If Sega made a new console would you buy it?

tbz_ck said:
I gave my Dreamcast away as a prize in a kids raffle, but I kept hold of Shenmue and Shenmue 2 for sentimental value (and because the scrote that won it would wreck it within a few months.....and he did)

So I still have the original Shenmue and Shenmue 2 which I guess I should sell to a good home.

Mmmmmm how much could they fetch I wonder?

lol £50 on the bay!!!
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I'll give you a fiver for the pair! :D
 
Wiggis said:
The dreamcast was an amazing console, far ahead of its time and still stands up well against the last gen, i.e. ps2, xbox, and in fact the Wii.

It was just not supported enough. Which is a real shame!
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Just did some reading up on the Dreamcast didn't realise it was so successful on launch and that it was so short lived, it must have left a bad taste in the mouths of many owners. Seems like there is abit of history repeating itself with Sega.. The Saturn and the Dreamcast seem to of both went out in the same way, swamped by the competition, a shame really.
 
I miss my Dreamcast :(

Shenmue 1/2
Power Stone
Sonic Adventure
Toy Commander
Fighting Force
Crazy Tazi
Chu Chu Rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Lightyear_of_Star_CommandBuzz Lightyear of Star Command
Dino Crisis
etc.

So many great games, it's such a shame that the console was over shadowed by the PS2.

I got a DC instead of the PS2 due to the games and i never regretted it.

The first game i played was Shenmue and i was shocked - the graphics, the gameplay... Shenmue is the greatest game ever and i'm going to go on eBay right now and get it just so i can play it again!

WE WANT SHENMUE 3 / DREAMCAST 2!
 
Robert1986 said:
How? What could they possibly bring to the table that MS,Sony and Nintendo aren't already doing? The market is already satisfied. We don't need another console.
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Sega know how to make games, microsoft and sony know how to make money. It's why sega make so many memorable games

MW
 
Sega was great when the arcades had the best games in them. You waited for a port to be released to a sega console of your fav arcade game.

Arcades were Segas main area they impressed. Arcades are now dead and so are sega consoles.

I had a Master system, Megadrive, 32X, Saturn and a Dreamcast I bought second hand and have never turned on!
 
2StepSteve said:
Just did some reading up on the Dreamcast didn't realise it was so successful on launch and that it was so short lived, it must have left a bad taste in the mouths of many owners. Seems like there is abit of history repeating itself with Sega.. The Saturn and the Dreamcast seem to of both went out in the same way, swamped by the competition, a shame really.
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To be fair that's not really the full story on the dreamcast front - The SEGA Saturn, that was an abysmal failure. Hard to program for, the graphics engine used quad based rendering that nobody liked using and most of the time the graphics were crap, the games lineup was poor and the system was generally too expensive, the Nintendo 64 and PS1 basically walked all over it both in terms of price and games lineup.

Fast forward to 1999, and you get the SEGA dreamcast, a system with an extremely promising launch lineup and more to follow. The system had many innovative features including online games and the first widely used web browser for a games console, and some extremely interesting peripherals like the fishing rod. The thing is, SEGA made huge losses on the Saturn, people in charge of the sales of the dreamcast were basically told that they had a certain date to sell x many dreamcasts and games by to make up for the Saturn's losses or they were going to abandon ship. Later, in 2002, it's safe to say there were a lot of metaphorically wet shirts at SEGA.

It's a shame too, because the system clearly had so much life left in it.
 
orderoftheflame said:
It's nice to see some ideas bounced round, but I just can't see any thought put into yours at the moment. :) I think you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. ;)
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I haven't got time to write a full reply, however I will state that there is a problem for anyone that wants to release a console in the current market in that they will just never be able to compete technology wise with MS and Sony or with the following of the Wii.

They need to focus on a different group and have a different approach to the other 3.
 
AHarvey said:
I haven't got time to write a full reply, however I will state that there is a problem for anyone that wants to release a console in the current market in that they will just never be able to compete technology wise with MS and Sony or with the following of the Wii.

They need to focus on a different group and have a different approach to the other 3.
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I agree completely. :)

However, I don't think the rest of your design would work particularly well, opening the console up to pirates from the start isn't going to make anyone any money. :)
 
Perhaps if they released a generic console that had no disc drive, just some decent GPU hardware and a massive hard drive. Then made their whole back catelogue of console games available to to download and play, I might be interested...

These days though, as people say. Console hardware really is taken care of. Sega should just choose a platform and start releasing some cool follow ups to games like Shenmue, Jet Set Radio etc etc.

I had a Dreamcast and like many above, prob still my fav console and deffo a couple of years ahead of its time. Lots of games still hold up graphicaly even today...
 
thevet said:
No consoles used to be good but suck bigtime next to a highend pc...;)
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True in some senses. But how many of the games on console do you want to play and cant as they are console specific! There have to be a few :p

Its the same in reverse for me put it that way, PC's are still the only RTS haven, Consoles should stop trying :D
 
Lightnix said:
To be fair that's not really the full story on the dreamcast front - The SEGA Saturn, that was an abysmal failure. Hard to program for, the graphics engine used quad based rendering that nobody liked using and most of the time the graphics were crap, the games lineup was poor and the system was generally too expensive, the Nintendo 64 and PS1 basically walked all over it both in terms of price and games lineup.
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Yeah the Sega Saturn did have the potential to be a great platform, but like you mentioned, it was known to be extremely difficult to program for and it was just huge and expensive overall. It did end up being much more of a better 2D platform when compared to the PlayStation as it was originally kind of intended, but just far too late at the current time when 3D graphics was taking off.

Still, had some developers actually took time on the hardware, it could have produced some decent looking 3D games, with Shenmue in it's original state being one of the most evident.

The Saturn was also popular in Japan as well, and I would say that much of the failure for the North American and European markets could also be attributed to the incompetence of those respective branches of Sega (Sega of American & Sega of Europe). And the most annoying thing was that the same thing would repeat itself later on for the Dreamcast.
 
Maybe.... But there is hardly room for 3 consoles at any one time nevermind 4. The XBOX360 and PS3 are too far gone to be outdone by anything short of twice as powerful.

If they or anyone else managed to release a console for £350 that was much better than what we have now then I might be tempted.

I think Sega under-estimated how much the PS1 would take off, and rightly so. Up untill then Sony made TVs, VCRs and erm TVs. It would be a bit like Sanyo bringing out a console head to head with microsofts next offering and out selling them.
 
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