Sega Kills Off Dreamcast?
by Maarten Goldstein, Jan 23, 2001 11:22am PSTUK trade website MCV is reporting that Sega will stop production of the Dreamcast consoles by the end of March already, due to continued heavy losses on the machine. Here's the word
A fourth straight year of losses, mainly caused by Dreamcast, have forced the company into a radical rethink of its strategy. The machine will continue to be marketed throughout 2001, halting sales once the inventory is exhausted. Software will continue to be developed for the machine by Sega in the mean time. The future for Sega lies as a software company on other formats and it already has five PlayStation 2 titles in the pipeline and two for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance machine, due out in March.Even if Sega continues to develop software, I doubt many 3rd party developers will. Suckage. Thanks to KungFu who let me know about the story. update: Sega of America issued the following press release regarding the news
Sega of America stated today that the company globally reaffirms its commitment to Dreamcast. In fact, Sega has more than 100 games worldwide coming out for the platform in the next year. It is not Sega's policy to comment on rumors and the company has not made any statement regarding ceasing manufacturing of Dreamcast or development for other videogame platforms
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If that was to happen, best 3 party support, as well as the argueably best first party developement.
Sonic team developing on ps2? I would be in happen.
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Programmers were just learning to harness the power of the dreamcast properly and producing massive mad games. Im sure the games will get better.
Anways, who wants to buy a PS2 now?? the games are complete shit, just like when the PS1 came out, give the dreamcast a year until decent PS2 games come out and then make the move I says.
BO!
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http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/front/docs/sega012401.htm
No, seriously: whether or not Sega makes the machine any more is a non-issue. There are well over 400 games available for the DC. That's more than anyone will ever play. If Sega kills off production of the console, those games will drop way, way down in price. Which is good for everyone who owns a DC.
True, this would seem to spell the end of development, but in this market, who expected the thing to last more than a couple of years anyway?
Anyway, the DC's future will rest in amateur development. There are some half a dozen emulators with more on the way; a VCD player; an mp3 player; and so on. MAME will eventually be ported, so you'll be able to play a couple thousand arcade games on your TV, too. The Dreamcast is dead? Long live the Dreamcast. :)
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FUCKING HYPOCRITES !!
All casual sony butt fuckers should be gang ripped and then beatin' outside the head with their oversized PS2.
YOU ALL MAKE ME SICK!!
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I know I probably would have picked up a DC by now, if it wasn't for the prospect of the X-Box.
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Their arcade games are still the best on the market.
Just remembered. I just renewed my subscription to the offical Dreamcast magazine. Ahhhh piss...
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Yes, X-Box 0\/\//\/5 j000000000000000000000000000!
Murphy was right..
Bake me an xbox please. NOW.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010123/tc/sega_japan_dc_2.html
Sigh, I see Reuters is reporting rumors now, too, and it seems even they can't make up their minds.
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When they don't even comment on this it might be true.. i hope not
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http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-4575165.html?tag=unkn
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The Nintendo/Microsoft looking to buy Sega rumor turned out to be nothing more then Sega confirming they are going to be working on a few GBA games.
Christ Hex, you're better then this! Do a little research. Sites that just throw news like this up without even trying to contact the involved parties for the actual facts just piss me off.
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http://www.mcvuk.com/
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Does anybody think we could see a collapse of the console market in the next 2 or 3 years?
Reasoning: There is gonna be a FLOOD of consoles.
X-box vs Gamecube vs PS2.
Plus, the DC(hopefully) and Gameboy(ok, not console, but close enough.)
The three big systems look solid and have strong potential support behind them, but I dunno how a saturated market will react. Especially when you factor in the PC hardware market.
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oh phleese...