SEGA Dreamcast (Mini?)

I loved my Dreamcast, but why? Gaming has moved far beyond it, and there are probably ROMs for anything still worth playing.

What they need to do is make a tiny, cheap OG xbox player so I can play Rallysport Challenge 2 and Ninja Gaiden again...

Or just make the Xbox one BC with the original Xbox ;)
 
Dreamcast was the only console I ever bought at a midnight launch, I picked it up after an evening shift at Homebase. I think I got Power Stone, Sega Rally 2 and Sonic Adventures with it.

The Dreamcast sold terribly in the end so I don't think there is any nostalgia to cash in on outside of the hardcore Sega fans..

A better idea would be to make one of those cheap, licensed, multigame handhelds, like the Blaze/ATGames Megadrive/Genesis ones.

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I don't know how feasible the emulation is on an ARM chip these days but the Dreamcast is 1998 tech.

The console detailed in the OP would be quite expensive due to a limited build run. Start up costs for molds, tooling and production time are especially costly for non mass produced products. Even the team behind the doomed RETRO console realised this.
It was the first console I bought with my own money. I saved for a year, and got 10 games at launch... It was the best day...
 
It was the first console I bought with my own money. I saved for a year, and got 10 games at launch... It was the best day...

Ten launch games?

Were there even 10 games at launch worth playing?

You bought Blue Stinger, didn't you?
 
Got Sonic Adventure, Virtua Fighter 3, Toy Commander and SEGA Rally 2 with mine.
 
Give the typing of the dead and ill think about it. Or make it so I can download Saturn games as well. I need to play dragon force 2. The frost one was awesome, but the second one never made it out of Japan. Fighter Megamix would be sweet too.
 
A built to order console like mentioned in the OP Sega CAN do.

And lose money on.

It would have to be priced at a premium to be profitable and it will appeal to no-one. It isn't simply the material cost of building the thing, it is staffing, sub-contracting, logistics, servers for the digital store, bandwidth, IT maintenance, software development, customer support etc. The machine that is specified will be surprisingly expensive even at small quantities to break even on.

The very people this is aimed at are in this very thread and are big Dreamcast fans, even we are saying it's a terrible idea.
 
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Not everyone in this thread.
Plus you don't know if they would make money or not.Your ASSumptions are strong

My assumptions are strong because I work in materials and logistics in OEM and aftermarket services for a huge multi-industry conglomerate and it is surprising how many hidden costs there are in a manufacture process with aftermarket support not seen by the end user or consumer.

Red flags in this product are numerous, I think it is actually over specced and contains, to coin a corporate phrase, 'non-value added costs' in the hard drive and 'GD ROM' (which would be a DVD or CD ROM drive in reality). It is a premium product to serve a niche of a niche, while being managed by a company that is dying on its arse and has been out of the console hardware business for years.

It contains lots of parallels with the RETRO indie console that died a undignified death on Indie-go-go following a disastrous campaign.

Even 1995 Saturn era Sega would think twice about embarking on such a venture.

Are you Ben Plato?
 
Sega/Atlus still make money and we don't even know if another company like say Amazon wouldn't fund such a project and its not like Amazon hasn't ventured that direction in the past..... http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-selling-new-dreamcast-systems/

Those were undoubtedly stock remnants bought in bulk from somewhere, rather than brand new machines assembled to the original spec.

Again, I think the best way to cash in on Dreamcast nostalgia would be to license to a Blaze or AT games to build a cheap and cheerful 20 games in 1 handheld.

The other option would be simply re-issue Dreamcast classics on platforms that already exist with large user bases - Xbox One, PS4, Google play, iOS or create a large compilation like...

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instead of this crap...

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What I really want to see is Nintendo buy Sega and revitalize all the great dormant Sega IP.

I think that would be epic and fitting given the history between the two companies.

I also think Nintendo are the only company in the world now that could make a truly great Sonic game.
 
What I really want to see is Nintendo buy Sega and revitalize all the great dormant Sega IP.

I think that would be epic and fitting given the history between the two companies.

I also think Nintendo are the only company in the world now that could make a truly great Sonic game.

Didn't Nintendo have a big hand in the crappy Sonic Lost World?
 
Ah well both versions sucked.

Sonic Generations is the way to go with Sonic.
 
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Ah well both versions sucked.

Sonic Generations is the way to go with Sonic.

I couldn't get past the 30FPS of Sonic Generations, especially the side scrolling parts. It didn't feel responsive enough or look as smooth as Sonic should.
 
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Never owned a Sega system in my life, and my time with the consoles is very limited. That said if this happened and the price is right I wouldn't mind getting one. Otherwise maybe they should just do a Rare Replay type deal and release it multiplatform.

Edit: missed page 2... Nintendo buying Sega for exclusives would be cool as well.
 
http://www.tweaktown.com/image.php?...2_sega-dreamcast-2-pc-console-hybrid_full.jpg

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A new teaser site hints that SEGA may be developing a Dreamcast 2, and it may feature PC-grade hardware in a console form factor similar to Valve's Steam Machines.




SEGA has a dream. It wants to be back on top of the games industry, but to do that, it'll have to resurrect the console that nearly killed the company in the late '90s: the SEGA Dreamcast. Although the Dreamcast was a beloved fan-favorite and helped usher in a new age of gaming, the system was a commercial failure. Fans have been clamoring for a Dreamcast successor for quite some time, but the once-mighty Japanese games-maker hasn't made a move--that is until now. SEGA has opened up an official division called SEGA Interactive that will sell hardware, indicating that the Dreamcast 2 is indeed a reality. A new campaign called Project Dream points to the development of a Dreamcast 2, and the official website has a countdown timer that could lead to an official reveal. As for the Dreamcast 2's specs, the Project Dream page speculates that the system will be a PC/games console hybrid, and that it'll make use of x86 architecture while sporting a customized NVIDIA GTX 740 GPU, an Intel i5 4460 at 3.4GHz, and 8GB of DDR3 RAM to boot.
 
Stay out Sega. You are not wanted. This terrible industry is better off without you and thinking you can rely upon the goodwill of former Dreamcast owners is bad judgement.

Signed,

This former Dreamcast owner
 
Yeah it is. Case in point Sega. Released new hardware in the Dreamcast and quickly abandoned it. 15 years later they might come back for more and rumors suggest a kickstarter of all things. Studios come and go. People get fired. Games go down in epic flames. The console warrior mentality comes from those wars. Sega coming back is pretty much thinking Atari could come back. No......you are not needed. All it will result in is you, Sega, burning your customers again.