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Sega Announces Dreamcast Successor

Posted by timothy on from the oooh-a-hard-drive dept.

aardwolf64 writes: "msnbc.com has a story (taken from Inside.com) about the successor to Sega's DreamCast. Aparently it won't play actual DreamCast discs, but will instead download them to an internal hard drive through a digital cable connection. According to the article: 'Wallace said that the box, called the Games Gateway, can store up to 60 games at a time, and will play any and all of the 350 or so games developed for the Dreamcast platform. The box will ship next year, though Wallace declined to speculate whether it would ship in the U.S. or U.K. first. The deal is mutually non-exclusive; the box itself has been a year in development'"

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  1. Next Generation Sega Channel is more like it... by Thag · · Score: 5

    This doesn't seem to be the next generation of Dreamcast, but rather just a way for Sega to repackage Dreamcast into a new product that they can get some more money out of.

    If it's the next generation anything, it's the next generation Sega Channel.

    Jon

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  2. I think John Byrd of SEGA of America said it best: by drdink · · Score: 3
    Sigh. The rumor mill has been working overtime on us recently, and because Sega (and every other technology company for that matter) doesn't comment on rumors, the rumors have gotten worse and not better. Everyone wants to seem like they're the first one "in the know" about the videogame industry and about Sega specifically, even at the expense of being wrong if necessary.

    Dear 7334 kIdZ: we are not giving up on the Dreamcast. We are going to make a whole bunch of Dreamcast games this year. We are not going to stop selling the Dreamcast for the foreseeable future. We are thinking up a bunch of new hardware designs around the SH-4 and PVR2 chipset. We have a prototype set-top box that looks pretty cool.

    My specific advice: unless you've heard it directly from us -- meaning from www.sega.com -- take it with a small salt shaker.

    John Byrd
    Sega of America Dreamcast

    ^^ As seen on port-dreamcast@netbsd.org ^^

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  3. Slashdot, please get the story right... by Jayde+Stargunner · · Score: 5

    For the sake of accuracy, this set-top box is, and never was a successor to the Dreamcast. It is stupid to assume that it is.

    Sega made a statement last week that they would be packaging DC technology and licencing it to third-parties. This is not a replacement, nor a replacement to the DC. In fact Sega also stated that they were looking into making a DC PCI-card for PC's... May as well say that Taco's PC is the DC successor as well.

    -Jayde

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  4. Marketing (dept.) strikes again by Kris_J · · Score: 5

    Since I live in Perth, Australia where cable (as in pay TV) -based internet connections are non-existent and (A)DSL is only available in the CBD an a couple of select suburbs, I have to add a big "whatever" to this discussion. This product is impossible for me to use. Anyway, I don't care -- I'm having fun buying secondhand SNES carts from swapmeets and pawnbrokers. There are enough games out there already that I've never tried such that if all game production were to cease today I'd be dead before I ran out of fun.

  5. Hmm...a good idea? by proxima · · Score: 5

    Sounds like Sega is limiting its market share by requiring people:

    1. Have cable in their residence

    2. Care to pay money for a digital cable connection

    This restricts both the tech-less (antenna, analog cable), and the tech-savvy (digital satellite reciever). To me, it sounds like a great feature and option, but even with a digital cable line myself I'm not sure I'd want to be restricted to loading new games only at home..especially if it restricted me from taking it to another place (i.e. college dorm, apartment, etc.) without a cable connection.

    But it's still a year away from release, so perhaps they'll change their minds and find more reasonable distribution methods.

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  6. PACE MICRO NOT SEGA MS-NBC RUMOUR? by Kyusaku+Natsume · · Score: 3

    Looks like Timothy don't even bottered to read the story. And from a imparcial news source like MS-NBC, with a misleading header... go figure.

    What have the slashdot crew against Sega, it's that difficult to check first the story, then post? /. is beccoming "rumours for nerds, rumours that matters" (driving a company out of bussines by rumours is not a small thing, and matters to all their workers, who would buy a product that is already "discontinued" and "unsupported" by the manufacturer? WHO?)

    Still, I expect (wish) that Sega will be on the HW market more time than the people think.

    On a side note, IIRC in Japan Pioneer built Saturn comptible hardware in 1997 or 1998 so this isn't a new move for Sega.

    sigh.

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