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[Kokoloko85]

- Valve can’t compete on hardware distribution

- Apple would be too expensive

- Samsung have zero impact on gaming

- Google already tried with Stadia

Not gonna happen

As long as its not Sega or Xbox trying again I dont care, no point them repeating failures again

 

[RetroGamingUK]

I don't think there is room honestly. Business outside of food and cars is mostly a binary world. Coke and Pepsi, Target and Walmart. If you want to be a 3rd brand, you have to be pretty unique or, just be the cheapo brand.

Xbox proved that there was really no point for them to exist. Xbox and PlayStation games are pretty much the same with just a different branding. Gaming doesn't really change if Xbox goes away. Sega doesn't have the money of Microsoft to make a high end machine and would effectively be competing with Nintendo rather than Sony. Could Sega make a Switch competitor and put Sega games on it exclusively? Yes. Would it work....

...wait a minute. Yes. I'd buy it. I'm all in now.

Realistically though, it would probably do a quarter of what the Switch 2 would do and that's probably not enough to keep them in business or make it worth it.

Yup, there’s so many duopolies out there

Coca-Cola vs Pepsi
Nike vs Adidas
iPhone vs Android
PC vs Mac
Visa vs Mastercard
Bowing vs Airbus
McDonald’s vs Burger King

Nintendo and PlayStation are very much the Coca-Cola and Pepsi of games consoles.

 

[Crayon]

They do not have the resources to do that in today's market.

 

[Azelover]

I want Panzer Dragoon Saga remastered. So as long as it has that I'm buying it..

 

[Physiognomonics]

The Dreamcast is an excellent console.

That and their first console (master system) was also the best.

 

[Sorcerer]

I'm sure it's much more profitable for Sega to be anywhere they can. How would the fans respond to all of a sudden having Persona, Yakuzza, only having future iterations available for one platform? It would have be a tough transition for Sega to ask all those fans to buy one more console just for those games. I guess you could get the kids on board with Sonic if you bugged the parents enough. But I am thinking the franhchises they have aren't strong enough to warrant a console. Come up with five more including killer first party Sports games then maybe.

 

[Parazels]

For a new console manufacturer the only way to become successful is literally to reinvent a game console like Nintendo or Valve.

A "traditional" console from Sega would be dead on arrival.

 

[Andeck Vee]

I'm waiting for snk to release the neogeo 2 with a focus on serious horsepower at an eye wattering price in line with the original neo geo

 

[Jigsaah]

Handhelds are the future. So no.

 

[chilichote]

I would think it would be cool if that happened, but I don't think Sega would invest so much money and take a risk that isn't really predictable. We've seen a few attempts to do it with inexpensive hardware in the last few years (decades?) and they were all half-hearted. That's why I don't believe it.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

YES

 

[SegaSnatcher]

Well that's one opinion and I beg to differ. To me it's actually one of the worst consoles out there.

Either you are trolling or never owned one. Anyone who actually owned one and played it understand it has a library of some pretty fantastic games. Its no PS2, but definitely one of Sega's best consoles.

 

[snapdragon]

Valve are more likely and if they start putting out single player games again than they can definitely give sony a run for their money

sega games really don't sell well enough to ship consoles on their own and I'm pessimistic about how critically and financially well the reboots are going to do outside of VF6, they should just create their own version of Steam, (that doesn't suck) capitalize on the rise of PC gaming and when the majority of their software is sold on PC then they could try putting out some steam deck like device but it would take them years to build that up