Yes, SEGA is fucking with us.

[klee123]

Certainly wouldn't mind a new Sega Console.

[F for Fake]

Actually quite looking forward to seeing the SEGA logo on a new console, even if I dont get one.

What's region locking like these days, is it still a thing?

[Madmya]

Shit, I just remembered at work today that Sega revived Segata Sanshiro via his son very recently as well. It's definitely happening.

The best.

[Froggy]

Bahaha, I was cracking up at the new one the other day as well. I'm starting to get a little tingle in my loins that I haven't had about gaming in years!

[Peppermint Lounge]

Sega aren't marrying up with MS on hardware. Sega are doing just fine thank you very much. They aren't a struggling company anymore. And besides, didn't Phil recently say:

"When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a tonne of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward," he told Protocol, a new technology news website.

"That's not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position."

[Ambrose Burnside]

A mini Game Gear so small it's all-but unusable.

Sega are indeed fucking with us.

[Madmya]

Is that what it actually is or just what you think?

[flipswitch]

Game Gear Micro

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To mark the company’s 60th anniversary, Sega has decided to take one of its most notorious systems and re-release it in micro form. It’s not the Dreamcast or the Saturn, though; rather, it’s the handheld Game Gear.

[Deef]

Toto posted online: "4,980 yen will most likely translate to US$50 and €50 in the West. This is (probably) not the scoop that was teased for this week's Famitsu. They reported first, but in a news article, not the column of the journo in question (where the "huge scoop" is expected to drop)."

So it's uncertain if that's the big news... big yawn if it is. Indeed it looks pointlessly, stupidly small.

[Mavy]

and 4 different versions with 4 different sets of 4 games. Stingy?

[Madmya]

So with games like Yakuza finally coming onto Microsoft and on to Game Pass.. are we going to get Sega Series X for Asia? A partnership with Microsoft where they become the hardware name for Asia and a exclusive publisher with Microsoft to be able to create new SEGA IP?

If so.. that fuck me what a win. Without their own hardware it means they haven't been able to do anything risky since the Dreamcast but I think my idea here would shake the gaming world. I'm not talking that SEGA is purchased by Microsoft but a partnership with SEGA appearing as the console hardware to get going in Japan market as well as to create as if they own the hardware without the risk.

Bookmark it.. I've solved the riddle.

[t0mby]

Game Gear micro? Wtf gave this the green light?

[F for Fake]

Wait, why did we even think it was going to be a Sega branded xbox?

Oh yeah,

Sega and MS partnering up again, Sega don't have the resources to build a top end console, MS have branding problems in Japan and Sega IP could help in that region.

Sounds like a perfect marriage. Not the first time they've done a collaboration like this, remember windows CE on Dreamcast.

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[unfnknblvbl]

Game Gear Micro. Anybody feeling nostalgic about the Game Gear is definitely going to need glasses to see what's on that screen. Jesus.

[Rorschach]

That can't be it. The big 'reveal' is tomorrow in Famitsu.

[stanard]

Cloud gaming via arcade machines. In Japan.

"FOG" gaming.

[Froggy]

A game gear mini.. I can see the appeal as it will be cheap to make and might make some coin after the mini MD but I am hanging on to my theory until Famitsu comes out.

[Ambrose Burnside]

I believe the Sonic Cycle pic is appropriate here. Mega Drive Mini was meant to be pretty cool though.

Unusable Game Gear you need to buy four of to get all 16 (lol) games and cloud arcade gaming in Japan only. Oh dear. Poor Froggy is like a battered housewife.

[Peppermint Lounge]

Apparently Sega will sell a screen magnifier as a separate accessory to assist its aging gen X fans to see the 240×180 display.

[lestat]

The rumors for this, completely wrong. So much disappoint.

[Mavy]

I wonder if MS are looking at this and going...’Hey that’s not such a bad idea....’

[Rorschach]

That was a huge letdown. Great for Japan where there are arcades everywhere but meaningless outside of the home islands

[unfnknblvbl]

I believe the Sonic Cycle pic is appropriate here. Mega Drive Mini was meant to be pretty cool though.

The Megadrive Mini is extremely cool, especially when you add your own ROMs!

[Froggy]

FUCK

[Madmya]

The disappointment is real.