Oh, and James, what are these rumblings I"m hearing about Sega getting back into the console game?
That'll never happen. Sadly, they have been wanting to get out after Genesis. Especially David Rosen, the co-founder.
However...Considering they have a monopoly on the arcade hardware industry (And have had one for almost a decade now!), it's more possible than one may think.
The issue is public trust, not hardware quality. Sega has had the best hardware engineers around, in my opinion. If you look at the specs of their machines and see how much they did with so little, and the immense innovation involved, it's breathtaking.
I mean, the Game Gear was a Master System with an expanded color pallette and a low-res screen.
If you de-integrate the social stigma, public trust, and everything from a Sega console, the hardware specs are amazing. The Sega CD, for 1991, was nothing short of revolutionary. And the 32X had a helluva lot more power than one would think - CPU wise, it was faster than the PlayStation. It was almost on par with Saturn, so with the 32X you could use software rendering to overcome it's somewhat shitty graphics chip. And if you look at games like DarXide, which never saw an American release, they look just as good as PlayStation or Saturn.
DarXide is now out for mobile phones, however.
Last night I had to run to my bedroom for a few things and noticed I had my Dreamcast set up with a demo disc. Yeah, needless to say I dropped everything and went over there. Spent about 45 minutes with it. Loved what I saw, and everything I played was terribly original.
I'm glad
somebody understood my humor there. The silliness of that is unparalleled.
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