Will they ever get back into the console business? They have

>>380792948
They should test the waters and get developers' feet wet by at least releasing an SBC with some hardware that they'd be looking at using. Particularly more amateur leaning devs.

Several reasons:

1. Breaking into the hardware market is extremely expensive, especially if you don't have any exclusive gimmick
2. Sega hardware since the Genesis has pre-existing bad juju (except for the Saturn controller)
3. Their IPs aren't strong enough of sellers to convince millions to buy a console specifically for it
4. They already are comfortable publishing for the existing 4 major platforms

It literally makes no sense for them to try wedging themselves back into console hardware unless they wanted to burn money.

>>380792948
>I'm not sure why they don't do it.
because they arent retarded like you

software makes money, hardware doesnt .
why wouldn't they just keep selling their games on other platforms?

>>380792948
Microsft could partner with SEGA, and have the next Xbox be under SEGA's brand name. Microsoft could handle the console manufacturing whilst SEGA handle first software and partnerships, support, etc with third parties.

>>380792948
They should release gamepads. Counter against microsoft's sidewinder=>duke move.

They should release a new controller kind of like if they were making it for a new console - get creative with it.

>>380792948
I wish they would touch some more of there older games

I'd be happy with a new budget $15-$30 games of outrun or golden axe, or shinobi

and get the license to either something like corvette and make a set out made up sport cars specifically for a new outrun so it doesn't have to dissapear as soon as the deal expires

>>380793813
You think microsoft is that dead now?

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>>380794365
Because everyone is going to buy the Xbox One X for $500. It's not like they can get a slightly less powerful Xbox One for way less than that.

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>>380793395
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>>380794353
Fuck that pussyfooty shit! They need to release a new teradrive!

>>380792948
desu
I think the time where dedicated Videogame developers made consoles is over. YOu need to be a multi million company that has other fields like technology (Sony) or Software (Microsoft) to stem the financial risks of carrying a console, that is somehow competitive in terms of specs. Nintendo seems like to be a lone exception to this rule, but even they can't compete, because they just can't sell consoles on a loss, like Sony and Microsoft.

>>380792948
>Will they ever get back into the console business?
Why would they? Consoles are currently a terrible market to be in. Most customers will end up comparing you to Sony and Microsoft immediately, and given that both drastically undersell their consoles, it is basically a losing proposition unless you have several billion in the bank.

Plus, most of the current audience wasn't even alive when Sega was making consoles.

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Apologize to the Dreamcast.

>free online
>free dlc
>great exclusives such as power stone, soul calibur, and house of the dead 2 were available at launch
>sega wanted 60fps as the new standard for 3d games and many games were 60fps because of that
>was not overpriced at launch
>great hardware for that time
>tons of great fighting games
>tons of new and creative ips
gotta love all these fags begging sega to make a new console when most of them probably didnt have a dreamcast and had a ps2

>>380792948
Persona

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BUT THINK OF CURRENT GEN ALEX KIDD GAMES

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>>380796164
Under-rated post. The PlayStation and the Xbox were a fucking mistake. In a perfect timeline, it'd still be Nintendo vs. Sega.

>>380799272

Maybe things would be better if companies could only do one thing?

>>380800295
Probably. Considering the large input if CGI B-Movies we've had disguised as "games" since the sixth generation, it would've been better.

what could they offer that we don't already have? We have 2 redundant consoles in the form of Xbox and PS. We got Nintendo with the gimmicks and then PC for the freedom. All the bases are already covered.

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reminder if sega was still in the console market we would be playing with holograms by now

>>380792948
Why would anyone choose to make a fucking console when publishing on already existing platforms is way more fucking lucrative? The only people who can break even on the hardware itself is nintendo and that's because they own the nostalgia of an entire generation of americans

>>380794864
Sony survived the previous generation with failures like the PSP and PS3 even though the company as a whole is only barely in the black so it's not like being the weaker side of a generation will literally end you