Novedades en hardware de SEGA??? (texto en inglés)

[el_taia]

- 05/11/09

SEGA SAMMY CONSUMER HARDWARE ROADMAP (WORLD EXCLUSIVE REPORT PART 1)

Today we would like to present to you part 1 of our world exclusive report in which we shed light on SEGA SAMMY's plan for a HD casual system in development since 2007 and scheduled for worldwide release for the holiday season of 2010.

History

At the end of 1999 SEGA held a press conference where they laid out their hardware ambitions and talked extensively about broadband and a whole host of future technologies. Shoichiro Irimajiri was stated here as saying that SEGA would strike back with a vengeance in the next millenium. By Spring 2000 Irimajiri-san was already tasked with heading the development of SEGA's next console, Irimajiri was stated as saying that it would be a joint venture with numerous companies because the future box would do more than just play videogames thus they had to partner with cable companies, telecommunication companies and Hollywood conglomerates. The aim for the design was a single chip solution measuring in at 250 million transistors ready for a Q4 2004 worldwide release. What is not known by the mainstream is that SEGA at this time was also in early stages of development for a 3D handheld which was to be based on the chip that went on to be known as the MBX developed by Imagination Technologies PowerVR division. The PowerVR MBX hit silicon in 2002 about the time SEGA had initially planned on launching a new Game Gear. This device would have beaten the PSP to market by 2 years. All of these plans where scrapped however by Isao Okawa who foresaw a software future for the company, the rest of the company however where vehemently against the idea of software only.

Fast forward a few years to early 2003 when Hideki Sato and the rest of SEGA's high level executives were desperately in search for either a merger or even a sale of the company. The discussions where being held with Sammy, Namco, EA and Microsoft. Again what is not known to the general public is that the reason for SEGA's desperation was that at this very moment SEGA had yet another system in development which had a worldwide target ship date of Q4 2005. This system would have competed against what went on to be known as the XBOX360 and Sony's PS3. The system was designed around a PowerVR Series 5 GPU and an unknown CPU, using standard DVD it was to be a cost/performance solution targeting a $300 launch price tag whilst simultaneously incorporating equal 3D throughput as the higher priced offerings by the competition. SEGA and Imagination Technologies on the 18th of March 2004 released a press release regarding the development of the chip for arcade use. Come Jamma 2005 when the world was expecting SEGA to unveil it's PowerVR based arcade board everyone was shocked to learn of the LINDBERGH which was basically a PC tower with an nVidia 6800GT and a Intel Pentium 4 3GHz Prescott. Whatever happened to the PowerVR based integrated silicon arcade board? Simple, the console that was to be based on the arcade board was scrapped by the newly formed SEGA SAMMY. With no console counterpart for the arcade board it wasn't financially feasible to spend tens and indeed hundreds of millions of dollars on integrated silicon thus SEGA quietly without telling anyone just took a mother board and slotted in components from a mid range PC from 2004 and called it "LINDBERGH". The PowerVR Series 5 whose development SEGA funded lived on however as the PowerVR SGX series of mobile GPU's. The Series 5 architecture was designed to be highly scaleable, low end parts for mobile phones and high end parts for arcade boards and consoles, unfortunately the world never got to see the performance of the higher end variants.

So to recap -

There was a next gen system in development in 2000 which was scrapped by owner Isao Okawa and there was a next gen system in development in 2003/2004 which was scrapped by Isao Okawa's friend and new owner Hajime Satomi.

Present and Future

With the Nintendo Wii hitting retail and gaining worldwide superstardom of the likes never witnessed SEGA SAMMY once again immediately got to work on another system with orders from the boss himself Satomi-san. This system shall be a HD casual console and is designed to compete with the successor to the Wii. The design of the system FGN can officially confirm was finalised in late 2008, it's arcade variant goes by the name "RINGEDGE" the specifications of the system are as follows.

