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Could SEGA return to the home console game? If yes - what must they do hardware-wise to compete with the Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony products?
>>330684481
No, they are not a hardware manufacturer anymore. Even all their arcade machines are just custom PCs.
Nor do they have the manpower required to distribute hardware.All their non Japanese branches are tiny. Sega of America just last year sold their SF office to Zynga and moved to southern California.
No.
It would cost about 1 billion dollars to get back into the console market. Note that that's the cost get back in; not to be competitive.
And what would they do once they did it? People aren't buying there game now, they sure as shit going to buy hardware to do it.
No. One of the three dropping out of the console business is more likely at this point.
>>330684815
>>330685067
Say somebody decided to invest money in SEGA (it being one of the major players in home console market back in the day), what would SEGA had to do to compete in today market?
>>330684481
>If yes - what must they do hardware-wise to compete with the Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony products?
find a genie in a bottle. or a monkey paw. your choice.
>>330685441
You are talking about miracles. But how technologically could they achieve the recognition/dominance of their product on market today? Let's say they have the funding.
>>330685348
-Offer hardware more powerful than the PS4/Xbone (while selling at the same or cheaper price).
-Get every single major third-party on board. Pay them for exclusive content.
-Heavily invest in their own studios and create sequels to classic SEGA series as well as new IP for mainstream audiences.
SEGA can't afford any of that and nor should they want to do any of that.
>>330685348
1. That investor would have to be Japanese. You know exactly how Sega feels about foreigners.
2. That investor would never want a new home console given Japan's current vidya state
Let it go. At best, they start making good arcade games if VR does something to bring life back into arcades
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>>330685709
>SEGA can't afford any of that and nor should they want to do any of that.
>>330685743
>Let it go. At best, they start making good arcade games if VR does something to bring life back into arcades
I just wanted to make an interesting (IMO) thread about SEGA. Speculation only. No monkey paw or anything.
>no GameGear II to pick up the weeb mantle from Sony when they drop the Vita for good
>>330684481
>Could SEGA return to the home console game?
Nope.
But I'm sure some other company will rise up with a new console once the XBOX gets shit canned and merged with PC.
>>330685974
A GameGear successor would eat up so much battery power it would probably have to classified as a light truck to be legally sold anywhere.
>>330684481
Yes, Sega has at various times since closing their console hardware division still sold Sega branded PCs. Sega is also one of the first companies to release software for Valve's SteamOS.
If they were to port more of their software to SteamOS next year they could sell a mini PC using one of AMD's Zen/Polaris SOC chips that could outperform the current gen consoles and offer a larger game library.
>>330684481
SEGA needs more games
>>330685935
Well there's your answer, it's really not complicated. Maybe one day we'll see a return to arcades, or if for some reason all the big 3 crash, Sega will salvage the wreckage
>>330685743
>You know exactly how Sega feels about foreigners.
Isn't it this ironic, considering it was founded by an american?
It's OK. They've got the memes now.
>>330686561
Get the full pic. With the top post.
>>330686273
They have forty games...
There's hardly enough space in the current industry for the bit 3, let alone 4.
I could see Nintendo or Microsoft buying up SEGA's games division, though. Or at least all the rights to their IPs. Imagine if the next Xbox had exclusive rights to all SEGA games, and then they decided to make sequels to stuff like Panzer Dragoon or Burning Rangers.
Considering that the Xbox was quite literally made using the Dreamcast as a base, and the Dreamcast itself ran Windows, it's not so unlikely.
If Microsoft drops out of Consoles, I could see SEGA getting if, and only if, someone else backs them up with unlimited loads of cash.
>>330686786
The only people with enough cash to throw around to get into the console business is Apple or Google. And neither of them are going to choose to do it with SEGA brand over their own.
>>330686561
holy shit. thats so rude.
Why sega has such shit marketing?
I am playibg bynary domain and holy fuck it's much better then what I thought. The game is basically a cinematic tps done right.
Until sega doesn't get its shit together it will have problems even selling its games.
>>330687184
It's literally an award winning twitter account.
>>330686995
Good point, but please recall that when Gen 5 was about to roll in, nobody thought Sony would ever have anything to do with vidya. We have the benefit of hindsight now, but up until that point, the only companies that dealt with vidya in that age were exclusively console and/or computer building companies.
Who knows, maybe some random behemoth company out there has their eyes on the vidya business for years already, and they're just waiting for one of the major 3 to step out so they can step in. Using the SEGA brand and IPs wouldn't be such a bad tactic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_video_game_franchises
Consoles are dead, the industry has been unfairly trashing sega for years so nu males and kids would just make fun of them without understanding them (similar to trump actually). There is no more room in the industry for a 4th console, and the nx and xbone will be microsofts and nintendos last consoles. Even the PS5 might no be a traditional console as we know it
Not until they stop making shit decisions when it comes to the western market
>PSO2 is coming to PS4 in Japan next month
>We still have nothing
>Still stuck playing JP with english patch
>>330687383
>Using the SEGA brand and IPs wouldn't be such a bad tactic.
They should not wait much longer. People who remember good things about SEGA are getting old and dying out.
>>330687498
PSO2 sucks ass anyway, retard
>>330687723
>PSO2 sucks ass anyway, retard
>>330687881
>kid who has never played or experience english pso and psu servers
You should learn what youre talking about before shitposting, you might be better at baiting
>>330687974
>>330687881
It's sorta true, it's all the more reason why it needs to go worldwide already like it was intended to, maybe then we won't see the game and the series spiral into more p2w cash grab practices.
>>330687974
Way to get defensive over nothing and defend the absolute shit practice Sega is pulling
>It's coming guys we swear
>3 years later
>It's coming!
>Still nothing
>>330684481
No. But if they were to Nintendo is the only one they could ccompete against if they knew what to do and got lucky.
>>330688473
Why the fuck would you even want it anyway faggot? The only people who care about this are newfags who have never played pso or psu. There is a ton of licensing and promotional events that are strictly in tune with japanese culture and theres no way they wouldve licensed or localized it all so you would just cry MUH CENSORSHIP FUCK U IM PLAYING JAP SERVER WITH ENGLISH PATCH XD like everyone else with a brain has been doing for years
SEGA needs a new hardware idea, something that would be not just more powerful in terms of performance, but also had its own thing.
>>330684481
60fps is the only thing that matters in video games
>>330684481
release $599 Blu-Ray machine
>>330689362
Nintendo has that in the form of the WiiU. The problem is that if the hardware isn't up to the same standards as the dudebro consoles, companies don't bring their multiplats over.
SEGA's edge was the use of online multiplayer, since the days of the Mega Drive. It was never too popular but it was something. The Gimmick SEGA needs to come back as a console(again, only if some other company would pump endless amounts of money into them) could be some sort of modern reimagining of the DC's VMU.
Of course, VMUs' basic features are moot nowdays, but it could work if they made the console intrinsically integrated with Smartphones. Kind of like a WiiU pad, except it's not expensive because all you'd have to do would be to craddle your phone into the controller. Then each game would have integration directly on the phone, so you could play it from anywhere or even stream directly to the phone.
Maybe an actual phone-producing company would want to buy into something like this?
>>330688473
This like holy shit how westerns people bitch about pso2 not being like 1 more than the fact of Sega literally taking the series away from the west for no reason is beyond me
>>330690326
SEGA need to make FREE multiplayer in their console. No subscription to play online.
