It's been over ten years since Sega's beautiful white baby came into this world, kicking off a revolution still being felt today. Ahead of its time in many ways, Dreamcast ran against Sony's DVD-enabled PlayStation 2 and came off second best, signalling Sega's departure from the hardware market. The gamers at KINECTaku are finally starting to come to terms with the fact there will be no Dreamcast 2, and bizarrely it's Kinect helping them along by continuing the spirit of the console.
SEGA has made a mistake on one of their PDF forms which has inadvertently disclosed full sales numbers of some of the company’s key software releases.
Don't forget they've put a lot of these on gamepass and ps plus so you can add that money to it. Good to see Sega going strong
Happy for sega ! I was expecting some kind of showing of their newer games at game fest but maybe they’re keeling it for TGS? Crazy taxi and jet set needs a trailer or something soon !!!
Release Phantasy Star 5, Shining force 4 or Skies of Arcadia 2 and look at the number after.
Today, Sega announced its financial results for the full fiscal year that started in April 2024 and ended in March 2025.
I like what's on their legacy IP list, but there are still many more franchises they could revive. Shining Force and Chakan come to mind.
"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
as a fan of the dreamcast,i would have to say that kinect is not turning the 360 into dreamcast 2.not even close.it extends the life of 360 beyond 5 years.nothing more.sega is just diversifying by releasing something for kinect.
microsoft has made great strides in connecting gamers over a network.i'll give them that.but i counter this argument in that microsoft has canceled MMO after MMO.so no PSO here.and sega didn't make you PAY to PLAY.yakuza,the spiritual successor to shenmue,is only on ps3.virtual tennis(the most fun break out sports title at the time because world series baseball sucked when it released)is being given a hot innovative option of 3D on ps3.
i loved the developers at sega.but they are not doing it this gen when it comes to games and pushing envelopes.never mind that i won't ever see a streets of rage 4,skies of arcadia 2 or shenmue3 or a properly made sequel of anything,sega just doesn't have hit anymore.and they keep rehashing my beloved VF series.
now if platinum games made something for kinect that was innovative like their glory days at clover studios,then maybe.or if yuji naka cared like he used to for sonic.or if the great yu suzuki made a space harrier game for it.or if yuzo koshiro made some mad beats for a game releasing on it.
no,360 is no dreamcast 2.and kinect,as interesting as it is with hacks,has not shown any games or announced any games of any significance to real gamers who want challenge over shallow gameplay for the masses.
um well didn't sega go out of business because of the dream cast i don't see kinect doing that to the xbox
As avid SEGA fan no one should compare X360 to a revolutionary console as DC.
Microsoft has a lot of money so they wont drop support of the 360. Once the console starts to dip in sales they will release a new box.
Kinect turns 360 into Wii2 but minus the quality Nintendo devs.Ms have about 2 or 3 good devs and no exceptional ones.
Luckily,they have enough cash to just throw money around until something sticks.It's nothing like the Dreamcast.