If there was a Follow up to the dreamcast.....

What do you think it'd have been called?

what do you think it would have done and who would have had to be be forced out of the industry to make room for it (I'm thinking the XBOX would have failed if the Dreamcast didn't)

 

DUKE NUKEM FOREVER!

 

Your really hyped up about it aren't you :lol:

 

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Dreamcast 2

 

Diecast

 

Nightmareretainer?

 

Something tells me it won't be Dreamcast 2 (Sega usually call system redesigns "2"). If it is a Dreamcast rerelease, it'd probably be called the DC 2, and maybe use an improved SH4 (400 or 600Mhz are in development) or an SH5, to keep backwards compatibility. The issue with that would be the graphics and sound cards, which I have a suspicion aren't being made anymore.

I do see a rerelease of the system (even a modestly improved rerelease) with a DVD drive, wireless controllers, built in ethernet and internal memory to be more likely than a whole new system.

If there were to be a new system, I could see a Freescale G4 chip in there, or maybe the new PWRficient chip from PA Semi which is being release sometime around now (no idea on prices though). A G3 chip from IBM like the Wii's could be an option too. PowerPC is the way to go for consoles right now though.

 

If it ever happens I will show my arse in Burton's window.

 

Oh yeah.......I forgot about that rumor.

I'm so......absent minded. (that and there's a thread already)

But this is more....what would it be called.

 

Vaporcast

 

I hate fucking slapping a 2 on the end of a system name. I want another cool name like Saturn or Genesis if it happened.

 

Pointless post cast

Yakumo

 

I thought the Xbox was the Dreamcast's successor...

 

I personally wished the Dreamcast had been called Katana or Dural. The name DC was a bit too fruity for the US market, IMO.
In the highly unlikely event that there were a successor, I'd be happy with anything other than Dreamcast 2.

 

It would be called...

THE XBOX!

No?

k.

Sega Evangelion

 

Given that every new generation of Sega machine has had a name that is nothing like the former... SG-1000, Mark III, Megadrive, Game Gear, Pico, Saturn, Dreamcast, trying to guess a new name is like trying to watch paint peel.

 

godofweirdtopics
cast.

 

this is the dreamcast 2 power


CPU : 2 x Hitachi SH-4 32-bit RISC CPU (200 MHz 360 MIPS / 1.4 GFLOPS)
Graphic Engine : 2 x PowerVR 2 (PVR2DC-CLX2) GPU's - (under the fans)
Geometry Processor : Custom Videologic T+L chip "Elan" (100mhz) - (Under Heatsink)
Sound Engine : ARM7 Yamaha AICA 45 MHZ (with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM)
Main Memory : 32 MByte 100Mhz SDRAM
Graphic Memory : 32 MByte
Model Data Memory : 32MByte
Sound Memory : 8 MByte
Media : DVD ROM / GD-Rom
Simultaneous Number of Colors : Approx. 16,770,000 (24bits)
Polygons : 10 Million polys/sec with 6 light sources
Rendering Speed : 2000 Mpixels/sec (unrealistic max, assumes overdraw of 10x which nothing uses)

Additional Features : Bump Mapping, Multiple Fog Modes, 8-bit Alpha Blending (256 levels of transparency), Mip Mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), Tri-Linear Filtering, Super Sampling for Full Scene Anti-Aliasing, Environment Mapping, and Specular Effect.
Compatibility : Fully backwards compatible with all dreamcast GD-Rom games.

 

Had the Dreamcast be succesful enough, SEGA's new console would most probably be called Dreamcast 2, simply becos Sony did that with the PS2...

The Xbox "couldnt" fail, mostly becos it actually did fail, but MS kept throwing money at it, so it didnt sunk like a brick...

Interesting, but I can already hear all the jokes people would make with that and the anime series:lol:

That sounds like a Naomi2 with a DVD, which at the time of the DC being replaced (2003?) it would have been kinda obsolete...