Possibly some a Dreamcast revival?

Sega tried all kinds of pad designs, but intentionally opted for a pad with minimal buttons and sticks because their research showed that the mass market they hoped to break through to found pads bristling with inputs intimidating.

Wrong call Imo, the pad was not best suited to anything in particular, and wasn't ideal for folks with big hands. But at least they were trying to achieve something, even if they were unsuccessful.

Pad design and VMU capacity (a measly 128kB for the worlds first "online" console) were the only two areas where they dropped the ball on an otherwise truly remarkable device.

 

How did DC handle 3D camera movement? In an FPS with movement on left stick, how did you look around?

 

They didn't need to worry about that because nobody bought it.

 

Typically a game would have look mapped to the stick, and digital movement on the 'cross' arranged a b, x y buttons. D-pad was for menu selection.

'Southpaw' in other words.

Due to the limited buttons and spacing of the buttons (ideal as buttons, not ideal as virtual d-pad / thumb WASD) even when you got used to it the DC pad never felt and more than passable for fps.

Dualshock and Duke / Controller S were massively better for FPS, no matter how much time you spent with the DC pad.

 

No. I said nothing about having issues with using the controller. My issue is playing shooters with only one analog stick. It forced you to use the face buttons on the right side to look up and down in fps games.

 

Map WASD to the buttons and camera movement to the analog.

 

Non-dreamers.

 

If I could find a broadband adapter for less than ££€€$$STUPID I'd get mine back online and find some folks to play PSO and Quake 3 with.

Four player split screen Q3 was boss tits, even with the DCs pads.

 

Isn't that the same scheme used by the much beloved Golden Eye?

 

Am I missing something, or isn't it just an online petition with a random wishlist? seems insanely optimistic and naive to me....

 

Why? What would Sega bring? There's plenty good enough hardware to run their software, which by and large isn't that great any more as I understand it*. Nostalgic people wanting to relive the experience of past machines will fail. That time is gone. Like there's no point trying to resurrect a new Amiga personal computer because the needs of computing are satisfied, there's no point in another console that does the same as the existing options other than a sentimental attachment to a brand because it what it meant many years ago.

It reminds me of those story villains set to conquor the world/universe, like the Darleks. If they think through their intentions, what'll happen when they win and are the only surviving beings in the universe? What then? They'll sit around bored. If they realised the pointlessness of their objective, they could reevaluate and find better ways to spend their time. Likewise, Sega fans wanting to ressurect a Sega console would do well to evaluate what they liked about the old machines (the games) and pursue that experience (playing games). If the software is lacking, a new Sega machine won't solve that.

Perhaps they'd do better to try and create a software company dedicated to remaking Sega's most beloved titles?

* Okay, recent metascores are decent but no obvious killer titles to my eyes. I was remembering the 2013 Sega and high profile, poor reviews.

 

Yep.

All the stuff the made the DC unique at the time is now part of "gaming DNA" in general. Just because a console shared the same name wouldn't mean it would bring anything new.

There's always room for something new to make a niche for itself, and a carefully nurtured niche can support a gaming ecosystem that would struggle to flourish elsewhere (e.g. SNK's decade+ of technical 2D fighting games). But just because you slap "Dreamcast" on something doesn't mean that it'll be special.

 

Sega America and Sony America wanted to work together to create a CD based gaming platform in the early nineties. Came about because of their work on Mega CD.

Sega Japan said they didn't need Sony.

 

Off topic, but if the deal was anything like the famous Sony/Nintendo deal it was probably better Sega did it themselves.
Even though the Sega CD was a failure.