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What is Sega Spectrum?
- Thread starter shaowebb
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There goes my dream.T_T
â Narayan
Member
I hope it's a new arcade board, and I hope Virtua Fighter 6 is running on it.
wait not that many people knew about this?Sega Japan:
Sega West:
Dreamwriter
Member
Keep in mind that the Sega we have today has never released a home game console. They were bought by a company that mainly made arcade machines, and Sega's home console unit was dissolved. Yes, keep that in mind when they introduce the best new game console ever.
NerdEyeBlind
Member
Dreamcast Reboot with Sega version of Virtual Console included.
IrishNinja
Member
^never noticed the logo thing either, nice
man after the M2 port of Super Hang On, id be all over this!
ive been sitting on this preorder money since like when Pac was alive, and no one to give it to
man after the M2 port of Super Hang On, id be all over this!
ive been sitting on this preorder money since like when Pac was alive, and no one to give it to
alexandros
Banned
I don't see why not. I'm sure there are quite a few Sega fans who would love to play their games on Sega hardware again.
Phire Phox
Banned
Wouldn't be surprised if it was a new console. Somebody needs to take Nintendo's spot when the Wii U tanks. 
And that's fifteen years of dismantling their hardware teams and any infrastructure they had that could support their own console, of new ownership and new management. Not only can they not afford it, I don't think they're capable of it anymore. People were passionate about the Dreamcast but that didn't save it, people being passionate about a new Sega console wouldn't save that, either.
I hope everyone is being sarcastic, or they're in for a serious letdown.
So they can die a second death? Not the smartest approach, but I'll give it to them.
IrishNinja
Member
they survived going 3rd party, nintendo wont
oh crap i'm not in the nostalgia/16-bit console war thread, my bad
KojiKnight
Member
.... Why would anyone want to see Sega return to consoles at this point in time? How would this possibly benefit them? Do people want to see Sega return to being beggars AGAIN?
(Edit) Though... a thought occurs to me.... Sega could try releasing a new portable. I'd say they'd have a better chance than Vita at this point.
(Edit) Though... a thought occurs to me.... Sega could try releasing a new portable. I'd say they'd have a better chance than Vita at this point.
GoofsterStud
Member
As much as I would love to see a Sega Console. Sega is in shambles still. A lot of the reasons I loved Sega are not around. The main developers and the studios are all gone.
Their is no way I could take current Sega seriously as a contender; however, as second party that would be a Megaton.
Their is no way I could take current Sega seriously as a contender; however, as second party that would be a Megaton.
If someone ever money hat's Sega I'd be forced to buy their system.
tiggerkiddo
Member
Please anything but a console. If it fails, goodbye Sega and I don't want that!
It would need to load games from old cassette tapes.
Stephen Stills
Member
Sega and Clive Sinclair.
Every mid 30s gamer in the U.K. weeps tears of nostalgia.
Every mid 30s gamer in the U.K. weeps tears of nostalgia.
revolverjgw
Member
What an ugly collection of colors in that logo
Where's that pic from?
Apart from the C64 and Amstrad owners
#TeamAmstrad reporting
Master Thespian
Member
This.∀ Narayan;54655305 said:
It's CMYK. For some reason.
Mr. Pointy
Member
Hey guys.
I used to work at an EB Games up until recently (2011) and I was at a manager's conference, which happened to have some game company reps. Anyway, I got to discussing all things Sega with this inebriated low-ranking Sega Australia marketing person and, long story short, she told me the specs of the Sega Spectrum. Please note that this is completely unrelated to the Dreamcast 2 - which was cancelled by Sega out of spite.
CPU: Intel Sandy Bridge-based CPU, equivalent to quad-core 2720QM processor
GPU: AMD Radeon GPU, equivalent to 5850M mobile GPU
RAM: 1GB GDDR5 pool, 4GB DDR3 pool
Storage: 16GB flash, USB 2.0/eSATA external HDD compatible
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0
OS: Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread fork at the time, would possibly be ICS or JB by now.
Optical Media: 4x Blu-ray drive, 50GB discs
Ports: 4x USB 2.0, 1x eSATA
Controller: breakapart dual-analog style gamepad with dual gyroscopes/accelerometers
I used to work at an EB Games up until recently (2011) and I was at a manager's conference, which happened to have some game company reps. Anyway, I got to discussing all things Sega with this inebriated low-ranking Sega Australia marketing person and, long story short, she told me the specs of the Sega Spectrum. Please note that this is completely unrelated to the Dreamcast 2 - which was cancelled by Sega out of spite.
CPU: Intel Sandy Bridge-based CPU, equivalent to quad-core 2720QM processor
GPU: AMD Radeon GPU, equivalent to 5850M mobile GPU
RAM: 1GB GDDR5 pool, 4GB DDR3 pool
Storage: 16GB flash, USB 2.0/eSATA external HDD compatible
Networking: Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0
OS: Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread fork at the time, would possibly be ICS or JB by now.
Optical Media: 4x Blu-ray drive, 50GB discs
Ports: 4x USB 2.0, 1x eSATA
Controller: breakapart dual-analog style gamepad with dual gyroscopes/accelerometers
What? God don't fuck with me, I don't even want to enertain this being true. I couldn't withstand the crushing disappointment.
Yeah, it is obviously a fake. Imagine sitting in a meeting, then a marketing person(!) just sits down to you and starts writing down specs like that
"Oh yeah, and it has 4gb ddr3. Remember, the OS is definitely Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread fork, definitely! Oh, wait, do not forget about 1xeSata port either!"
Bah.
Mr. Pointy
Member
It as real as you want it to be.
yeah man my uncle works at SEGA australia and he said yu suzuki told him the same specs
Unsuitable for a console.
A Sandy Bridge cpu running Android? Overkill. Way, way overkill.
Why?
IrishNinja
Member
Red Chocobo
Banned
Launch with Sega Rally 3 and I'd buy it up in an instant.
lol at people wanting a new Sega console. Sorrounding the doom and gloom of everything currently, I thought that would be a good sign to everybody that traditional game makers (Nintendo) have little place anymore. And I don't think they have the developer strengh anymore to do borderline System sellers.
At best it could be a new Arcade Board.
At best it could be a new Arcade Board.
Ringedge2 just launched last year.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
Sega has been way more successful as a third party. Stay the course Sega.
solarplexus
Member
Source please?
frankie_baby
Member
Apart from the C64 and Amstrad owners
Well the spectrum ended up being bought by Alan sugar
That the full spectrum of colours can be produced from CMYK..?