Sega to Release New Dreamcast Bundle?

Craig writes "Is Sega planning to release a new bundle for the supposed commercially dead Dreamcast Console? According to Many Dreamcast sites it will be bundled with a new commercial game and released sometime in February. Engadget has commentary and speculation." From the Engadget site: "... German gaming site Gamefront.de is claiming they're going to be re-releasing the frickin' Dreamcast bundled with Radilgy and some limited edition telephone card or something. But our wish come true from the Ghost of Hackable Consoles Past will probably be Japan-only though, distributed through Sega Direct for ¥10,000 (about $83 US) -- still, could this be the triumphant return of Sega hardware, even if only just nostalgia-gear?"

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Would love to see this.

[numbski]

I'd love to see the Dreamcast make a comeback. Sure, the hardware is last-gen (or soon to be anyway), but there was still some excellent work done for the system.

This also bring up a side-note I've been wondering about for a few weeks now. Microsoft got away with bundling a pc as a game console, sold at a loss, and provided an sdk (which I've never seen) to developers, and developers had to pay for the rights to publish for the console. Seriously speaking, what kinds of barriers are there to entry for an open source sdk, and license out manufacturing rights, ie, instead of a single console manufacturer and huge licensing entity, develop a hardware platform design, license out the design, and leave the sdk open? Is it really impossible to compete? If you're giving away the SDK to developers, do they have any motivation to NOT do a port to your platform?

Wrong currency conversion

[Anonymous Coward]

EDIT: Thanks to Yakumo for correcting the misinformation regarding the price. Gamefront.de lists it at 10.000 Yen, but it's 15.800 Yen (approx. 112 Euro/ $133)! It's still a nice price in my opinion.

Can someone tell me if this is really worth it? For that price I could buy a Gamecube or a GameBoy. For less than $20 more, I could get PS2. Granted, these are not bundles, but these systems have more games available. The PS2 can run linux. What sets the Dreamcast apart from it?

This isn't meant to sound as a troll; I've simply never looked into the Dreamcast as a possible system and would like to know if it's really worth it.

Now what would be sweet

[cyberbob2010]

would be if they could get someone to setup servers for the dreamcast's online games I used to come home after high school and play Phantasy Star Online and UT every day.

me too

[enrico_suave]

I'd definitely buy one if there was a domestic re-release.

My Samba Da Amigo morracas are lonely since my dreamcast drive started to give up the ghost...

e.

Outsell the Xbox 360

[wickedj]

What would be hilarious is if this bundle (if true) outsells the Xbox 360 in Japan. That said, I would love for the Dreamcast to come back. It was a highly underrated system. Many of the games were top notch and the graphics are still decent, almost Gamecube quality. One of my favorite games is available for that system, Ikaruga (it's now available on GC).

You know...

[Guppy06]

Miyamoto is still dropping hints that there's one more new big feature for the Revolution, and Sega execs have been quoted as saying that they're looking into the Revolution playing SMS/Genesis games as well as NES/SNES/N64.

What if the Revolution played Dreamcast games?

(How's that for outlandish rumor-mongering?)

Maybe this could work

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

Sell the Dreamcast with 20 of its top games hard coded in it for about $20 and put it in a smaller redesigned system that makes it easier to connect to a home theater without being a permanent fixture.

Wait a minute, isn't that what they are doing with all those Atari/Activision retro joysticks that run on a couple of AA bateries and embed 20 classic games in a joystick that simply plugs into your aux video?

. . . Yeah, I don't see the point either.