(Apologies if this was posted already, but I searched and didn’t see anything.)
I think there’s definitely a niche market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games. Here’s hoping the rumor is true!
This is really not the right market nor economy for gimmick videogame hardware
Depends. If it’s cheap due to not needing much storage or RAM it could work.
market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games
Its called an android emulator.
Those who have the money would rather go for a real retro console
Those who don’t probably do not have the money to buy all those cartridges with only 1 game on them, and will just use their phone or pick up a cheap android tablet
And for the retro-modern niche there are emulator handhelds for very cheap
So, basically the target audience is people who:
- don’t have the money to buy a real retro console + games
- have a problem with emulating/ripping the games themselves
- want to pay full price for retro games (even if you take the price for steam, they are going to cost more due to the hardware
- don’t want any QoL like with emulator handhelds
If it doesn’t eat at least 25 batteries an hour I’m not interested.
Portable modular nuclear reactor sold separately.
Only problem is that this will be overpriced af. At that point, you’re better off getting an Android handheld and emulating everything for free…
Oh snap! I hope it burns through AA’s!
I owned a Game Gear and the battery usage was insane, almost as bad as my Nomad. By then I knew to plug everything in to an outlet.
portable 3ft from the outlet.
Hey, at least you can play in your room where there was no probably TV, or in the living room if your parents were watching a show.
Remember the game gear had a tv tuner?
Haha, oh yeah
also buying the car adapter was a must. My dad didn’t like it though cause he smoked.
Sega got out of hardware and it’s probably the only reason they’re still around.
This shit has got greedy hubris written all over it. They’ve seen the Neo Geo revival and rubbed their little hands together thinking of charging $49.99 a go for Sonic the Hedgehog.
I saved up and bought a Game Gear as a kid. But Mortal Kombat II eventually angered me so much one day that I smacked the front of the GG after losing to Johnny Cage. Screen went dark. No longer turned on. I mailed it to Sega for repair, and they sent it back saying nothing was wrong. Somehow during shipping, whatever I knocked loose got knocked back into working order. Magic console.
we need a dreamcast mini and new console, sega’s been on a roll lately
The steamcast. A dreamcast looking steam deck edition that comes with a new PSO in the same style as the original dreamcast era PSO. And a new shenmue-esque game.
Or a dreamcast 2… Not the Xbox 😁
Just bring back original PSO.
PSO or a modern turn based phantasy star would be awesome
As long as my FOmarl still has the bouncy hat.
This got me very excited, but with the source being “trust me, bro,” I better not get my hopes up.
I know… I’m in the same boat. Still though, could you imagine if they did?
Wouldn’t surprise me if the source on Reddit is the same guy on the article… Edit: to be clear, I am not suggesting it is! Don’t take it literally.
Sega should collab with valve.
Introducing the SteamDeck Pro! Now with Knuckles!
With one of their current lead IPs Yakuza\Like a Dragon working so well on Linux, they don’t even need launching titles to make it work. Just bundle SD with Ultimate Wealth and say you can kick asses offline, on the go, in a bus, on the coach. Done, you got several billions out of thin air.
They’d probably be better off just licensing stuff to Evercade instead of doing something themselves.
OK that would be nice but how about the master system mini pretty please? I mean it’s technologically very easy and get m.2 in again… The only mini I am missing. 😁
But honest 2c. A new modern but cheap handheld with software running natively would be awesome if it’s supported long term and open enough to be easily supported.
a company that’s done licensed Sega hardware before
this is interesting. where the mega drive and gg mini hardware done in house by SEGA? because unless that was another company that they could recontract, the only other companies i can think of are TecToy, who were making functional non-emulation Master Systems well into the 2000s for South America, and AtGames, who the less said about, the better.
if SEGA Forever had been a bit later, they could have just licensed SEGA-branded Anbernic Arc-Ds. it’s a shame that initiative fizzled out so quickly
See, here’s the thing. The mini mega drive was released like 4 times. I think the first one was back in the mid 2000s trying to capitolize on the plug and play craze at the time. That one might have been done by AtGames.
They had one around 2016 that was juuuuuuuust before the NES Classic craze started. That one WAS done by AtGames, and it was awful.
The other 2 I don’t know who did it. My point is, when it comes to the mini console megadrives, there are like 4 of them, and their history is a confusing convoluted mess. It’s probably like WWII. No matter how much I learn about WWII, the next time I watch a video, I learn something new. Did you know hitler potentially could have began work on atom bomb technology development as early as 1942? The only reason hitler dismissed the idea is because the scientist was jewish. I won’t repeat the quote hitler said upon being explained the concept of the atom bomb. I’d probably get reported to mods for hate speech. Lets just say that hitler was enthusiastic about the idea until he learned the lead scientist was jewish. At which point he said some very antisemetic things and refused to fund the research. He really shot himself in the foot with that one.
…just the foot for now.
mega drive mini was a specific product from 2019, and a second one came out in 2022. the AtGames machines all had their own names like the Flashback or the Gencore
