MistaBuck wrote:Ok. Here's the dilly-o
Sega of Japan Is still fairly profitable. They're still making pretty good money off of games and arcade boards (I think... I'm not 100% sure)
Global company. Sega of America and Sega of Japan report financials as one company. This past year was the first time they were profitable in three years (it even says this in their annual report. I link it further down.)
They Are owned by Sega Sammy Holdings, A Pretty large Company.
They
are Sega Sammy Holdings.
Here are the reasons that Sega Has the capability of creating a New Console
1. Sega Still Makes Good games
Sega has a bad rep nowadays because of the "poor" quality game they produce. This is Sega of
America, not Sega Japan.
For Example, In my opinion, Some of the good Sega Titles of this Generation are: Sonic Colors, Yakuza, Valkyria Chronicles, Border Break, Super Monkey Ball, Anything from Platinum Games, and Total War.
With the exception of "Total War", All of them are produced, or developed by Sega of JAPAN.
The Bad Marvel Movie tie-ins are all Sega of America's doings
Good games don't mean you have the money to produce a console.
2. Sega Has The Money
Contrary to popular belief that Sega Does not have the money to support a Console system, They in fact, do
Like I said Earlier, Sega is owned by Sega Sammy holdings. They are a pretty Big Company. Back in the Dreamcast era, i could understand why Sega Struggled to keep their system alive. But now, they are supported by a larger company and (in my opinion), If Sega pitched a Console, They would have enough money to support it.
No, they wouldn't.
They have roughly $1.8 billion in cash. (Page 61, final row) Consider that Microsoft spent $500 million marketing the Kinect, a $150 add-on, in North America
alone. (Source on that)
3. Sega Has the Want for a Console
This one is pretty suggestive, but about everyone who owned a Sega console at one point or another would probably LOVE to own another one.
And I'm not only talking about the Dreamcast: I'm talking about the Genesis/Mega Drive, and the Saturn as well. It's the nostalgia factor of a Sega console that will drive them
SNK has fans that would like another console too....
4. Sega has learned from their past Mistakes
From what I see today, Sega Has Learned from their Past blunders.
and hopefully. they wont:
Release Stupid Add-ons (32x)
Release Consoles at an abrupt time (Saturn)
or
Release Consoles before the competition (Dreamcast)
They have learned from their past mistakes. That's why they're releasing software as a third party now and developing arcade hardware.
5. Sega Is capable of releasing state-of-the-art Hardware
As seen from their Arcade boards, Sega is still able to release up to date hardware to power their software.
They're capable of releasing it on an arcade scale. Compare manufacturing 300-400 arcade units (which can have wildly varying costs) to manufacturing millions upon millions of consoles which each cost around $400 to make. There's a huge gap in the capital required for an investment like that.
There are other factors That I'm not so sure about, such as:
Support From Manufacturing companies
Support From Graphics card and processor companies
Support From Other 3rd Party Video Game Companies
But I'm sure they will work out if the money is in the right place.
That support would be no problem if Sega had enough money to assure a large up front payment, but they don't. If I owned a manufacturing company, I don't think I'd trust Sega to be able to make payments on account.
To make a Long story short, I Really think that Sega Is capable of making a video game console that can compete with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.
They Just need to take the risk.
and without risks,
Their would be no progress.
See above.
I'm not going to touch that patents post or else this post would be roughly the size of a small novel.
However,
MistaBuck wrote:
the last one caught my interest
because
The system they use as an example
Is the DREAMCAST
and the fact the it was filed
LAST YEAR
As others have said, placeholder image.
MrSega wrote:stu is lying, he's actually known for flamebaiting and causing trouble whiletriying to debunk rumors by spinning facts with nothing to back it up.
http://segaleaks.wordpress.com/2011/03/ ... erization/
He has no facts to back up his claims and debunk atempts, just words, he's a troll.
Stu posted links to several examples. Those are
facts.
Not posting links to back up your claims (I'm not consider haneda a valid source since he can't back up his claims) would be known as
conjecture.
stu wrote:
From what I've seen as a visitor, it seems the moderators there are sick and tired of people posting fictional rumors as fact. It would appear that they have now taken a very hostile view towards ANY speculation or hypothetical discussion as a result, which is a shame.
What stu said regarding discussion being banned on the Sega forums.
See how deeply all of you guys are believing these uncited rumors and going so far as to declare people trolls when they're factually backing their posts?
MrSega wrote:
SEGA patents are known for being way too vague. Unless its been issued for use, most SEGA patents are very complex to crack and hard to understand, I suspect SEGA does this to keep all speculation under radar.
This is basically a patenting technique. If your patent is vague, then you can use it to defend against a wider variety of products. They're not covering anything up, they're just protecting their assets. Go and look at high value patents from any other company.
