MrSega wrote:How much does anyone think a high powered cost efficiant SEGA console will cost now in days?
What this shows is that SEGA goes through great lengths to keep any type of SEGA hardware rumors from getting leaked out.RiilihShimo wrote:I also have some news on this subject.
Today I spoke to Andrew Peggs from sfx-360.com and I asked him about the rumors about Sega. I have some what of an update. He told me this word for word "No there has been no leaks or announcements from Sega about a console" He also told me that he is not allowed to give out any information or he could be in trouble. I also asked about Sonics 20th, and he told me he does not know anything other then sonic game release for PSU. I have proof of this as well. So there is some what of information. I asked him more about what he thought of it and he wouldn't say anything other then "No there has been no leaks or announcements from Sega about the a console". So something is up and there is still hope!
If SEGA's next board indeed is non PC based, and Hitachi is once again commissioned by SEGA to build an original off the shelf CPU for the SEGADRIVE arcade board than a console variant for it would value around a simluar budget to Saturn when you comare the $400 million SEGA budgeted on that project,minus modestly high development costs and adjust inflation and value the budget would be about $800 million depending on the media format, if the console were to use flashstu wrote:MrSega wrote:How much does anyone think a high powered cost efficiant SEGA console will cost now in days?
Based on what exactly? Without any confirmed specs its difficult to speculate. However it would have to be priced competitively with the other systems. Probably $250.00.
Well .. Hopefully Haneda is right! I can't wait to see what the anniversary unfolds! =DMrSega wrote:What this shows is that SEGA goes through great lengths to keep any type of SEGA hardware rumors from getting leaked out.RiilihShimo wrote:I also have some news on this subject.
Today I spoke to Andrew Peggs from sfx-360.com and I asked him about the rumors about Sega. I have some what of an update. He told me this word for word "No there has been no leaks or announcements from Sega about a console" He also told me that he is not allowed to give out any information or he could be in trouble. I also asked about Sonics 20th, and he told me he does not know anything other then sonic game release for PSU. I have proof of this as well. So there is some what of information. I asked him more about what he thought of it and he wouldn't say anything other then "No there has been no leaks or announcements from Sega about the a console". So something is up and there is still hope!
From what Haneda has personally told me regaurding the Sonic 20th anniversary, he himself doesn't have a single clue, the Sonic 20th birthday title will be a complete surprise to everybody.
BTW,what's PSU?
MrSega wrote:If SEGA's next board indeed is non PC based, and Hitachi is once again commissioned by SEGA to build an original off the shelf CPU for the SEGADRIVE arcade board than a console variant for it would value around a simluar budget to Saturn when you comare the $400 million SEGA budgeted on that project,minus modestly high development costs and adjust inflation and value the budget would be about $800 million depending on the media format, if the console were to use flashstu wrote:MrSega wrote:How much does anyone think a high powered cost efficiant SEGA console will cost now in days?
Based on what exactly? Without any confirmed specs its difficult to speculate. However it would have to be priced competitively with the other systems. Probably $250.00.
memory like N GALAXY and Xbox 3 are rumored to be then the budget may be even less around Dreamcast's $500 million. Judging by the uncomfirmed Kaldata souce, it would likely indeed be competitive at about $250-300.($270-320).
CPU has little to do with it LINDBERGH's successor would have to have a higher clockspeed preformance and more memory as well as more cores. Its mostly all about a large techinical leap and graphical processing that can lower development costs in the same way as RINGEDGE does while providing cutting edge graphics that are groundbreaking, the same way NAOMI did in 1998.comradesnarky wrote:The Ring boards haven't even been around for two years, and how do you think the Ring boards don't supersede the Lindbergh? RingEdge is much more capable hardware than the Lindbergh and Sega has said that the Ring boards were to be used to revitalize arcades.
Sega doesn't care about building a high powered board. They want something that is capable and cheap. That's exactly what the Ring boards are. RingEdge is more capable than Lindbergh and cheaper, and RingWide is cheaper than both and also plenty capable.
If you think that there's no PC hardware available that's a leap over Lindbergh in the past 6 years since it came out, you're crazy. The Lindbergh has a Pentium 4 at 3.0ghz, a 256mb graphics card and 1gb of RAM @ 400mhz. My laptop I bought in 2008 has better specs (Intel Core 2 Duo clocked at 2.0ghz, similar graphics card, 2gb of RAM @ 1067 Mhz, DDR3), and it was a completely stock model
If CPU has little to do with it then why do people ever need new computers?MrSega wrote: CPU has little to do with it LINDBERGH's successor would have to have a higher clockspeed preformance and more memory as well as more cores.
I'm going to argue against that one. Since Microsoft and Sony are in the business of making this a 10 year console cycle, it really isn't in Sega's interest to have arcade hardware that far outshines the consoles. On one hand, Sega is trying to revitalize the arcade business, so they do want to look better than consoles. On the other hand, that revitalization isn't going well and to maximize their revenues, they're probably going to need to do some arcade ports. It's going to take them a lot more work to port a game that ran on stronger hardware, which costs more money.Its mostly all about a large techinical leap and graphical processing that can lower development costs in the same way as RINGEDGE does while providing cutting edge graphics that are groundbreaking, the same way NAOMI did in 1998.
Fair enough on the release timeline, I just don't think Sega is going to be releasing a new arcade board, and if they do it's not going to be the quantum leap you're thinking it will be.Its doesn't matter if RINGEDGE is only two years old. Its not the official successor to LINDBERGH like I said, its a mid range board.Its not not out of the ordinary for SEGA to churn out a more powerful board just a couple years after a mid range upgrade. System 32 was introduced in 1992, just two years after System 24 and a full 5 years after System 16 was introduced in 1987. Model 3 came in '96, NAOMI, System 32's successor came in '98 just 2 years later and 6 years after System 32.
