Post by Verde on Aug 24, 2004 16:38:21 GMT -5
Real Games Players (link) have come up with quite a few reasons to think that a new Sega console could be on its way.
Lastly, the UK Resistance (link) might be onto something:
Clue 1- Yuji Naka's desire for a propriety platform
Clue 2- Sega's merger with Sammy
Clue 3- Hajime Satomi's desire for rapid expansion and willingness to invest Pachinko and Pachislot income into new businesses.
Clue 4- Sega's choice to choose PVR for their next arcade board, thus meaning it'll be custom and not based on any future next gen console when they could of easily adopted Chihiro 2 based on Xenon which is released mere months after Sega plans on debuting it's new arcade system into the arcades of Japan.
Clue 5- The size of the new Holding company to emerge on the 1st of October cannot be underestimated. Sega-Sammy on 2003-2004 fiscal year alone is only second to Nintendo and by May of next year will have supplanted the Kyoto company and by 2006 to 2007 when the re-organisation takes place the company is estimated to be bringing in a Billion dollars of net profits annually. On pure profit count alone that's not only bigger than Nintendo and EA, but also Sony.
Clue 6- The holding back of key franchises and general emptiness in the company's release schedules for the last year including the current one
Clue 7- Isn't kind of weird that Sega hyped up it's pre-e3 conference this year beyond belief, only for them to end up delivering the Matrix online?
Well I don't see it that way, I think what really happened was Sega was ready to unveil not only it's next gen console but also Yu Suzuki's Shenmue III. Why didn't it happen? Well according to some- Shenmue's trademark had expired and it was only in June when Sega got it back thus leaving Sega to think up of something else for the announcement, that something else being the Matrix online.
Clue 8- If you check Imagination Technologies upcoming year statements, when they refer to their next GPU they say that it targets arcades(sega's next board), PC desk top and also Consoles, I've heard many IMGtec guys in magazines over the last few months in PC mags saying the same thing, a few months ago one of them actually said- "this would be ideal for a next generation console" when refering to it's upcoming "high end" graphics technology.
The truth of the matter is this- we all know that both Nintendo and Microsoft have partnered with Ati to supply the GPU's for their future machines, as both companies have already announced this. So if Nintendo has Ati, Microsoft has ATi and Sony has it's own, then what machine are they "targeting" with their upcoming GPU? who else is left on the field? infinium and the Phantom 2?
Highly unlikely.
Just like you had Naomi and Dreamcast based on it, the chances for a Naomi3(or whatever it'll be called) and a home system based of it is seeming more and more likely as time goes on.
Clue 9 - Since going 3rd party Sega hasn't made a penny from it's home division, this third party publishing thing hasn't brought in one dollar, not one.
Clue 10 - The return of UK resistance. I was actually quite shocked that these guys made a comeback, they hadn't updated since when sega axed the DC back in 2001. So why would they decide to return? Maybe they know something we don't.
Clue 11 - The benefits of a proprietry format-
- You don't have to pay any royalties. With game development costs rising the last thing you want to be doing is giving a split of the sales of the next "Virtua Fighter", "Sonic" to the hardware manufacturers.
- Unity of Sega fans - All sega fans would be under one roof again, and as Yuji Naka pointed out at E3 2003 "Sega was more idolised back then"
Clue 12 - Alot of people say that Sega doesn't have the sort of money to R&D a new console as it takes hundreds of millions of dollars and that's true, it does take alot of money but what I have to say to them is this- The fact that Sega has publicly announced that the Naomi3 is in developement, the fact that it'll be revealed very soon and the fact that in 6 months time it'll be sitting in arcades around the world is evidence that the "Research and Developement" for a next generation videogames playing machine has been done. All they'd have to do now is design a casing for the home consumer and stick a DVD drive on and you'd have yourself a next gen home console.
Clue 2- Sega's merger with Sammy
Clue 3- Hajime Satomi's desire for rapid expansion and willingness to invest Pachinko and Pachislot income into new businesses.
Clue 4- Sega's choice to choose PVR for their next arcade board, thus meaning it'll be custom and not based on any future next gen console when they could of easily adopted Chihiro 2 based on Xenon which is released mere months after Sega plans on debuting it's new arcade system into the arcades of Japan.
Clue 5- The size of the new Holding company to emerge on the 1st of October cannot be underestimated. Sega-Sammy on 2003-2004 fiscal year alone is only second to Nintendo and by May of next year will have supplanted the Kyoto company and by 2006 to 2007 when the re-organisation takes place the company is estimated to be bringing in a Billion dollars of net profits annually. On pure profit count alone that's not only bigger than Nintendo and EA, but also Sony.
Clue 6- The holding back of key franchises and general emptiness in the company's release schedules for the last year including the current one
Clue 7- Isn't kind of weird that Sega hyped up it's pre-e3 conference this year beyond belief, only for them to end up delivering the Matrix online?
Well I don't see it that way, I think what really happened was Sega was ready to unveil not only it's next gen console but also Yu Suzuki's Shenmue III. Why didn't it happen? Well according to some- Shenmue's trademark had expired and it was only in June when Sega got it back thus leaving Sega to think up of something else for the announcement, that something else being the Matrix online.
Clue 8- If you check Imagination Technologies upcoming year statements, when they refer to their next GPU they say that it targets arcades(sega's next board), PC desk top and also Consoles, I've heard many IMGtec guys in magazines over the last few months in PC mags saying the same thing, a few months ago one of them actually said- "this would be ideal for a next generation console" when refering to it's upcoming "high end" graphics technology.
The truth of the matter is this- we all know that both Nintendo and Microsoft have partnered with Ati to supply the GPU's for their future machines, as both companies have already announced this. So if Nintendo has Ati, Microsoft has ATi and Sony has it's own, then what machine are they "targeting" with their upcoming GPU? who else is left on the field? infinium and the Phantom 2?
Highly unlikely.
Just like you had Naomi and Dreamcast based on it, the chances for a Naomi3(or whatever it'll be called) and a home system based of it is seeming more and more likely as time goes on.
Clue 9 - Since going 3rd party Sega hasn't made a penny from it's home division, this third party publishing thing hasn't brought in one dollar, not one.
Clue 10 - The return of UK resistance. I was actually quite shocked that these guys made a comeback, they hadn't updated since when sega axed the DC back in 2001. So why would they decide to return? Maybe they know something we don't.
Clue 11 - The benefits of a proprietry format-
- You don't have to pay any royalties. With game development costs rising the last thing you want to be doing is giving a split of the sales of the next "Virtua Fighter", "Sonic" to the hardware manufacturers.
- Unity of Sega fans - All sega fans would be under one roof again, and as Yuji Naka pointed out at E3 2003 "Sega was more idolised back then"
Clue 12 - Alot of people say that Sega doesn't have the sort of money to R&D a new console as it takes hundreds of millions of dollars and that's true, it does take alot of money but what I have to say to them is this- The fact that Sega has publicly announced that the Naomi3 is in developement, the fact that it'll be revealed very soon and the fact that in 6 months time it'll be sitting in arcades around the world is evidence that the "Research and Developement" for a next generation videogames playing machine has been done. All they'd have to do now is design a casing for the home consumer and stick a DVD drive on and you'd have yourself a next gen home console.
Lastly, the UK Resistance (link) might be onto something:
*confused*. And for the Game Boy... what makes it any more rectangle than any other handheld console, like my Game Gear? The sharp edges I guess? 
