Dreamcast 2 in the works?

Stallion · 12-06-2007, 04:18 PM

Dreamcast 2 in the works? - VideoGamer.com

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SEGA Corporation has filed a new application to protect the trademark Dreamcast - sparking rumours that the Japanese publisher is planning on making a shock return to the console manufacturing market with the Dreamcast 2.

The application, sent to the United States Patent and Trademark Office's Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) dated August 13 2007, relates to:

"Home video game machines; player-operated electronic controllers for electronic video game machines; video game interactive controller, namely, hand held pads, and floor pads or mats; joysticks for video games; computer cursor control devices, namely, computer mouse; flash memory cards; video game software, computer game programs".

Web chatter suggests the proof is in the detail of the application - the original Dreamcast didn't have a floor mat accessory and the Dreamcast's Visual Memory Unit (VMU) is far from the flash memory cards we know and use today - although we'd say that the VMU is pretty similar to the modern day memory cards.

The filing could, of course, simply be a further effort from SEGA to protect the Dreamcast name. According to the USPTO the original Dreamcast trademark is still active. However, the two descriptions are very different. You can see the original trademark description here.

We've contacted SEGA UK for comment. We'll update you on this potentially megaton story as we get it.

Very interesting

Auyx · 12-06-2007, 10:12 PM

I really really doubt that this is anything its well known that Sega have tones of patents that they often refresh and to be honest it would make no sense for them to try and make another console for the following reasons :

1. They don't have the cash.

Sega may be doing better these days than in the past but they were hemorrhaging cash before and they have just got back in the black.

Plus look how much it cost Sony to make the PS3!

2. The company has been completely restructured since there console production days so any staff from that background will be long gone or will have moved to other departments.

3.The last time they had a successful console was the Megadrive/Genesis lets face it .

Stallion · 12-07-2007, 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Auyx

I really really doubt that this is anything its well known that Sega have tones of patents that they often refresh and to be honest it would make no sense for them to try and make another console for the following reasons :

1. They don't have the cash.

Sega may be doing better these days than in the past but they were hemorrhaging cash before and they have just got back in the black.

Plus look how much it cost Sony to make the PS3!

2. The company has been completely restructured since there console production days so any staff from that background will be long gone or will have moved to other departments.

3.The last time they had a successful console was the Megadrive/Genesis lets face it .

You dont need a lot of cash and big expensive do all machine like PS3. Look what Nintendo did. Cheap, affordable, fun and everyone wants one! Most importantly they make profit off each console sold.

Im in no way saying that this means that dreamcast two is in the works but you dont need to produce an expensive console in order to compete. Also maybe sega is teaming up with another company to produce consoles? there were earlier rumours of apple aiding in creating a console, and just for the fun of it maybe atari?

Anything can happen!

Edit:

This rumor has been shot down:

Game News - GameDaily - Updated Dreamcast Trademark Sparks 'Dreamcast 2' Rumor

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Sega of America PR Director Charlie Scibetta is currently looking into the trademark issue and why it was updated. In the meantime he told us that Sega "has no plans to get back into the console business," adding, "We're very happy being a platform agnostic company and have moved up the ranks the past three years from #11, to #9, and now stand at #6 in terms of our market share by units among third-party publishers. We like our current strategy and have no plans to change in the middle of this outstanding growth."

Auyx · 12-09-2007, 05:11 PM

I would love it to be real as much as the next man but it is NEVER EVER gonna happen. I would be willing to bet my left nut on it.