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Sega now makes licenses Genesis emulation consoles.
fyp I'm not sure who made the Zone 40, but the Sega Zone is the same machine with some Sega games slapped on it. Right now it would be too hard for any gaming company to enter a new console. If Sony or Microsoft fall hard, we might see Sega's return. Until then, I don't see much reason to speculate.
Oh god yes I would love a new Sega console. I'm so annoyed at the moment, since I used to be a huge Sega fan, that I can't play all their games any more. I remember when Sega first went third party - I was devestated. I had to choose between a console with the Sonic titles and Phantasy Star Online, one with Virtua Fighter 4 and one with a new Panzer Dragoon game, new Jet Set Radio and Shenmue 2. I chose the one with the Sonic titles but it was so hard to miss out on some awesome Sega titles
I doubt it - SEGA ripped my heart out too many times.
Not that it is even a remote possibility.
And I hate to say that. I wish SEGA would go 2nd party for Nintendo - get the old school Japanese game makers all working together. Crazy? No it would make perfect sense.
I'm inclined to think it would hurt their pride, more than anything else to allow that to happen. But it does seem their games sell on the Wii way more than any other console, and they are releasing games on the Wii more than any other console.
SEGA has pride?
I hadnt noticed. Just look at how by taking their market share sony and microsoft crippled SEGA from a licensing revenue stand point. No wonder they look and feel gutted - they were.
Whoops, my bad, game sales are meaningless I should not be a fanboy. What difference does it make with who makes consoles?
Dreamcast? I always heard great things about it. Shenmue I heard was fantastic. As for answering the question to this thread's title, the answer would be: maybe.
The console had some (not that many though) really good games.
As a business though, Sega failed big time with the Dreamcast. No one bought it.
Actually DC was a big seller, lots of people bought it, even broke a few sales records for its brief run, DC was still selling well when Sega pulled out of the console business, well enough for software companies to support it long after manufacture, thanks largely to arcade ports, was even a DC game released last year, a racer by redspot games.
As for whether I'd buy a new Sega console, depends what kind of investment they could make, plus they'd really have to sort their games divisions out, just aren't what they used to be sadly, buying Dimps if possible that would make a big difference to me.
No, I wouldn't buy it, unless it did something amazing, like if every time I touched the power button a unicorn would magically come to my door with my favorite flavor of pizza.
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Yes, because like the Dreamcast, it would be the best console on the market when released. Reliable, a great library, and reasonably priced. What a bargain!
It did pretty well in the US, but it got pushed out of stores by the PS2 and was basically abandoned by retailers and devs as well as Sony bought up exclusive licenses. If the Dreamcast had a DVD player, I think we would be looking at a different landscape today. Unfortunately, they'd lost too much on the Saturn to put one in, so their only hope was to release early and hope they could snap up the market share necessary. Unfortunately, Sony's marketing machine was able to keep that from happening.
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No. I was never much of a Sega fan. In fact the 1st Sega system I even played, let alone owned was the Dreamcast, & I bought it for 1 reason, Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I was such a huge RE fan that when i saw that game was exclusive to the Dreamcast, I coughed up the money to buy it. Then of course a year or so later it's ported to the PS2, then a year later to the Gamecube, thus making the only reason I even bought the system meaningless cause it was on the 2 systems I played more anyway.
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Guess not, since SEGA don´t make very good games anymore. If they had released the console before Yu Suzuki left along with most top producers, I probably would.
Thing is though, peeps, when have SEGA made a console that, looking back, was actually better, and clearly better than the opposition?
Master System - great console, more going on under the hood than the NES, but it never had anything to touch Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, etc. In a Top 10 8bit games, how many are Master System games? Nintendo win.
MegaDrive - Genesis - another fine console, I owned one for many years, like the Master System, but up against the all-conquering SNES, you have to say it was 2nd best. Sonic1-2-3-K were great games, but again, Nintendo blow them away with Mario World, A Link To The Past, Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger, etc. Nintendo win.
Saturn - I think this is even more clear cut, it got crushed by the Playstation. When the history of this period is written, the Playstation will have it's own chapter, all about how it changed gaming, made it more adult, etc, etc, and the Saturn will be a footnote. Even if you like it, even if you love it, it clearly came 2nd. Sony win.
Dreamcast - Bombed in Japan, did quite well elsewhere - for a while. Doesn't have the iconic titles of the N64, didn't sell as well as the PS2 - it wasn't a bad machine, but again, it certainly didn't win any battles. Whoever won, it wasn't SEGA.
So why do it again? SEGA never quite manage to match the opposition, but they have a track record second only to Nintendo for making games people want to play, for decade after decade. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what to do - stop making consoles, make more games.
I love SEGA, but a new SEGA console would only get bought after proving itself.
Totally disagree Bowstonic on a few points, on Master System I found Golden Axe Warrior more enjoyable than Zelda 1, preffered 8bit Sonic to 8bit Mario, my own top 10 for bit gaming would be mostly Master System games, also for the most part preffered Megadrive to SNES, though my fav 16bit title of all time is Link to the Past, and fav RPG is Chrono Trigger, most of my other 16bit fav's would be megadrive titles.
Over here Master System outsold NES, and Megadrive outsold SNES so it was Nintendo in second place over here sales wise, was then 2nd to the PSone and 3rd I think with GC, wasn't until the wii it become top seller here, thanks to attracting a wider audience, but also perhaps to taking Europe more seriously at last, Nintendo never seemed to take this region seriously for a long time, so many big titles never made it here particuarly the RPG genre.
Totally disagree Bowstonic on a few points, on Master System I found Golden Axe Warrior more enjoyable than Zelda 1, preffered 8bit Sonic to 8bit Mario
You think Sonic on the Master System is a better game than, say, Super Mario Bros 3? Riiiiiiiiiiiight.
Over here Master System outsold NES, and Megadrive outsold SNES
And where would 'over here' be? Europe? I'm also in Europe. Sales figures are one thing, but it's the games, ultimately that matter, to the gamer, and the SNES simply had more good games. Oh, and worldwide sales figures are what counts for the companies survival, not regional.
I never said anything about NES or SNES sales figures, but I think it's 50mil for SNES and 30mil for Mega Drive? Over 60mil for NES, maybe 15mil Master System - Who is in second place now?
Like I say, I had a Master System, I didn't have a NES, so there is no bias here - the NES was the better console overall. And really, it's not even a hard choice, nor is it close.
After all, if you were correct, and SEGA were flying, then tell me - why no more SEGA consoles?
Sonic 8bit better than Mario 3, yes, why called having an opinion I own both and enjoyed Sonic more, that really so hard to believe? SNES had more good games may be your opinion not mine, I'm an RPG fan and couldn't play Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger and Mario RPG at the time, due to them not being available here, had to wait for them being re-released years later, did I say Sega was flying? don't think I did, wanna know why no more Sega consoles, do your research yourself, not hard to find out, a simple google search will provide a fair bit info and opinion on the matter.
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