Dreamcast:the creation of a Dreamcast successor

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Mia polli endiaferousa istoria,me poli endiaferouses leptomeries sxetika me ta sxedia gia ena dc2.pame loipon:

 

The Xbox book - pages 192-193:

 

'Another plan involved buying Sega, the maker of the Dreamcast console. As far back as 1998, Microsoft had initiated talks to acquire Sega. The companies already had a working relationship since Microsoft provided software for the Dreamcast, but relations had soured in part because game developers didn't use that software. Sega was in third place with its console was still losing a lot of money.

 

Worldwide, Sega had barely sold 5 million units as of early 2000, giving it a base far smaller than Sony's estimated 73 million units. Moreover, the older Sony machine and the Nintendo 64 continued to outsell the Dreamcast. Sega had launched dozens of games in the United States, but only one of those titles, a football game, sold over a million units. Sega didn't gave the financial wherewithal to stay in the race, and that prompted third-party publishers like Electronic Arts to support the other consoles instead.

By buying Sega or otherwise investing $2 billion in the company, Microsoft could acquire not only the Dreamcast technology but a lot of talent that it didn't have, like Sega's nine game development studios--which had consistantly created hits like Sonic The Hedgehog, key sports titles, and Virtua Fighter. Sega also had a hardware design group that crafted new consoles.

 

Shoichiro Irimajiri, who was the CEO of Sega Enterprises in Japan, said his company was surprised to learn first from other game developers that Microsoft was planning to enter the console business. He was angry that he hadn't heard it from Microsoft first. His complaints led to meetings to discuss whether Microsoft and Sega could work together on the next-generation console. At first, he wasn't interested in selling out to Microsoft because the Dreamcast appeared to be doing well in the United States. The Microsoft side was equally lukewarm to the idea

 

"Every time we looked at them, we thought all we wanted was the software," said Chris Phillips, who managed the Sega relationship until he left Microsoft in early 2000. "They weren't willing to sell just their software business. They wanted Microsoft to do a box that could combine the Xbox and the Dreamcast2."

 

Yet like a bad rerun, Sega kept coming back and getting audiences with Bill Gates. One of Sega's top messengers was Kay Nishi, a former Microsoft employee and the CEO of ASCII in Japan. Nishi had a very close friendship with Bill Gates. Whenever he came to town, he could get meetings on short notice with Gates. He used that influence to get Gates together with Sega's top executives, Isao Okawa and Shoichiro Irimajiri.

 

In some ways, Sega was appealing. Some Microsoft executives had their doubts about the feasibility of coming up with a truly killer application that would drive people to buy the console over other systems. Ed Fries, who had confidence in his own game group of 700 developers, opposed the Sega deal because he believed Microsoft could create its own hit games.

Irimajiri said Sega wanted Microsoft to make the Xbox compatible with the upcoming Dreamcast 2. Okawa also wanted the Xbox to run games made for the original Dreamcast.

 

 

Sega Confirmation

Sega is confirming a shuffle of the top brass. As speculated, Sega Enterprises President Shoichiro Irimajiri will step aside to allow Isao Ohkawa, president of Sega parent company CSK, to takeover. Ohkawa is moving into the hot in order to oversee a massive restructuring of Sega's development activities. The reorganization plan, originally announced in November, will split Sega's interested into a total of nine separate units organized by region and specialty. Irimajiri will stay on in a vice presidential role to focus on the creation of a Dreamcast successor.

 

 

Brief: Some very interesting plans may be in the works at Sega. Including Dreamcast 2.

 

The Asian Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sega is in talks to license Dreamcast technology to other companies. Also, Sega is negotiating with various semiconductor companies to to form a joint venture that would build an advanced chip to power the next incarnation of the Dreamcast, as well as other devices. The JV could open as soon as October of this year.

 

"The future game box will be an all-in-one, set-top box," Sega Vice Chairman Shoichiro Irimajiri said in a telephone interview. "In that case, Sega's role is one part of many functions, so we cannot do it alone. We need very good alliances or a joint venture."

 

Apparently, Sega is already talking to potential licensees, including automobile companies, hardware makers, and satellite-television and cable-TV providers. These talks have been confirmed by Mr. Irimajiri.

 

The AWSJ reports that Mr. Irimajiri traveled last week to the U.S. and this week to Europe, to meet with up to 15 companies to discuss Sega's plan. He emphasized that the discussions are preliminary and he declined to identify the companies involved. "Everything is still unclear," he said. It looks like Sega is approaching NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Philips Electronics NV; chip maker STMicroelectronics NV, who is making their own next generation graphics chip based on the PowerVR technology that powers the Dreamcast, and Imagination Technologies, the Company behind the PowerVR technology itself.

