It certainly won't happen until the recession is done with...

 

[Lightnix]

And it's a good thing that battery technology today is a lot better than it was back then.

Very much so. 'Okay, I've got to get a bus, time to play me some Chao adventure!.. Alright, it ran out, good thing I bulk ordered these watch batteries!'

 

[cheets64]

Doubt it, Nintendo have the family market sewn up and MS and Sony have the other markets, it would be crazy to start a new console and to get new developers on board, plus the most of the stuff Sega make these days its absolute garbage, they have been out of it too long to make a console that can compete with the players,.

 

[.:MBK:.]

The market these days is a lot more expensive than it once was thanks to MS and Sony. Competing with a traditional console would bankrupt whats left of Sega, and tbh, if Nintendo didnt come up with such a radical...and successful approach, they would probably have ended up the way of Sega aswell

In Sega's prime, console companies made consoles, and published games, they were not divisions of much larger companies who could not only afford horrendous budgets that the likes of sega and nintendo could only dream of. They could also afford to deal with any short fall the console might make should they need to make it more price competitive, without skimping on the specifications (much). As such the traditional console firms either needed to become very innovative, some damned good marketing, and no doubt a smattering of luck (nintendo), or get out and try and salvage whats left of the business (sega).


As for the OP, no i doubt sega would ever come back to hardware, its just too different a market now. Should they ever become a large enough player on the software publishing front, they may push for more diverse and original titles over endless rehashes of brands they have managed to cling on to.