(Apologies if this was posted already, but I searched and didn’t see anything.)
I think there’s definitely a niche market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games. Here’s hoping the rumor is true!
That Evercade looks way better, but $25 up to $50 for a cartridge is way too much. At $10 I would have bought them all (yes I know, licensing issues, etc.)
This got me very excited, but with the source being “trust me, bro,” I better not get my hopes up.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the source on Reddit is the same guy on the article… Edit: to be clear, I am not suggesting it is! Don’t take it literally.
I know… I’m in the same boat. Still though, could you imagine if they did?
I owned a Game Gear and the battery usage was insane, almost as bad as my Nomad. By then I knew to plug everything in to an outlet.
portable 3ft from the outlet.
Hey, at least you can play in your room where there was no probably TV, or in the living room if your parents were watching a show.
Remember the game gear had a tv tuner?
also buying the car adapter was a must. My dad didn’t like it though cause he smoked.
They’d probably be better off just licensing stuff to Evercade instead of doing something themselves.
OK that would be nice but how about the master system mini pretty please? I mean it’s technologically very easy and get m.2 in again… The only mini I am missing. 😁
But honest 2c. A new modern but cheap handheld with software running natively would be awesome if it’s supported long term and open enough to be easily supported.
the idea is great however i fear that the library would be filled with low quality mobile like games they need to be extra careful to not accidently make a portable intellivision amico
Only problem is that this will be overpriced af. At that point, you’re better off getting an Android handheld and emulating everything for free…
Sega got out of hardware and it’s probably the only reason they’re still around.
This shit has got greedy hubris written all over it. They’ve seen the Neo Geo revival and rubbed their little hands together thinking of charging $49.99 a go for Sonic the Hedgehog.
Nomad 2?
we need a dreamcast mini and new console, sega’s been on a roll lately
Or a dreamcast 2… Not the Xbox 😁
The steamcast. A dreamcast looking steam deck edition that comes with a new PSO in the same style as the original dreamcast era PSO. And a new shenmue-esque game.
Sega should collab with valve.
With one of their current lead IPs Yakuza\Like a Dragon working so well on Linux, they don’t even need launching titles to make it work. Just bundle SD with Ultimate Wealth and say you can kick asses offline, on the go, in a bus, on the coach. Done, you got several billions out of thin air.
Introducing the SteamDeck Pro! Now with Knuckles!
a company that’s done licensed Sega hardware before
this is interesting. where the mega drive and gg mini hardware done in house by SEGA? because unless that was another company that they could recontract, the only other companies i can think of are TecToy, who were making functional non-emulation Master Systems well into the 2000s for South America, and AtGames, who the less said about, the better.
if SEGA Forever had been a bit later, they could have just licensed SEGA-branded Anbernic Arc-Ds. it’s a shame that initiative fizzled out so quickly
See, here’s the thing. The mini mega drive was released like 4 times. I think the first one was back in the mid 2000s trying to capitolize on the plug and play craze at the time. That one might have been done by AtGames.
They had one around 2016 that was juuuuuuuust before the NES Classic craze started. That one WAS done by AtGames, and it was awful.
The other 2 I don’t know who did it. My point is, when it comes to the mini console megadrives, there are like 4 of them, and their history is a confusing convoluted mess. It’s probably like WWII. No matter how much I learn about WWII, the next time I watch a video, I learn something new. Did you know hitler potentially could have began work on atom bomb technology development as early as 1942? The only reason hitler dismissed the idea is because the scientist was jewish. I won’t repeat the quote hitler said upon being explained the concept of the atom bomb. I’d probably get reported to mods for hate speech. Lets just say that hitler was enthusiastic about the idea until he learned the lead scientist was jewish. At which point he said some very antisemetic things and refused to fund the research. He really shot himself in the foot with that one.
…just the foot for now.
mega drive mini was a specific product from 2019, and a second one came out in 2022. the AtGames machines all had their own names like the Flashback or the Gencore
“Might” doesn’t blow my skirt up because it’s the language of Trump, you useless media shitbags
Either release it or don’t. I’ll downvote any cocktease clickbait headline until you do, fuckos
This is really not the right market nor economy for gimmick videogame hardware
Depends. If it’s cheap due to not needing much storage or RAM it could work.
It looks so primitive with just a d pad and two buttons.