 

 

Chip makers are the likely partners because Sega hopes to build a complex processor for use in Internet appliances, the people familiar with the plans said. Sega appears to be looking to put many functions of a game machine onto one piece of silicon, making it easy to integrate advanced computer graphics into other products

 

 

ISAO OHKAWA CONFIRMED AS SEGA PRES

 

Sega has confirmed the swap of Ohkawa for Irimajiri at the head of Sega, although those sales figures make seriously interesting reading…

 

According to Nikkei, the Japanese business news service, poor domestic sales of Dreamcast are the reason for the decision, but rumour is already circulating that Ohkawa has been brought in to oversee something far more significant; such as the sale of the company.

 

The Japanese report also claims Irimajiri will concentrate his efforts on designing a successor to the Dreamcast, already known to have been in development for some years.

 

Sega failed by around 500,000 to meet its 1.1 million Dreamcast sales target for the second half of the year ended March. Ohkawa is to overlook the restructuring of the company, although details of what this will mean for the hardware future of Sega are still unconfirmed.

 

As far as the sale of Sega goes, these rumours are nothing new to the company. Microsoft is well known to have had talks with the upper echelons of the Dreamcast manufacturer in March, and fresh talk of a Sony buy-out has sprung up in recent weeks.

 

 

Irimajiri will now become vice chairman of the company, and will be concentrating his efforts on the design and development of a successor game machine.Okawa would be responsible for turning Sega as a company around, while Irimajiri would become Sega's vice chairman and take on the responsibility of developing a successor system to the Dreamcast.

 

 

It's Official: Sega Has a New Boss

And Irimajiri has a new job.

by IGN Staff

 

May 26, 2000 - Sega Enterprises has officially announced that Shoichiro Irimajiri will step down from his position as president in June. This announcement comes about after the company's third straight year of losses and less-than-expected Japanese sales of the Dreamcast console and software.

 

Effective June 1, 60-year-old Irimajiri will become Sega's vice chairman with current chairman Isao Okawa, age 74, taking on the presidential responsibilities while still retaining his chairman title. Sega has seemingly made no announcement regarding Irimajiri's new responsibilites, but previous reports suggesting that he'd be working towards the development of a successor console to the DC are in line with Okawa's recent comments that Sega would be working on its own in the development of a new system.

SEGA

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Απ'ότι κατάλαβα, η MS παίρνοντας το προσωπικό και τη γνώση της SEGA για τα video-games θα θελήσει να φτάσει στη κορυφή.

Αυτό το κάνει για το λόγο οτι προέρχεται απο διαφορετικό χώρο και δεν γνωρίζει τοσο καλά τη περιοχή των video-games consoles.

 

Κατι αντίστοιχο ειχε κανει και η SONY, εκμεταλλεύοντας της γνώσεις που πήρε απο τη ΝINTENDO με αποτέλεσμα τη δημιουργία του Playstation!

 

Aν δεν το γνωρίζετε, η SONY είχε συνεργαστεί με τη Νιντεντο ώστε να φτιάξει ένα εξωτερικό αντάπτορα/CD-ROM για το SNES. Tελικά η συνεργασία δεν πραγματοποιήθηκε αλλά η SONY εμπλουτίστηκε με πολλές γνώσεις για το αντικείμενο.

[Daredevil]

lol gia thn akribeia:

 

In addition to the CD-ROM add on, Sony would release a combination Super NES/CD-ROM system in one unit, which would have been called the "PlayStation". Initially, Nintendo's abandonment of the joint project caused Sony to consider halting their research, but ultimately the company decided to use what they had developed so far and make it into a complete, stand alone console. This led to Nintendo filing a lawsuit claiming breach of contract and attempted, in U.S. federal court, to obtain an injunction against the release of the PlayStation, on the grounds that Nintendo owned the name. The federal judge presiding over the case denied the injunction, although Sony did pay Nintendo some royalties for the use of the "PlayStation" name.

 

oute to onoma den alla3an

 

pantws gia mena to xbox360 mporei na xarakthristei ws DC2

[dreamdok]

Αθάνατο dreamcast , είμαι πολύ παλιός στα games- εποχή spectrum, Amiga….- το μηχανάκι αυτό το λάτρεψα όμως το μοντεμακη 33 kbps !!! προπομπός του LIVE δεν νομίζετε ?

