Project Dream (Dreamcast 2) Still Lives. Prototype Video Coming Soon

"The prototype fan project to create a Dreamcast 2, also known as Project Dream, has been having a turbulent development cycle. Various rumors circled that there were internal struggles and that nothing was materializing. Today, however, the team have returned with some great news."

[Eidolon]

Why are they calling it Dreamcast 2, I remember it was just going to play DC games in HD, but emulated.

[FaSCoRP]

Don't click on the "Full Story" it is just a paragraph about a re tweet

[Fullmetalevolust]

I genuinely smile when I read that this project is still doing well, I have high hopes for it.
edit: looks like some major players in the group quit. Not sure what's going on but awaits video.

[ABizzel1]

I wouldn't hold out for anything if I were you. It's unlikely hardware will ever be made especially considering the current console hardware situation of 2 of the major players doing only decent and the other struggling. Adding a 4th player means it or one of the others is going to flat out crumble and more than likely it'll be the DC2 since Nintendo has it's first party to carry it, Xbox has a strong NA fanbase, and PS is killing it right now.

Also this is supposed to be an emulator system for the Dreamcast and at most get 3rd party support of current-gen games. But the hardware choices were absolutely awful early on, but with Pascal and Polaris launching there's a good deal of power that can be had for the console, and with Maxwell soon to be dropping around 30% or more as they're phased out they can easily scoop up some old parts from the 750 ti and up, and build a solid console as well.

They should simply build a cheap $299 entry PC-console with a FX 6300 and a 750 ti (for TDP) or R7 260 (for performance), run a custom Android / Linux OS, so emulators can run on it, and it's still just powerful enough to run current 3rd party games on mid-settings with solid fps (pretty much parity to PS4).

It's either that or build a super cheap APU system for $199 which would work as well simply because of the entry price.

[KakashiHotake]

I still find it sad that the original Dreamcast failed. People just didn't give it a chance and it had a lot of good games on it. If only Sega didn't waste so much time and money on all the other failed projects, who knows how far the Dreamcast could have went.

[link2Dpast]

Easily most underrated system ever. Way ahead of its time in every way. 3 words....phantasy star online (drops mic)

[Raiden]

I miss the DC the one of the most fun consoles I ever had, I played PSO and Power stone to death, in fact I still play PSO BB on my laptop, I only found out that the game was still alive online, and it looks great for a 15yr old game, oh man CRAZY taxi, the clear some air, SONY KILLED the DREAMCAST with one lie, the PS2 is so powerful Saddam Hussain can launch weapon of mass destruction, that how powerful the emotion engine is, and all developer listen and ate SONY'S lies, as yet we have not seen this power of the PS2 ever, RIP DREAMCAST, SONY always lies, even now the PS4 is more powerful than the Xbox 1, true, but not 50% more powerful or we would see it, more lies, I may get flamed for saying this but history is proof of my statement, developers are also to be blamed for not giving the console a chance, but then again SONY did pay those developers to have the software on there console first. I like how people forget history of what happened.

[game4funz]

I wish I had never let the dream cast go... Wish I could still turn it on and play skies of Arcadia. Or powerstone

[link2Dpast]

It hard to explain but Dreamcast is so magical. From the start up , to the sound of the disk being read, it's so nostalgic. It's all business but I just could never grasp Dreamcast being a failure. It had so much going for it but piracy played a huge part, yes I know sony had dvd but the games Dreamcast had were so unique. I'll say it over and over Nintendo and Sega made each other better, there were the pb&j . Now it's all bullcrap , 2 systems that literally have the same games but I won't go into that now

[Dabigkahuna76]

Microsoft got a big surprise at E3

[link2Dpast]

More 3rd party games, I can't wait ;)

[MKKhanzo]

What the... I go into their "official" page and it says it was shut down?

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Dreamcast 2 was the OG Xbox.

[DigitalRaptor]

The Dreamcast 2 never existed and most fans feel the same way.

If you think that the handful of one-time Sega games that Peter Moore transferred from the sinking ship to get a foot in the corporate door at Microsoft, makes the Xbox a successor to the Dreamcast, then I guess I could say PS4 is the Dreamcast 3 then. I remember when you were claiming Xbox being the best and most likely place for Shenmue III. I thought Wii U would be a good place, if only for the awesome potential of its gamepad integration. How things change. Phil didn't care enough to secure that bounty for its gamers.

[DigitalRaptor]

More bad journalism:

It has been shut down: https://twitter.com/Project...

[AdmGenAladeen]

According to the projectdream website it is officially shut down. Honestly it sounded like bs from the beginning. You can't make something like that without receiving permission from Sega and I doubt they had that. This whole saga has been carried along by fans dreams and the idiots who were "supposedly" designing it giving out false promises without any sort of proof. I remember when my brother let me borrow his so I could play Skies of Arcadia. Good times.