New Sega Handheld in 2005?
Well thanks for having me and I didn’t mean for my first post to be such a fluffy rumor but here goes. According to sources deep within E3 this year Yuji Naka, of Sega Japan, unveiled a new game machine to shocked games industry representatives at a Sega E3 press briefing. Their new creation (code-named ‘Prometheus’) Sega has decided to enter the portable gmaing market, although they claim they are not attempting to directly compete with either Sony or Nintendo. ‘Prometheus’ is instead being billed by Sega as “the videogame equivalent of the iPod”…. Are these pics fake or not? You decide. And what does “The Beast is Back” mean?
The similarities do not end there, however: rather than purchasing games from their local GameStop, gamers will download ‘Prometheus’ titles (called ‘gamebits’) from a special Sega online service which, Sega said, will operate in a similar way to Apple’s iTunes software. With the use of a supplied USB cable (also white) users may then transfer up to twenty ‘gamebits’ on to their ‘Prometheus’ system’s 15GB hard drive for play any time, any place.
The ‘Prometheus’ is supposedly the same width as a CD case, and half the height. It will operate on a rechargeable battery (as yet unconfirmed as being lithium) which Sega say will last up to twenty hours. In a surprising move, in order to conserve battery power, the ‘Prometheus’ screen will not be backlit: a decision which we believe likely to alienate many gamers, and one inexplicable in lieu of recent technological developments which should negate such problems.
Nevertheless, with the power, according to Sega, of “the Dreamcast, plus a little extra”, and a genuinely innovative and cost-effective approach to game distribution, the ‘Prometheus’ certainly shows promise - and if the jubilant cheers and applause from the assembled journos are anything to go by, Sega’s return to hardware is more than welcome. Sorry I don’t have an offical link to this or any pics but we are working on that. This was sent in by our reader Bullitt over at the CC.
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Those pics are beyond fake. For one, they were released into the wild *before* E3 in anticipation of (the disappointing) SEGATON announcement. You know, the one where people were speculating that SEGA mmight be releasing an Atomiswave console… or something equally asinine.
How that rumour with this fake image evolved into a new portable rumour is beyond me.
I would assume that:
And what does “The Beast is Back” mean?
would be related to the new Altered Beast game.
hi!!!
first and foremost i’m a gamer
and if sega has new gaming device coming out..i’m getting
it. just like i’m going to get
the ds,psp,gizmondo, and the
new phantom console that’s
supposed to be coming out. i’m
a videogame collector. bring’em
all on!!! all of this is good
for the videogame industry…i
bet you we won’t have to worry
about another videogame crash
like in 1984.the videogame
entertainment business is here to stay.
hey guy - welcome to the site. I’m not counting on sega bringing out a system any time soon. As much as I really want them to. The portable market is just to crowded right now.
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Interesting article. Thanks for posting it!