Rumorang: Updated 'Dreamcast' trademark spurs Dreamcast 2 speculation

Saga Dreamcast 360

I just wish they brought Segata Sanshiro back. =(

It was precisely because they chose to "forget the multimedia shit" that people waited for the PS2 in their droves the last time around.

And why a 2.5" HDD in your dreamed-up Dreamcast 2? 3.5" disks may run hotter, but they're also cheaper.

Does the market really need a fourth entry? I really couldn't see any third party developers supporting it, after reviewing Sega's portfolio for the last 15 years.

Admittedly, the controllers could have been a bit more ergonomic, but the system itself was quite advanced for the time. I think that's the reason so many, including myself, put it on such a high pedestal. There are die-hard Dreamcast game fans, and while I really enjoy many of them, I'm more of a fan of the hardware itself, and its importance in the history of the video games industry.

The DC was the first major system to include a modem, in North America anyhow, which was used to implement online play and downloadable content. This also made it the first system to enable web-browsing. Because of the way some of its games were customized and allowed interaction between them and things like the memory cards mini-games, it was a sort of pre-cursor to modern-day user generated content; you could theoretically have a different gaming experience than anyone else. The system also had an internal, monitored, liquid cooling system, a brake on the CD spinning motor, and saw the dawn of well-implemented, motion sensing controls, with Bass Fishing.

Some of the loftier ideas, like user generated, and downloadable content, really came off as half-assed, but it's generally felt that these would have really been fleshed out if the system had more time to prove itself. A lot of people feel that the system would have been more successful if Sega of Japan gave Bernie Stolar more freedom at Sega of America, even though he pretty much suffocated the Saturn, but that's neither here nor there.

Either way, I hope that helps explain why so many of us have a fondness for the little system that couldn't.

Funny how history repeats itself, huh?

Sony works with Nintendo for a new CD addon, then splits and makes their own system, breaking into the console market. Then Microsoft works with Sega for their new system's OS, and goes on to make their own system, also breaking into the console market, hahaha.