The Dreamcast 2?

[fdurso224]

Hi guys,

 

I keep hearing about a Dreamcast 2 is coming out. Is this true? All I hear & read are rumors about it.

 

Would you get one?

 

 

Anthony...

[Rex Dart]

Well, it'd have to exist first. It doesn't. It's a fake, a lie, a ruse... you savvy?

[108 Stars]

As Rex said, it's just a reoccuring rumor. Every year someone makes a hoax or finds some bogus news.

 

It's not gonna happen.

 

Sega already ran out of money competing with one giant. Now in addition to Sony Microsoft is in the market too. I'd be surprised if Nintendo doesn't quit the hardware business too in a few years tbh.

 

Sega is a midget of a company compared to Sony and MS, and business hasn't exactly been too good. 2013 was better, but in 2012 they even had to close all European offices but a small one in the UK. Most of their once popular brands they have successfully buried. Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, Wonder Boy, Ecco, Space Harrier... most of their best IPs have either not seen games so longe people forgot them, or they have seen too many average incarnations for people to still care.

 

In short: Sega is struggling to stay relevant when it comes to just games. A new console would be one more headache.

 

...and if they did, why call it Dreamcast 2? They never followed with a similar name before.

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

This rumor returns every few years since the Dreamcasts demise fulled even more lately by well done renderings in videos. There are so many reasons why this will never happen but the Sega fanboys jump at any crumb of hope lol. If it or anything close to it does ever happen you can be sure you will hear about it from reliable sources but don't hold your breath..............

Edited December 10, 2013 by OldSchoolRetroGamer

[godslabrat]

It's like standing on the docks in NYC, waiting for the Titanic to arrive.

[Greg2600]

There's likely a day a few years into the future when it will become possible technologically and cost-wise to sell a Dreamcast clone like the Genesis ones we've seen over the last several years. That's about it.

[+Curious Sofa]

I think it'll be a hot topic for ages because it was the last Sega console, and was completely awesome to boot. It's an easy thing for people to get others' emotions all worked up about. Myself included for brief moments. But no, it'll never ever happen.

 

I would love for the game world to change so radically that Sega and Nintendo would go head to head again, and have really fun games and true game consoles. I would absolutely kill for that to happen and for motion control to die (apart from for light-gun games), same for machines that are supposed to not only play games but let you skype with your pals in east India while making you toast, reprogramming your damned garage door, filing your taxes, live-streaming your latest bowel movement, selling you music that no one anywhere wants to hear and movies that are available for $1 via redbox for $9 via your console...while charging you $50 or more per year for ... well nothing; free games that are worth $0 that you would never, ever pay for on your own (or if you would they're only yours for a week or two then gone)... just so you can say you have a Gold Plus Ultra Buttcrack Supa Special membership.

 

I really, really hate modern gaming. And fantasize about a Dreamcast 2 steamrolling through the market and really creative games that aren't Call of Duty 8 and Madden 400 coming out every couple of weeks. But we're a niche segment. Those of us who bought Cannon Spike on release day. Those of us who thought Dynamite Cop was good fun. Those of us who still play Typing of the Dead and Power Stone regularly. We didn't have the numbers to make the DC a success, and we don't have the numbers to turn back the tide of these new idiotic camera dvr blu-ray oh and they play games too machines. So dream of Dreamcast 2, but don't ever hope for it.

[goldenegg]

Let's just pretend for a second that Sega were to release a new console. It's never going to happen, but just pretend for a second. How would it honestly be any different than the systems we already have?

 

Game consoles are measured by their library. Specifically, it comes down to the exclusive titles available on the system. There's no reason to think that a Sega branded system would tempt developers to develop exclusive content that would separate the system from the rest. Sega could develop exclusives for the system, but I doubt many gamers would buy the system just for those titles.

 

There are currently 3 primary current gen systems, which is more than enough for developers to focus on. Throwing yet another console in the mix would be absolutely pointless.

[+wood_jl]

Yeah, I'll take a Dreamcast 2, right after I get my Jaguar 2!!!!!

