The 2011 E3 Expo Thread

[GiraffeeDreams]

Ah how I long for Shenmue 3

 

[Cameleon]

I'd love for Sega to do something like that. Hell, I'd love them to do what they did for the Saturn, "It's available NOW!". Not going to happen, but would be a dream come true if it did.

 

[Nintendo]

Maybe SEGA should surprise attack us by bringing a console out, out of the blue?


For example, SEGA would suddenly announce, "We now present you with...Dreamcast 2 and it will be available...NEXT MONTH!!!"...lol, we'd be like HOLY ****!!! Need to allocate money for this ASAP!!!

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

I'd sell my soul for that, Sega did do a new thing where they teased the new 'Ring processor' but it turned out just to be an arcade thing, there was mention of a portable but that might have just been a dream.

 

[Nintendo]

I'd sell my left nut for any official totally new SEGA console. :blink:

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

My soul and your left nut, surely that has to be enough for them to consider it at least?

 

[Nintendo]

Let us throw our penises into the mix just for fun.


On a serious note...have you seen these rumours before?


http://www.lensoftruth.com/possible-wii-2-hardware-specs-revealed/

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

All I'd really heard from all that was HDMI and Bluray, I thought Sony still had a premium on the format.


To be honest I'm just intrigued about the screen in the controller more than the console proper,

 

[Nintendo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

Bloody hell I'm behind the times, well that clears that up

 

[DaMummy]

My soul and your left nut, surely that has to be enough for them to consider it at least?

SEGA != Apple

 

[Jourdy288]

AND SHENMUE III!

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

Funny, we talk about this and a Japanese company go and announce a handheld Dreamcast going into production, coincidence? I think not!


Joystiq - Handheld Dreamcast

 

[Jourdy288]

Haha, when will they run out of Dreamcasts to mod?

 

[Nintendo]

Never! There will always be mods and games released on Dreamcast till 2000-forever.

 

[WizardStan]

A patent only lasts for 20 years. The existing Dreamcasts only have to survive another 7 years, at which point I'm betting there will be a resurgence of Dreamcast hardware.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Aren't GD-ROM drives proprietary, though?

 

[WizardStan]

Patent runs out in 2018. Anyone will be able to make GD-ROM drives. The mechanisms are well known already. Homebrew is all written to CDs anyway, right?


A future 3rd party Dreamcast will probably use a modified DVD player, actually. Shouldn't be too difficult for a company with the right resources to get a DVD player which can read DVDs, CDs, and GDs.

 

[Blue Protoman]

When you put it that way... But well-detailed hardware does not mean easily-made hardware.

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

That's part of why it never took off, the GD roms were surpassed by DVD very quickly, I imagine replacing the GD rom drive with a DVD drive and running the discs from a DVD would solve the problem, I'm not exactly a fountain of knowledge and I'm sure there are obvious difficulties with doing that.


GD Roms became obsolete way before their time and that's sad