Sega's Game Gear Micro Might Not Be The "Revolutionary" Scoop Famitsu Has Been Teasing

It better be a different, bigger scoop, because a "micro" Game Gear with a screen so tiny it's impractical for actual gameplay is a complete waste of everyone's time (and whatever investment Sega put into its development).

I would hope not. I would be pretty annoyed if that was it.

You don't say?!
I really hate it when you got folks that act like a particular game announcement is so huge and they say all this stuff to get folks hyped up for it, only for them to either ask questions or just be flat out disappointed by said announcement.
I always keep my expectations low for anything related to Sega announcements, so I'm not extremely disappointed by this, but I mean Sega come on. Who really asked for this?

I mean, if making a Game Gear variant that is copying what Nintendo did over a decade ago warranted this guy to brand it as "revolutionary", he would be either joking or completely delusional.

It's most likely not this but I suppose it's a nice warm-up to the main event, assuming of course said event lives up to his claims.

Ha ha, this isn’t revolutionary at all!

Well...duh. It's not June 4th anywhere in the world yet.

Better not be. If it is, they've officially lost their minds.

That is the best bad news I've heard all week.

The huge announcement is the dreamcast mini.

If this is the scoop, well... people should've known not to expect earth shattering news from a Famitsu column.

Sega's not making another console and they aren't releasing the Xbox in Japan.

Making another console is a very expensive endeavor they likely can't afford at this point. And while Xbox sells bad in Japan, I don't think slapping Sega's logo on it is going to do anything.

My predictions is it's either a line of mini consoles (Saturn/Dreamcast), potentially a big streaming service available for Xbox X/PS 5/Switch, or a big new Sonic game or another big IP.

I think people have to lower their expectations.

Really? Did anyone genuinely believe this is what he was talking about? Not to mention the small detail of his article coming out tomorrow and not the day of this announcement.

Not that I'm expecting anything major tomorrow, lets keep in perspective that Sega haven't said they're announcing anything

Ultra HD Dreamcast 2?
Lol just kidding will never happen.

I can smell the cloud service from here... In any case this gear micro is really not a good sign.

Like, its neat, and kinda cool looking, seems like its €50 for one(?). so around €200 for all four. I'll pick one up for fun, maybe the red.

But. Its not the 4th in Japan just yet. Leave it for another 10 hours from now.

Like, think about it, a Pi 4 costs around €80 all in. Sega COULD make a 'Dreamcast Mini' for a little bit more. Not impossible. I doubt it though.

I'd love a full 'Sega Launcher' with everything from Master System to their games now for PC, XBSX, PS5 and Possibly a verson for Switch.
We have emulation but I'd buy the Saturn games in a heart beat if they could make it super easy.

@AtlanteanMan the Japanese love shrinking things down to crazy levels of impracticableness so it will probably do well there plus some collectors will no doubt want them but as a gaming device? Nah.

The only revolution going on is the cogs doing revolutions round and round in my head trying to work out why SEGA think this is a good idea.

SEGA doesnt what Nintendoes this time.

The Game gear micro is a commemorative toy in the same spirit as the NES classic. I'm pretty confident we'll be hearing the main event later. Surely.

I mean, Nintendo were caught out by the NES because it was seen as a commemorating the NES. I don't think they realised how much fans would take it seriously. (I suppose it helped that it was playable!)

If this is the news, the 16 games spread across 4 versions stops being a celebration and more band wagon capitalisation.

I give them another chance since the Game Gear Micro was to celebrate the Game Gear's 30th anniversary in Japan. We still need to see what the 60th anniversary of Sega would be. Some rumor pointed to Sega teaming with Microsoft with the Xbox Series X and now we even got hint of it. Game Gear Micro, the word micro part may be a reference to their partnership with Microsoft if the rumor was to be believe. We will see when tomorrow hits.

God the actual "scoop" is even more depressing....

I'm sorry, but I can't see the "revolution" in this Fog Gaming...

This is so underwhelming it's almost funny. Wasn't this supposed to rival the reveal of the PS5?

Pfff.... arcade at home. Why?....
Don’t we have home consoles, switches, portables and phones for that?...

If this has a virtual front end, i think it could be really cool. if it was integrated with V.R very very cool.

Ha... Haha... Hahahahahahaha!

Oh... Dear. This is so bad, it's almost not funny. A terrible mini console with hardly any games, and you need to buy all 4 to even have half the games other mini consoles have, and a stupid cloud gaming service for arcades! Oh Sega... Well done...

Role on the next Sega Ages games announcement (if we get one at all)

I think there is more to come, just part of me hopes SEGA hasn’t sold out to Microsoft. Would rather it be a Nintendo collaboration.

@AtlanteanMan

Yeah, It didn't work for N with the GBA Micro so I can't see anyone else trying something like that.

Oh Sega, can you do anything right anymore? A Master System Mini with 40-odd games for £60 would have been a real collectors item.

I’m a big Sega fanboy and will actively tell you the Master System was a better console than the NES until I’m 6’ under but even I remember the Game Gear was trash (apart from the TV tuner).

How the smeg is cloud gaming from an Arcade supposed to work outside Japan? There’s probably about 10 Sega arcade machines in the whole of the UK.

Just read the update. Sega had a real opportunity here. They hyped this announcement up through a journalist (whom, if this information turns out to be correct, has just been exposed as a shill because comparing either this announcement or the Game Gear Micro's with the PS5 scoop or saying it will "rile up the games industry" is laughable), and then let down the fans who had dared hope that...just maybe...the company had finally listened and was about to do something truly special for the first time in roughly two decades.

That 60-year anniversary kind of has a tarnished feel to it right about now, and even the most ardent fans begin to lose faith at some point.

The Japanese gaming industry as a whole, from developers to journalists, seems woefully and willfully out of touch with the rest of the world.

@RadioHedgeFund Why the Master System when they already have the Genesis Mini with 40 games?

Regardless of the appeal of cloud arcade gaming, repurposing arcade machines for their CPU/GPU's is actually pretty inventive.

This does not seem anywhere near as interesting or revolutionary as the PS5 reveal.

So the revolutionary thing that will change gaming is........distributed computing? Like...from the 90's but for arcade machines?

Mind. Blown.

@commentlife And that is a truly glorious thing.

All that hype for nothing, well back to wishful thinking again I suppose.

Fog Gaming? Well, it looks revolutionary, but not necessarily exciting.