Just the cost of entering the market with the *original* Xbox cost Microsoft $4 BILLION. The "new console coming rumours" should consider this, and save a lot of wasted discussion.

 

http://www.joystiq.com/2005/09/26/forbes-xbox-lost-microsoft-4-billion-and-counting/

[RegularGuyGamer]

The Dreamcast 2 is code name for the WiiU

[sega_SHARK]

Sega is not making a new console. Go play your Dreamcast.

[carlsson]

As for Dreamcast clone, isn't that what Treamcast already is or did I misunderstand something?

 

For that matter, there was a reasonably strong rumour a couple of years ago about Samsung entering the console business with a design of their own, rather than licensed produced Nintendo units like I seem to recall them doing before. So far, we haven't seen any Samsung video game on par with the 360 and PS3, rather they seem to focus more on the smartphone and tablet segments, which are good market for casual games, perhaps even more than so.

 

Apart from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and pure PC/Mac gaming, there is also the new Steam console coming out. It might be more like a fixed spec PC, but anyhow it will make the market even more crowded. And if it wasn't enough, various "indie" consoles like OUYA and other Android-based devices fill in whatever remaining gaps there are.

Edited December 10, 2013 by carlsson

[Austin]

As for Dreamcast clone, isn't that what Treamcast already is or did I misunderstand something?

 

No, Treamcasts are modified existing Dreamcast systems.

[Chuck D. Head]

Internet "personality" Keith Apicary is constantly going around spewing his schtick, which seems to be a borderline mentally-disabled gamer and constantly talking about the Dreamcast 2; I am sure that is part of it.

[CatPix]

Aaaah, that good old Segafan fapping dream of a Sega comeback.

It never get old.

 

I like how everytime the subjet come, people go like "Sega WAS different".

I would like to see when did Sega made something different. (the 32X is different, yeah, but that's not something many fans want to point out, heh?)

From the beginning, Sega followed the tracks of Big N. Which was also following good recipes too (Nintendo's harsh system of "not making games for other systems" can be considered like a level-up of Atari's exclusivity on home console ports of arcade title they bough) and learning from other's mistakes (unleashed 3rd party games making).

 

Sega's first home console is released the same day as the Famicom. Hmmm. back in 1983 in Japan, computer were the big thing. Sega also sold the SC-3000, a computerized version of the SG-1000. Yeah...

CD grows out as an "affordable" media? Let's make an add-on! First on that? Nope, the PC-Engine did it first!

3D is the big growing thing, let's add 3D capabilities to out next console!

Online/LAN games are growing? Let's add a modem to our console! (OK, I'm harsh on that one. The Dreamcast is a well-done and quite innovative console on many points.)

 

Games from the 16 bits era were sometime said to be more mature than on the Super Nintendo. Well I'm not sure Killer Instinct is that much child-friendly, not much more than Doom. And overall... It's not THE big point. Why would I refuse to play an excellent, well made adventure game just because it's aimed mainly for 12 years old kids? "adult" games are good, and I don't mean cheap sex PC games but games like Silent Hill 2 or Catherine. Or something as contemplative as Shadow of the Colossus.

But it doesn't make Yoshi's Island less good.

 

Anyway, it's not like Big N invented everything. I'm not a Nintendophile. I like most game systems, I like games, no matter what brand they have on their cart or CD.

 

But I always can't help but smile whenever I see that "Dreamcast 2 would revive the good old way of playing games" or "Sega's comeback would change everything". Because Sega never offered something THAT different from Nintendo. And because Sega today doesn't offer much in the game range too. Come on, name me 10 games made by Sega in the last 5 years that were even moderately succesfull (and by made by Sega, I mean programed by Sega, not games programed by studios bough recently by Sega or games published by Sega)?

 

At least when Sega and Nintendo entered the video game console market, they had solid titles to offer. Today Nintendo live up on 20 years old names and already resolved 3 times on updating an old game to sell a console (Star Fox 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time on the 3DS, Zelda Wind Waker for the Wii U) (And unlike the Zelda collection Gamecube stuff, those games are standalone, killer ap wannabe games, not just ports for pleasing fans) and Sega.. Living up on arcade titles?