Will they ever make a home console again?

Do you think Hudson/SNK/Sega would ever get back into making home consoles again? I wish they did, or would team up to make one...

 

Well, that depends if one of the consoles drops out. 4 consoles on the market are a bit too much for the developers and consumers. If Microsoft or Nintendo drops out, they have a chance, but not in their current situation. Add the fact that the entire Sega line-up for the current generation has been absolute horrible, and there is little chance they will enter the console market again.

 

agreed, the market already has 3 main consoles, until one of the companies drops the hardware buis, theres no chance for a 4th system to compete, poor dreamcast if it lasted longer i can only imagine what would have been released.

 

Yeah right. Everyone said that three consoles couldn't compete at once and that wasn't true. What makes you now think the magic number is four?

Besides, who says it has to be a "main console" anyway? They could follow the GP32 model. Hell, they could even still sell their games on other consoles or license them to other companies for distribution. There's a world of possibilites ansd permutations out there that you're not taking into account.


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NEO GEO did it for a long while.. Don't know why they don't do it again how much was a NEo Geo when it came out new? They put out games for years. I could see it happening again. I want different i want good gaming. The system doesn't have to be a dvd player/ media center/ nose hair trimmer (even though those are kewl) as long as games were fun and addictive. I want to live and work in this world and play in the fantasy world some japanese caffine junkie created at 4 in the moring.

 

im pretty sure it launched at 699.99(compared to have that for a snes) and the last game was released around 99/200 i think....they never had market share, they knew they werent going to win the war, but they fought all they could..its too bad, that the closest we've seen to a underdog would be the gp32...

 

Neo Geo Strategy wasn't to get market share. It was to earn money by selling to a small elite group, who would play a premium for arcade perfect games.

 

But when the Phantom comes out there will be fo.... No, I can't even type that with a straight face...

 

I think the last Neo Geo home games actually came out in 2003. For the last couple years distribution was handled by online websites, at least in the US, I don't know if maybe Playmore sold AES games themselves in Japan. I think not. But that's the systems like we're talking about should be. Games can come from a vairety of sources, third parties, first parties, independent basement developers, all sorts of stuff.

I would really love to see something like that happen again. It could have happened with the Atomiswave. Sega-Sammy could have sold a home version (preferably backwards compatible with original DC games). That would have been considerably cheaper than the Neo Geo home system (which was more like three or four times the price of a SNES), defintiely had cheaper games and even would have had more support, what with Sammy and Playmore and occasionally Sega themselves as well as tiny third parties like Alfa Systems. Maybe they could have actively encouraged the homebrew scene, too. Would have been nice. Maybe could have even been successful on a limited scale. Too bad it didn't happen.

I don't think it really ever will, at least not from any known companies like Sega-Sammy, SNK-Playmore or Hudson. But aside from the four systems can't compete thing, what Jasonkhowell said about Sega's poor lineup is true. I don't think it's horrible, but it's not as impressive as what they were doingin the Saturn or Dreamcast days. Same goes for SNK and while I haven't played any of Hudson's newer games, nothing that I've seen looks as good as their NES and TurboGrafx period. Maybe it's best to forget those companies and keep a look out for some other possibly unheard of company coming along who might actually be willing to take the risk and honestly might end up producing better games than those companies are these days anyway.

Hmm...what's the name of the company supposedly producing the Phantom?

Hah!

Seriously, though, I'm not holding my breath to see something like this happen, it'd be cool if it did, but I'm in no hurry. I've got a ton of gaming on my old systems to keep me busy for the rest of my life.


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Sega - NO!!!! nononononononononono! Why does noone believe them? They don't have the money anyway!

SNK - don't exist.

SNK Playmore - doubtful. Think they mentioned an AES revival once though, didn't they?

Hudson - err, what console did they make? They're called Hudson SOFT for a reason! I don't remember them making much hardware at all, besides the bomberman multi tap.

 

They made the TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine

 

and they had a 32 bit machine too

 

Hudson made the chipset, not the whole machine AFAIK. That's like saying Microsoft made the dreamcast!

 

what im saying looking at the current market, theres is an oversaturation of games, now im not saying its not possible to compete, but as of now it seems that most people have their minds on which 3 to support, the thing is neo geo wasnt marketed as a main contender, it was sorta a niche market idea that was used to mostly help promote mvs games. Suprisingly snk didnt drop support for it until the mvs was discountinued. Hell i was even shocked they were releasing games when the company itself was gone for a short period.

 

yea, shortly after snk folded, a neogeo game was released....i remember reading it in egm

 

When USA captures Osama Bin Laden.

 

Microsoft allowed the creation of a development kit out of their software that was used in about 12 games (I said games). They definitely didn't design the architecture. Hudson can legitimately be said to have made the PC Engine.

Anyway, we all know it's the games that make the system, and Hudson's games definitely made the Turbo. Nobody would call Hudson's TurboGrafx games third party.

Because no one should ever believe anything a corporation says.

And they'd have enough money to produce a console--even a mainstream console--if Sammy wanted to do it, but Sammy obviously has even less interest than Sega does.


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Sega themselves got into pretty deep sh1t after their theme park accident..... that didn't make them any money!!

I don't think Hudson actually designed the ENTIRETY of the hardware, just some of it. Like making the custom CPU or whatever. That happens a lot though. nVidia made the GPU for the Xbox - but it isn't an nVidia Xbox. I know for a fact that the PAL version had to have a redesign and this was not touched by Hudson! Hudson were contracted by NEC to make custom parts for their platform. Fortunately, they had a pretty big part in it, hardware and software wise!

 

Well if it did happen it would be a good time... just offer great games that rae refreshing. People would jump on it. How many cell phone providers are there.