Interesting to say the least....Taken from Gamasutra: [Tuesday, May 23, 2000] Sega Confirmation Sega is confirming a shuffle of the top brass. As speculated, Sega Enterprises President Shoichiro Irimajiri will step aside to allow Isao Ohkawa, president of Sega parent company CSK, to takeover. Ohkawa is moving into the hot in order to oversee a massive restructuring of Sega's development activities. The reorganization plan, originally announced in November, will split Sega's interested into a total of nine separate units organized by region and specialty. Irimajiri will stay on in a vice presidential role to focus on the creation of a Dreamcast successor.
Now that is great news !!! One of the resons why Sony always had the better tech is because they always released their systems just after Sega. If Sega do make a new system then it'S going to be a PS3 beater for sure. Could this be the comeback of the once arse kicking Mega Drive days Sega? Let's hope so. Until then I'm still quite happy with the stuff I have. No need for a Cube, PS2, XBOX at all :-D Well, I did buy a DS today with Mario 64 since I've never actually played that game before. Yakumo
2000? Maybe they were at one point, but if the date is accurate, that would mean it was before the major announcement.
Whao whoa..look at the date on that mate!!! Ohkawa took over SEGA ages ago..this was way back when when all R&D's were spun off as separate companies...when CSK was the parent company... That's all over. CSK sold out and no longer has anything to do with SEGA> Sammy took over, killed the studios, the rest is well known. Dreamcast 2 will never come. I don't care what anyone else will say, the SEGA we knew is gone. As for the DS I would really recommend you pick up Feel the Magic/I Would Die For You Yakumo, it's the only game right now on the DS that really makes use of the system. Unfortunately the disply on the thing is still too damn small to properly be able to play a 3D platformer without squinting, that's one genre I will never buy for my DS but will leave to the PSP.
eak.. looks the the assembler board database reverted back to an old version... a very old version! pretty sure someone is very confused! the only new hardware to come out of that place will be the next arcade stuff they produce.... sadly. :smt022
Haha, I can't believe that the date was missed! :smt043 :smt043 Yeah, Sega's gone from hardware, unless they are bought by yet someone else. But the Sega as we knew it is gone.
... Hey,this is old,there is no mistake, It just shows that at some time Sega was considering/had started developing a succesor to Dreamcast.I even read that Yuji Naka was seriously pushing them into this and not towards the software only approach they have nowadays... So,who knows how much work they had done on DC 2,if they even did anything...
I doubt the DC2 had gotten very far before the axing, unless the whole Sega-Sammy thing is just a giant hoax and Sega is planning a huge secret comeback! On second thought, forget I said any of that :smt042 .
make no mistake, Sega *was* working on a Dreamcast 2, or a Dreamcast sucessor, back in 1999-2000 or 1999-2001. but it was of course, canned, or at least shelved. there were rumors by a guy named 'Sonic' on the Dreamcast Technical Pages aka DCTP, that Sega was working on a new 3D rendering hardware that would be fairly revolutionary. 'Sonic' called this "Project Pheonix" I don't expect Sega to made another console for the Xbox2-PS3 generation. maybe the one after it, IF Sega is extremely sucessful with software this coming cycle.
Project Phoenix Although many would have loved to believe the whole "Project Phoenix" myth that was circulating in places such as the Dreamcast Technical Pages (DCTP), it was sadly just that - a myth. Sega was indeed still developing hardware after the Dreamcast, but not with the intention of releasing a new console. I'm sure that anyone familiar with the company's history (in particular its final years) will know about the prototype DVD and MP3 players that were planned, while some will even be able to recall those ill-fated attempts to create a digital satellite receiver with Dreamcast support via broadband download technology. Then again, who remembers the proposed Dreamcast-compatible PC graphics card? It's not as if Sega closed its hardware doors immediately following the Dreamcast's launch, but even at such an early point it was clear that this make-or-break effort indicated a bad future ahead. There have been more recent stories of a possible new system created with Sammy's funding that is based around the Atomiswave coin-op board (itself derived from the Dreamcast/NAOMI specification), though once again such rumours are only being kept alive by the few remaining people that are unable to accept that the "Old Sega" is gone. The announcement that a single-chip version of the Dreamcast has been designed only helped to fuel more speculation, but I personally will only start to get excited about any resurrection when details leak from Sega's own mouth. If someone as influential and respected as Yuji Naka has failed to keep Sega in the hardware business, then perhaps we should all finally realise that maybe the company's best days are indeed consigned to the past? They'll definitely produce a few good titles as a software-oriented company, yet it's unlikely that they'll ever truly be capable of emulating their prime years... unless you decide to use the word "emulation" literally, that is!
there are two SoC (system on a chip) that have Hitachi SuperH CPU plus PowerVR graphics, that have been called Dreamcast on a chip. 1. an actual Dreamcast on a chip developed by Sega, announced in 2000 or 2001. that intergrates the SH-4, PowerVR2DC and possibly the DC Yamaha sound subsystem on a single chip. 2. the much more recent Renesas SH3707 that they have hyped, or is being hyped, as a Dreamcast on a chip. this does not use the actual Dreamcast technologies, but a newer Hitachi SuperH CPU with some variant of the PowerVR MBX. overall, the Renesas SH3707 is said to be roughly twice as powerful as DC. the older, actual DC-on-a-chip, was intended for use in the PC card that would play DC games, the PACE set-top box in europe, future versions of the Dreamcast console, DVD players (iirc) and even rumored for inclusion in the Xbox. Sega will probably continue to stumble along for some time. months and most likely years. but given time, they may evolve into something great once again. all it takes is a couple of amazing games and Sega could be back, and even producing hardware. this is an optimistic view. I know. yet I'm realistic too. for now, Sega will continue to struggle to find itself. this coming generation of hardware (DS, PSP, Xbox Next, Revolution, PS3, GameBoy Next) will be the first full generation that Sega is 3rd party. I hope they make the most of it.
I'm sure there was at least "some" work going on for the DC's successor... probably before the DC was released. There has to be R&D left over from one that just won't work in the current gen.
