From the comments:
-I don’t understand the bulk of the article makes it sound like you can’t use old Sega games. Then at the end you say “It is, however, able to take old cartridges and is priced at 39.95.” which sounds like you can.
Which is it?
Posted by Justin, USA
-the 39.95 refers to a console already on the market and not the one in the pictures. Sorry if that confuses. We wanted to point out that this isn’t the first device of its kind out there.
Posted by stuartmiles, United Kingdom
Looks like a half-assed attempt to get back into the console market. This thing is bound to fail.
This isn’t a true Sega console; it’s just a cheap Genesis clone using hardware from expired patents. Sega only licensed the use of its games.
It’s like the RetroDuo, but it includes games.
Why don’t they just make a deal with that dude who made a portable Dreamcast? That was one classy hand-held.
WILL IT HAVE NBA JAM!!! XD
Anyways, this is that wii knock off that was posted in another thread, right?
So… Will it have Saturn games?
I have some Sega ‘Plug n Play’ consoles at home. They are like tiny little immitation Genesis/Megadrive with games built in. My favourite is the Sensible Soccer one (also includes Cannon Fodder and Megalomania), which obviously must have been some joint venture with Sensible Software (or whoever holds the rights to their games these days).
There’s also a sonic one with Ghouls and Ghosts on it, and Flicky and Altered beast and a load of retro games on another. They are an incredibly impracticle way of collecting games but I just can’t resist buying em when I see them.
Oh, and I have a Super Street Fighter II one was well!
… What’s the big deal? The Zone 40 guys got the license for some Sega games, it’s just another plug and play… Was everyone flipping shit when the Atari Flashback 1 and 2 came out?
Don’t you get it? This is how Sega will bring VF5R to consoles. With this crap.
VF2 Genesis with sprites for the new characters.
makes sense don’t it? man, sega been fucking up for the longest now…
LOL, Sega.
I will like to add something. If anyone here has done some marketing or knows anything about the gaming industry, maybe you can explain to me why Sega is releasing Yakuza 3 AND Resonance of Fate as the SAME TIME as Final Fantasy XIII. Yakuza franchise has never sold a lot here either so they need all the sales they can get. But honestly who the fuck is going to buy those games when most people waited for FF13?
I know I will. Because FF13 has been said to be disappointing… Plus I was never hyped about it. Not sure about RoF though. Tried the JP demo and the battle system was kind of weird and battles took forever. Probably because idk wtf I was doing.
Release dates are usually set months?sometimes years?in advance, often before production of a title even begins. That’s probably why.
Bullshit, it is the equivalent to one of those Hong Kong produced emulation consoles before companies actually tried to produce systems for the Chinese market.
Wouldn’t it be possible to just delay it a few days or something to get more sales?
Where is my Dreamcast 2 Sega?
If they decided the release dates that far in advance, it’s likely the shipping and handling for the games is set in concrete as well.
It’s probably better this way, people can pick up both games at once, rather than buy FFXIII and get so preoccupied with it they forget to come back a few days later for Yakuza.
This would be an instant buy for me. It’s a dream of mine for Sega to make some Sega Saturn collection. I mean, damn, they’ve re-re-re-re-re-re-re-released Genesis titles for years on various platforms, but where’s the love for the Saturn, it had great games too.
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