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genika to dc propompos tou xbox

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Δεν εχει καμια σχεση το Dreamcast με το xbox,

αρκετοι φαν της sega πιστευουν το αντιθετο βεβαια(για μενα κακος τελικα).

μπορω να πω οτι αρχικα το πιστεψα και εγω αυτο το παραμυθι...

και πως να μην το πιστεψω βλεποντας να κυκλοφορουν στην αρχη παιχνιδια οπως shenmue 2 και Panzer dragon orta,αλλα μετα ειδα παιχνιδια οπως virtua tennis,crazy taxi και φυσικα virtua fighter στο ps2 και μαλλον αλλαξα γνωμη...αλλωστε περισσοτερα παιχνιδια Ιαπωνικης ''προελευσης''(οπως αλλωστε και τα ειδη των games που ειχαν οι κονσολες της sega) στο ps2 τα ειδα και οχι στο xbox.

Τεσπα για να κλεισω θα πω οτι οι φαν της θα πρεπει να συνειδητοποιουμε σιγα

σιγα οτι η sega δεν βγαζει πλεον κονσολες και μια συνεργασια που εγινε με την ms για το DC δεν σημαινει οτι το xbox ειναι το DC2 η το 360 το DC3...

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exei k para exei.psaksou ligou na matheis kalitera.den eipame oti i sega pige me tin ms 100%..

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Ειχε σχεση οσον αφορα την συνεργασια της ms για DC,πιστεψε με εγω πρωτος απο ολους εβλεπα ''DC2'' το xbox,αλλα μου απεδειξε οτι δεν ειναι.

Τεσπα,αυτη ειναι η γνωμη μου.

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edw den xwra i gnwmi tou kathenos.einai gegonota.ama diabaseis kala tha katalabeis ti skopo exei to topic.

den einai skopos tou na anadeiksei to xbox ws dc2.alla oli tin diergasia gia mia pithani eleusi tou dc2 prin kapoia xronia.einai gnwsto allwste oti ginan metakomiseis(se proswpiko) apo tin sega pros ms,prin tin eksagora tis apo tin sammy.k apla ipirxan anthrwpoi stin sega opws o okawa k o irimajiri pou stoxeuan stin sinergasia xbox-dc2.istorioules pia auta

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δεν διαφωνω με τα λεγομενα σου,να σου πω την αληθεια δεν ηξερα οτι θα εφτανε σε τετοιο σημειο η συνεργασια sega-ms.

Απλα καποιοι φιλοι της sega βλεπουν το xbox,xbox 360 σαν το νεο DC,DC2 κτλ.Εκει διαφωνω.

Περισσοτερο με GC εχει σχεση το DC παρα με xbox

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gia osous einai akoma dreamcasters,i konsola tha dei alla 2 releases pros to telos tou 2006 me arxes 2007.to prwto einai to Last Hope k to deutero einai to streets of rage remake.

 

Last Hope

 

* Free 360° rotary protection unit for shooting and dodging enemy fire

 

* Six stages with checkpoints

 

* Four difficulty levels

 

* Handdrawn NEO·GEO style backgrounds

 

* Fully animated CGI enemies

 

* Superb video game style soundtrack

 

* Constant 60 fps with up to 4 parallax layers

 

* Lighting and transparency FX

 

* Smooth plasma FX

 

 

to streets of rage remake einai paragmatika ekpliktiko...

 

http://rapidshare.de/files/35135772/sorrsampler.mp3.html

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Shenmue 3 παιζει να δουμε xrest?:roll: αυτο με καιει περισσοτερο?8)

 

δεν παιζει....

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Shenmue 3 παιζει να δουμε xrest?:roll: αυτο με καιει περισσοτερο?8)

 

δεν παιζει....

 

arxika perimena to shenmue online.de kserw ti exei ginei me auto..:-?

sxetika me to 3 den iparxei kati dedomeno.mono o suzuki kserei k an..pantws eixan akoustei fimes oti an bgei shenmue kainourgio de tha legetai shenmue 3.alla tha kikloforisei ena game pou tha exei to 1,2,3 mazi.se mia istoria dld.to thema einai oti to game gia na kalipsei ta simerina dedomena alla k tin istoria tou thelei polli xrima kati pou i sega de diathetei.isws me tin boitheia kapoias allis etaireias na bgei kapoia stigmi..makari...:roll: