SEGA has no plans to abandon physical media and still sees a lot of value in it

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Instead, they abandoned hardware.

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I miss my Dreamcast. Truly ahead of it’s time.

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The dreamcast still exists, you can go get one right now! And with the VGA cable, it really doesn’t look half bad on a modern TV. If your TV doesn’t have VGA in, I have had good luck with even cheap VGA to HDMI adapters. Go on, play Crazy Taxi again with the good soundtrack. Play Episode 1 Racer. It’s still awesome. Shenmue can still go to the arcade.

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I still remember plugging in my old school serial keyboard to the thing and playing typing of the dead. The two player is pretty awesome.

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I forgot about typing of the dead! Good times.

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And games they licence, even when the devs want to continue working on them.

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It really is unfortunate :/

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I have no idea what this means. They don’t make hardware. Maybe they can keep an CD press still running for their own published games, but what about when the PS6 and Nextbox don’t include optical drives? Do they start shipping read-only flash media?

Or is it all posturing to get praised?

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It means they will make a Dreamcast classic edition like Nintendo did with the NES

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is it all posturing

we still value our physical culture. Rather than completely abandoning that, we are currently challenging ourselves to shift towards being able to think about and act on the important aspects of digital in parallel.

Yeah. They are challenging themselves to think about the shift.

It Sony doesn’t make disks or the PSwhatever doesn’t have a disk drive… Not much to think about.

It’s a good message, but just a message.

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Or is it all posturing to get praised?

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a not to far off future where they obtain the rights to put all the old comics on a paid service while also making any new comics digital exclusive, thus disproving their alleged care for physical media.

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Sega doesn’t make physical media though……

Sony are stopping all PlayStation disc production. Sega can’t just make PlayStation discs.

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Lmao sega, go home, you’re drunk

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But they don’t make physical games

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so Sega won’t be releasing any more games on PS5 or any games on PS6 then? xbox, switch and PC only from now on i guess

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Of course… a dear craft… as a CD, tape, vinyl, cartridge, mug, badge,T-short, statuette…
To keep it closer to the heart…

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Not like consumers will buy it anyways.

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Sega wins the console wars by releasing a system with 16 layer bluray disks as game discs, i know it aint likely, but i can hope…

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Sega is slightly (not much) better at reading the room since they were humbled early in the console wars, but they still fucked up PSO2 for NG cause “open world” so dont be stupidity behind them.

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They’re still making Dreamcast games!?

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Was gonna make a joke that they were taking a bold step by starting up production of brand new games on Genesis carts, but bringing back the Dreamcast would be way cooler.

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Still won’t be surprised if they take and get the rights to be able to publish all the Sonic comics ( fleetway, archie, IDW, etc. ) comics on one single subscription app in the future. You know, just to prove how much they care about physical media.

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It’s a lot lf butt hurt linux users. I don’t endorse them.

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Of course… a dear craft… as a CD, tape, vinyl, cartridge, mug, badge,T-short, statuette…
To keep it closer to the heart…

Source

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slaps Daytona arcade unit

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