The chosen CPU is the Intel Pentium E2160 Allendale 1.8GHz Dual-Core Processor, the GPU of choice is the Shader Model 4.0 compliant 9600GSO with 384 MB GDDR3 RAM, System memory measuring 1GB DDR2-800. Other features include an onboard HD audio DSP, 32GB SSD, standard DVD, and WiFi connectivity. SEGA SAMMY plans on shipping the system with two controllers, a motion sensing remote and one which looks similar to the Saturn 3D controller. One for casual gaming the other for non-casual. To top this off SEGA SAMMY shall be using a stripped down version of Microsoft's Windows Embedded Standard 2009 for ease of development. This particular version differs from the standard version where only the DirectX functionality is included, the standard edition costs $90 per shipping device. As SEGA SAMMY's version doesn't include the non gaming features SEGA SAMMY has managed to get a hold of the OS for less than half of that cost.

SEGA SAMMY plans on launching the system in time for the holiday season of 2010 for no less than $200 and no more than $250. The company doesn't plan on publically acknowledging the project this year, thus an official announcement won't take place until 1H 2010.

Stay tuned for part 2 of our world exclusive where we shed light on SEGA SAMMY's consumer plans for the "RINGWIDE"

- Zach Morris

- 05/13/09

UPDATE ON PART 2 OF OUR WORLD EXCLUSIVE REPORT ON SEGA SAMMY'S RETURN TO THE HARDWARE MARKET

Earlier in the week we provided you part 1 of our world exclusive report where we brought to light top secret details of SEGA SAMMY's plans of introducing a next generation HD capable casual console based around the RINGEDGE arcade hardware.

Next week FGNOnline shall present to you part 2 of our world exclusive where we discuss SEGA SAMMY's plans of yet another consumer hardware product this time based around the RINGWIDE arcade hardware.

Stay tuned.

- Zach Morris

fuente: http://fgnonline.webs.com/

Saludos!!!

PD: perdón que no tuve tiempo de traducir, pero igual creo que algo se entiende!

[Litium]

Para los no bilingues: Basicamente todo la parte uno es un recap de los planes de sega despues del fiasco de Dreamcast. Tenian planeado sacar una nueva GG pero la llegada de la PSP les aguo los planes. Bien, ahora con la nueva epoca de videojuegos SEGA SAMMY planea sacar una consola para jugadores casuales y no casuales (Yo lo adverti, todo viene por esa mano ahora). Si bien parece que vana sacar una Wii2 jajaja tiene pinta mas interesante. Sobre todo la variante arcade de la misma que tiene como nombre codigo "RINGEDGE" y tiene una 9600GSO como placa de video, asique esperen juegos monstruosos.

SAMMY afirma que la nueva consola HD de Sega se vendera en un medio entre 200 y 250 dolares.

Sera realidad? Sera mentira? Podemos confiar en una pagina hospedad en un .webs? Sera que el taia esta drogado? O esta haciendo juegos sexuales disfrazandose de son... no eso no.

Quien sabe, tendremos que esperar un añito para ver la yerba con la que "resucitan" los de sega. Asique los creyentes vayan sacando sus carteles de "Sega is coming" y los nintenderos saquemos el de "Doomsday is near".

[gercma]

Daaaa, vengo esperando esto por un monton de tiempo y tenian que poner la palabra casual !!!!! :@
Los sufro ya con la wii que mas quieren !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
habra que ver el año que viene que onda, si yo fuera sega, la sacaria en el 2012, y despues que alguien saque alguna consola, para evitar lo que siempre le paso a sega
PD: me la voy a comprar si sale
PD2: nos invaden los casuales!!
PD3: me voy a comer

[]/\[aldet]-[]

Para los no bilingues: Basicamente todo la parte uno es un recap de los planes de sega despues del fiasco de Dreamcast. Tenian planeado sacar una nueva GG pero la llegada de la PSP les aguo los planes. Bien, ahora con la nueva epoca de videojuegos SEGA SAMMY planea sacar una consola para jugadores casuales y no casuales (Yo lo adverti, todo viene por esa mano ahora). Si bien parece que vana sacar una Wii2 jajaja tiene pinta mas interesante. Sobre todo la variante arcade de la misma que tiene como nombre codigo "RINGEDGE" y tiene una 9600GSO como placa de video, asique esperen juegos monstruosos.

