Sega to Release New Dreamcast Bundle? 71
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?"
Triumphant Return? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Triumphant Return? (Score:2)
The dreamcast was like 5 years ago? Nostalgia indeed. More like the last gasping breath of a tiny but vocal community dying to hang on despite any hope or sense of reason. I mean, the dreamcast was a fine console and died an early death, but for pete's sake, let it go. They must not have gotten the memo yet: SEGA KILLE
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$83 USD? (Score:2)
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Is this sort of language considered acceptable? This is Slashdot not a Ku Klux Klan meeting.
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Re:$83 USD? (Score:2)
8. coon link send redefine 10 up, 13 down
This word is often used as a racist term, but it does lave a legitimate meaning.
An animal. See raccoon
So yes, it does have some not so nice things associated with it. But in the context, I'd say the poster meant raccoon.
BTW, your panties are all bunched up.
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There you go. Now you can get a broadband adapter on ebay too.
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That guy showed himself to be more racist and ill-informed by pointing it out than you ever did by simply using an old colloquial expression. Shame on him - he's the one who should be backpedalling and excusing himself, unless he was making a really lame attempt at being funny.
Re:$83 USD? (Score:2)
If Nintendo re-released the new NES (the one that doesn't break) would you pay $100 for it? Even if your cell phone has better tech in it, at this point? I might.
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The market is obviously already collapsed. Nobody wants the things, and they're selling on the cheap on eBay. I doubt many people will buy the console for so high above their market value.
US Market (Score:5, Funny)
ZombieCast! (Score:5, Funny)
Would love to see this. (Score:5, Interesting)
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?
Re:Would love to see this. (Score:3, Informative)
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I'm thinking more of a situation where you develeop an sdk and a hardware platform, and license each out, but not to one vendor but multiple, thus there's not need to lock everything down. Make a commodity gaming platform so to speak.
Just a thought anyway. Marketing does become an issue. So you would need investment capital just for that.
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Also, 3DO tried the "commodity gaming platform" thing and they failed miserably. With multiple companies selling essentially the same hardware that run the same software, there's nothing differentiating the different platforms, and anyone who breaks the spec to differentiate themselves could wind up incompatible with the software for the other platforms. You may as well just develop
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And this [wikipedia.org] has also been attempted [wikipedia.org].
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> any motivation to NOT do a port to your platform?
Who's going to market/distribute it? There's a difference between releasing something to the market and competing with the big boys. I mean, you can pick up a Cybiko device for something like £5 and start coding for that, if you like. Or just develop for Linux. No-one's stopping you from writing Amiga games. But you'd need the relative security of
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Any other questions?
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It happened in the 90s, and it was called 3D0. Unfortunately, it was crap.
Wrong currency conversion (Score:3, Interesting)
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 [amazon.com]. 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.
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Pity really, my current Dreamcast is comming down with the standard "power supply is a POS and resetting all the time" problem, I need to get a new one...
Re:Wrong currency conversion (Score:1)
'You have to take the modem out and remove the top half of the DC's case, the board you want is the one to the left of the rom drive. unplug the little cable to the top left and unscrew the board now carefully unclip and lift the power supply board off the six pins near the bottom left of the DC which are the problem clean them with something like a bit of WD40 or just a gental wipe with a cotton bud or something be carefull not to mess up the serfice or leave a
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Um, the Dreamcast can run Linux too? Seriously, the DC is great for the homebrew and modding community. You don't have to mod the system, just burn a CD-R bootloader (or self-booting CDR) and play your game. There are even some emulators available for it.
Handheld? (Score:3, Insightful)
With all the players who have tried in the portable market the last couple years (Zodiac, GamePark, Gizmodo, Sony, Nokia) it wouldn't suprise me if Sega decided to throw their hat into the ring, and handheld DreamCast might just suceed where most of the rest have failed.
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Now what would be sweet (Score:2, Interesting)
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thank you so much
full circle (Score:4, Funny)
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me too (Score:4, Interesting)
My Samba Da Amigo morracas are lonely since my dreamcast drive started to give up the ghost...
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Someone at Sega... (Score:4, Funny)
Outsell the Xbox 360 (Score:4, Interesting)
Re-release the broadband adaptor.. (Score:2)
Heck, do some hardware work, redesign the controller, have some centralized servers for games, and you would be a step ahead of the Phantom!
You know... (Score:5, Interesting)
What if the Revolution played Dreamcast games?
(How's that for outlandish rumor-mongering?)
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In general though, I already know it won't happen because
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It's trivially easy to detect recordable media in hardware.
2. Some Dreamcast games were written for WinCE, which means emulation or having to shell out $$$ for a license
Hardly any games used WinCE. Regardless, it's not like the Dreamcast has WinCE embedded so licensing is not an issue. The GD-ROM is a ready to run game, built with WinCE or not.
Then that would be... (Score:1)
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Congratulations: you helped kill the Dreamcast. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have this Slashdot submission to begin with.
Maybe this could work (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
$83? Too much! (Score:2, Informative)
Guarded opinion (Score:2, Insightful)
The original Dreamcast was a commendable effort to keep Sega in the game console market, and to this day it still holds a cult following of gamers. It featured new technology and could have been an excellent platform for gamers. However, the introduction fo the XBox and the Nintento Gamecube more or less shut the door on Sega.
I'm curious not to what Sega can produce; instead, I'm curious to see if they can manage to outma
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If they re-release it at a cheap price fanboys will buy one and people who arn't too keen on consoles because they're so expensive could pick up a dreamcast dirt cheap and a handful of second hand games for less then it takes for the kids to goto the cinema.
This is a pretty spiffy idea.. I'd like
Still have 2 (Score:1)