What if SEGA came back with an all physical console?

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olninty

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While physical game media is being dropped/phased out, do you think there is scope for someone like SEGA to come back from the dead, offering only physical releases? The hardware would be nothing crazy but good enough to play any SEGA/Arcade games, plus whatever else they could licence, while being adjusted for modern TV screens. Think a beefier Evercade type experience.

Would you buy one for $199? I sure as hell would.
 
No....just no, and I say this as someone who loves what Sega used to be. Modern day Sega couldn't support a console, and there's no need for them to even try.
 
RetroGamingUK said:
Yet you had an amazing console for £199 with a library of awesome games, many of which still hold up today.
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It's really a shame. If they hadn't fumbled so badly with 32X/Saturn I think the DC would've been successful and there may not have been room for MS to enter the market.

Though, their other big mistake was single analog stick controls.
 
If they released something retro like the Atari 2600+ that played actual Genesis carts I would probably buy that but I don't see any need for a modern Sega console as I can just use my PC.
 
So instead of just buying physical Sega games on the Ps5 I already own I get a $200 console so I can buy physical Sega games and play them with shittier performance?
 
What if someone posted this "idea" ever month for 20 years?

It would literally impossible for Sega to compete in today's hardware business. They simply aren't large enough.
 
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take your meds and lie down OP
 
olninty said:
While physical game media is being dropped/phased out, do you think there is scope for someone like SEGA to come back from the dead, offering only physical releases? The hardware would be nothing crazy but good enough to play any SEGA/Arcade games, plus whatever else they could licence, while being adjusted for modern TV screens. Think a beefier Evercade type experience.

Would you buy one for $199? I sure as hell would.
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On the hardware subject, it's nearly pointless when a big GPU-equipped APU has gained a business use case.
 
lastmessiah said:
How can you look at the media landscape today and think "perhaps Sega will produce a physical-only console platform"? I mean really.
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I guess I'm being optimistic that the physical gamers will have a last bastion console that actually prospers, and I'd love for SEGA to be that console. I was suggesting more retro than up to date games. I don't know how many consoles Evercade has sold but I strongly believe something similar by SEGA would absolutely sell.
 
If they pack enough arcade games, with high quality emulation even 21:9 support like the PS3 Daytona USA and support for some of the wheels of the market I'm sure in.
 
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I would love an Evercade style console from them featuring their old arcade and console games but knowing Sega they would fuck it up. What I'd rather them do is license some of there stuff to Evercade or just release collections like Atari and others are doing, all we ever got was Mega Drive/Genesis collections over and over again.
 
Well there is space, and clearly the big 2 companies (I wont even consider MS) are leaving room for someone to take console to be what they always where: A budget option against PC.

Now, I dont think modern SEGA can pull this off tho
 
ViperZombie said:
I would love an Evercade style console from them featuring their old arcade and console games but knowing Sega they would fuck it up. What I'd rather them do is license some of there stuff to Evercade or just release collections like Atari and others are doing, all we ever got was Mega Drive/Genesis collections over and over again.
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That was my first thought too - why wouldn't SEGA just release their stuff on Evercade and call it a day?
 
olninty said:
Would you buy one for $199? I sure as hell would.
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You can buy the cardboard box for the console with that price for today's market

But I can see they selling some Raspberry console with emulators. Or even maybe a FPGA machine - that for sure won't be cheap, and you can download their games
 
phant0m said:
It's really a shame. If they hadn't fumbled so badly with 32X/Saturn I think the DC would've been successful and there may not have been room for MS to enter the market.

Though, their other big mistake was single analog stick controls.
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32x was unforgivable. I had a genesis, sega cd, Saturn and Dreamcast. I wonder what things would have been like if Sega never released the Sega CD and 32x and put all their resources into the Saturn and then the Dreamcast with a bigger focus on Sonic and the west.
 
olninty said:
While physical game media is being dropped/phased out, do you think there is scope for someone like SEGA to come back from the dead, offering only physical releases? The hardware would be nothing crazy but good enough to play any SEGA/Arcade games, plus whatever else they could licence, while being adjusted for modern TV screens. Think a beefier Evercade type experience.

Would you buy one for $199? I sure as hell would.
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I'd sure as fuck buy the thing. I can't say enough about how much I've come to hate console gaming in 2025 after loving it so much for so long.
 
Sega launching a console where they keep all of their and Atlus games exclusive would probably outshine PlayStation's lineup. Nintendo would still have better exclusives but a Sega console would be mandatory in my opinion.
 
phant0m said:
It's really a shame. If they hadn't fumbled so badly with 32X/Saturn I think the DC would've been successful and there may not have been room for MS to enter the market.

Though, their other big mistake was single analog stick controls.
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Saturn could have been done a bit better, but still had great games and perhaps the best 2d controller ever. They Osborned it too soon for the DC, and priced the latter a little too low to profit.

Their mistake was the 32x and sticking it out too long with the Genesis.
 
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