SAMMY afirma que la nueva consola HD de Sega se vendera en un medio entre 200 y 250 dolares.

Sera realidad? Sera mentira? Podemos confiar en una pagina hospedad en un .webs? Sera que el taia esta drogado? O esta haciendo juegos sexuales disfrazandose de son... no eso no.

Quien sabe, tendremos que esperar un añito para ver la yerba con la que "resucitan" los de sega. Asique los creyentes vayan sacando sus carteles de "Sega is coming" y los nintenderos saquemos el de "Doomsday is near".

Gracias por el resumen!

En cuanto a la noticia, me parece que 3 consolas por ahora son suficientes, con un surtido de juegos impresionante.
Mejor que inviertan en hacer el Shenmue 3

[policenaut]

Gracias por el link taia.

Bueno, de ser cierto, suena lindo y voy a ser de los primeros que estará militando en la linea de compra en la tienda. Lo que no me convence es el lugar donde ubican la noticia. Por qué no ubicar la noticia en megasitios como 1up, gamespot u otros Yo no usaría un lugar como webs.com para hacer tan magno anuncio de un comeback de Sega a la batalla de consolas.

Los specs suenan muy bien, un ssd de 32gb es bastante, los gráficos han de verse brutales, wifi is a must on this day and age, mezcla de arcade+casual=sounds very nice to me. Standard DVD? Puede ser algo mejor que eso pero si es por mantener costos accesibles puede que tenga sentido.

[onirico80]

Va a estar bueno si sale una consola nueva de Sega y mas si respeta ese precio casi seguro que yo la compro.

Mi humilde opinion es la siguiente

a mi la verdad que no me molestaria que saquen juegos Cassual siempre y cuando pase como con la Wii que salen marios , Punch out , Metroid etc etc , o sea si Sega hace su consola con Out Run , Daytona , Sonic , Street of Rage y juegos nuevos y copados de otras empresas me gustaria mucho aparte el mercado Cassual ayudaria a que venda mejor y se mantenga viva mas años .

El tema de los juegos malos en la Wii creo que los unicos que lo sufren son los que chipean y bajan juegos de la red porque el que tiene la consola original como yo y unos cuantos de este foro solo compramos los juegos que nos gustan mucho y valen la pena tener y encima compramos un juego muy cada tanto y disfrutamos mucho cada titulo que pagamos original , entonces es como que toda la basura yo por lo menos la desconozco.

Bien por Sega si es que esta noticia es real , sino con que siga sacando juegos buenos para las consolas actuales me alcanza y sobra

[Cloud]

Yo creo que Sega merece estar en el mercado mucho mas que Microsoft o que Sony, ya empiezo a juntar tonces, que grande Sega, ojala sea verdad, hace tiempo que quiero gastar dinero en algo que siento con todo el corazon

[MauroJK23]

sin palabras...

[figari95]

Ojala sea verdad, pero no me quiero ilucionar...

[Cloud]

Yo me muero, esto es demasiado genial, no se si sera verdad, pero para mi es la mejor noticia que me pueden dar, sega no tiene juegos casuales, Daytona Usa, Virtua Figther, Sonic, Vectorman, Ecco the dolphin, SOR, Comix zone, Nigths, Panzer Dragon, House of Dead, Virtua Cop, Sega rally, tiene juegos para hacerle el orto a todo el mundo, ojala esta vez suceda la que sega merece desde hace tiempo ya que siempre brindo a la industria de los video juegos lo mejor de lo mejor