In efforts to help the japanese relief sega has released a Dreamcast Theme for the PS3! The theme is available in both European blue andd North America Orange. Below are pictures of both themes. Blue: Orange: For instructions on install and download links please visit sega's blog here: http://blogs.sega.com/usa/2011/04/22/support-japan-with-this-dreamcast-playstation-3-theme/ Install Your New Theme! You can install from external media, such as a flash drive, but it has to be in a specific folder, follow the steps below: 1. Change the files you download to add a .p3t extension. To do this, click the filename to highlight the name of the file, then add the .p3t to the end. The themes WILL NOT WORK without the p3t Extension! More info on changing file extensions within windows can be found here. 2. Create a directory within a flash drive with the following in UPPERCASE PS3\THEME\(themefile) 3. Pop this into your PlayStation3, copy to the system, and there you have it – a really cool new theme!
Arf If I didn't sell my PS3 to help fund the first HDR-0008 Geist Force HKT-06 GD-R I would have put that theme on it... -_- Still it doesn't look that bad though it could be better. I guess the same deal goes for the Dreamcast collection they released....
I find it very strange that they make it for the PS3 and not the 360 when many Sega fans actually went the Microsoft rout. Then again, you can't change the icons on a 360, only the background images. Yakumo
I think more important than where the hardcore fans went is where the exclusive games went. Apart from the Happy Tree Friends XBLA game and Sonic Free Riders, have there been any 360 exclusives from Sega? The PS3 exclusives like Valkyria Chronicles and Yakuza are a measure more significant in terms of how invested it makes Sega look in the platform. If you cut all the multiplatform games out of the equation (and disregard the handheld market entirely) then it looks like Sega does more business with Sony than with Microsoft.
If you'd told me ten years ago that Sony would let Sega plaster their console's OS with Dreamcast logos... I mean, I can't be the only one who finds that a strange twist.
Remember how big a surprise it was to start seeing Dreamcast ports on the PS2? I've always believed that Sega's ambitions were more modest than their competitors'. Sony wants to impose standards, Nintendo wants to take over childhood, and Microsoft wants to rub out their rivals. Sega just wants to make cool stuff, and usually they forget to turn a profit along the way. I remember reading an interview where one of the Dreamcast execs was talking about losing out on EA sports games on the platform. While he understood that it was a big loss from a business perspective, long after the fact he laughed it off as just another speed bump. For Sega to make a PS3 theme is one more indicator that they never take it personally, and just feel like making cool stuff.
Why would they take it personally? These are COMPANIES. Not people. They don't give a shit about what happened in the past even if some people on gaming forums like to personify them. They only care about making money, they don't hold grudges.
Yakumo was probably referring to how "most" Sega fans ran with Microsoft shortly after the DC died due to releases like JSRF, GunValkyrie, TJ&EIII, and PDOrta. I imagine today most old Sega fans (like myself) don't give a flying fuck about what Sega is doing because they are, quite frankly, just awful. :shrug:
As a counter example, look at the legal wrangling between Infinity Ward and Activision, or between Origin Systems and EA. Yes, in those cases it is also just business, but I would argue that there's more pride than money at stake there. Also, as I stated before I'm not always able to find proof that Sega cares about making money. The biggest example I can think of related to companies taking things personally is during the Sega Saturn launch, when Toys R Us got earlier access to the launch games and hardware than Kay Bee Toys. By way of retaliation, Kay Bee refused to carry Saturn games or hardware and refused shipments of those items in favor of Sony and Atari merchandise. I'm sure that was some marketing executive's bruised ego more than a corporate calculation, but the end result speaks for itself.
Lack of desire and incompetence are different, and generally Sega's failures have been caused by the latter.
From what i have seen there isn't going to be a PSP port. I emailed the creators of the theme though hopefully they put something out.
