Do you think SEGA will return in 2010?
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The dedicated physics processing wouldn't leave it lacking, but the performance advantages still wouldn't be high enough to differentiate the quality as that of a different market, especially when even an expensive graphics card set-up like that doesn't go far beyond the upcoming consoles' graphics speed.
I dont think rendering / number of polys is going to differentiate arcade from home... instead memory and display quality...
For a high end machine a large HDTV or higher quality monitor combined with a good cabinet is likely to be the hook..
For low end the current Chihiro(?XB) board is probally good enough for a long time....
For a high end machine a large HDTV or higher quality monitor combined with a good cabinet is likely to be the hook..
For low end the current Chihiro(?XB) board is probally good enough for a long time....
Widescreen high-definition arcade monitors are assumed (720p maybe, yet 1080p would be just as reachable with arcade-level specs), and the interface -- deluxe cabinets with surround speakers, force feedback, roll&tilt, whatever -- will of course be critical selling points for the arcade experience along with it.
Arcades, though, already boast better presentation now, so another selling point which could be restored to the industry would be a large advantage in processing power. Shader performance and image quality would be important there.
Arcades, though, already boast better presentation now, so another selling point which could be restored to the industry would be a large advantage in processing power. Shader performance and image quality would be important there.
So the boss hasn't given permission to say anything, but that's okay, the named developer is sticking his name on the bottom of a disclosure of new hardware that's top secret which he isn't yet allowed to talk about... :?
DuckThor Evil
Legend
This is getting too far. I can't understand how someone can take that seriously, well I knew that being fanatic requires blind eyes, but that's one big joke.
ShootMyMonkey
Veteran
Seriously... how on Earth could Sega ever get back into the business? It's not like the old days where you could take off-the-shelf parts (thinking back to Genesis which had a normal Z80 and a normal 68k CPU)... These days, look at the huge investments MS and Sony and Nintendo have to put into their next-gen consoles. And a company like MS who can safely say things like "Yeah, we don't expect to turn a profit on the unit itself until maybe 2007 or so..." Sega Sammy is a little better financially than Sega by themselves after the fall of Dreamcast, but they're not pulling in 10 billion a year in revenue or anything like that.
Perhaps one day, they may try to compete again in the handheld area, but I don't see a next-gen console as een remotely realistic. Besides, if this whole Phoenix thing is even remotely true, then this guy basicallly got himself fired as well as pretty much blacklisted from the whole gaming industry.
Maybe Sega's planning to merge with Phantom and ultimately produce the same results...
Perhaps one day, they may try to compete again in the handheld area, but I don't see a next-gen console as een remotely realistic. Besides, if this whole Phoenix thing is even remotely true, then this guy basicallly got himself fired as well as pretty much blacklisted from the whole gaming industry.
Maybe Sega's planning to merge with Phantom and ultimately produce the same results...
Why is it that every so often people come out with total BS, shielding themselves behind their alleged involvement with SEGA?
*SegaR&D/Deadmeat come to mind*
*SegaR&D/Deadmeat come to mind*
Sega will return to the hardware business in 2050!
Ready for preorder at their online store segadirect.jp.
The Game Gear Goju!
Release date 27/11/2050, retail price 980yen (US$9-10).
Specs:
Display: 3.2 inches TFT liquid crystal
CPU: SH 4 128bit with build-in graphics engine RISC CPU (operation frequency 200MHz 360MIPS/1.4GFLOPS)
Memory: 64MB
*EDIT*
segadirect.jp/Catalog/CustomPages/CustomDetail2.aspx?File=aprilfool2005.htm
Ready for preorder at their online store segadirect.jp.
The Game Gear Goju!
Release date 27/11/2050, retail price 980yen (US$9-10).
Specs:
Display: 3.2 inches TFT liquid crystal
CPU: SH 4 128bit with build-in graphics engine RISC CPU (operation frequency 200MHz 360MIPS/1.4GFLOPS)
Memory: 64MB
*EDIT*
segadirect.jp/Catalog/CustomPages/CustomDetail2.aspx?File=aprilfool2005.htm
Pretty close.
Sega Sammy's new system is called Aurora actually. It's being handled by SI Electronics, a Sega Sammy full subsidiary, and is based on Renesas's SH3707 mobile chip. Sega Sammy are probably planning to use it in a new value line of amusement devices like arcade, pachinko, and pachislot machines, as with Atomiswave, because of its affordability as a System-On-a-Chip.
Of note, this is one of the few high clockrate MBX systems, running at 150-MHz.
Aurora System Specifications:
SuperH Full Compatibility
90-nm System-on-a-Chip SH3707
300-MHz Central Core Digital Signal Processor SH4
........2.1-GFLOPS
........540-MIPS
8-Channel PCM/ADCPM Audio
MPEG-1, -2, and -4 Video
150-MHz 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator Core with SIMD Co-Processor MBX with VGP
........Vertex Shader 1.0+ Programmability with Skinning
........Curved Surface Processing with Fractional Tesselation and Support for Differing Levels-of-Detail on Neighboring Patch Edges
........32-Bit Blending and Z-Test Precision Independent from Buffer Depth
........Supersampling Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing Standard
........1280x1024 Image Resolution Maximum
........DOT3 Per-Pixel Lighting Support
........Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support
........10M-tri/sec
........450M-750M-pix/sec Average Effective Fillrate; One Pixel Pipeline
Sega Sammy's new system is called Aurora actually. It's being handled by SI Electronics, a Sega Sammy full subsidiary, and is based on Renesas's SH3707 mobile chip. Sega Sammy are probably planning to use it in a new value line of amusement devices like arcade, pachinko, and pachislot machines, as with Atomiswave, because of its affordability as a System-On-a-Chip.
Of note, this is one of the few high clockrate MBX systems, running at 150-MHz.
Aurora System Specifications:
SuperH Full Compatibility
90-nm System-on-a-Chip SH3707
300-MHz Central Core Digital Signal Processor SH4
........2.1-GFLOPS
........540-MIPS
8-Channel PCM/ADCPM Audio
MPEG-1, -2, and -4 Video
150-MHz 2D/3D Graphics Accelerator Core with SIMD Co-Processor MBX with VGP
........Vertex Shader 1.0+ Programmability with Skinning
........Curved Surface Processing with Fractional Tesselation and Support for Differing Levels-of-Detail on Neighboring Patch Edges
........32-Bit Blending and Z-Test Precision Independent from Buffer Depth
........Supersampling Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing Standard
........1280x1024 Image Resolution Maximum
........DOT3 Per-Pixel Lighting Support
........Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support
........10M-tri/sec
........450M-750M-pix/sec Average Effective Fillrate; One Pixel Pipeline
Because...? :?
Megadrive1988
Veteran
TEXAN said:
its not going to happen. and that post about the new Sega console is complete nonsense.
DuckThor Evil
Legend
TEXAN said:
That post is couple days too late.
Can you imagine the awful quality of multiconsole released games if they had to be ported between 4 different systems.... shudder.... Sega would be better off merging with either MS or Nintendo and being exclusive to one system next gen. As much as it pains me to say it would have been a good buy for Nintendo and given them a few more 80's staples to build off of. Sega has botched Sonic since 1993, and recently botched Altered Beast and Shinobi remakes. Im still holding out hope for a decent Space Harrier or Alex Kidd revival...