Author Topic: Segas big announcement (Read 6526 times)

Pikkcuber · « **on:** April 29, 2004, 05:04:23 PM »

Rumor(from a trusted GC site) has it that sega has a suprise that "we wont be able to guess" planned for E3. I know they said we cant guess but what do you guys think it might be? A possible return to the hardware business,with Game Gear2 or something like this. It cant be simply another sonic game because that would not be worth of all the hype they are giving it. Will it even be on the GC if it is software will be another question. So what do all of you guys think of this?

Shift Key · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2004, 06:19:23 PM »

I think I want to see a link first. There have been so many rumours regarding Sega's future (not recently, but I can remember at one stage Nintendo or Microsoft were going to buy them out) that I want announcements now, not rumours.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2004, 10:25:29 PM »

1up article about announcement of the announcement.. This is the most legitimate source I've found/ I guess we'll know more in a week or so...

Uncle Rich AiAi · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2004, 12:15:33 AM »

My crystal ball tells me the announcement will be about a new NiGHTS game, exclusive for the Phantom!

Ian Sane · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2004, 07:41:12 AM »

I have a feeling this announcement is not going to benefit Cube owners in any way. It's probably something that would be really sh!tty from our perspective like Sega being bought by MS or Sony. Or Sega leaving the business to make pachinko machines.

If it's just a game announcement I'm going to consider it a disappointment. A mere game announcement is nothing that sould be described as "BIG news you'd NEVER guess."

Maybe it's the idea I suggested in Fast Forward.

Rich · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2004, 01:01:08 PM »

I think it will bigger then a game announcement but I also don't think it will be good for Gamecube owners in any way. I wouldn't be to suprised if they announce that they made a deal with Microsoft with the ESPN sports line up since MS recently stopped making them.

Then agian there are already screens on the net so my idea is probably wrong.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #6 on:** April 30, 2004, 01:31:46 PM »

Considering it's something we would never guess, I'm going to say it has something to do with Nintendo...

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #7 on:** April 30, 2004, 01:39:27 PM »

It's probably Sega's version of megat0n- aka Never Happening.

Mario · « **Reply #8 on:** April 30, 2004, 10:13:56 PM »

Segaton.

I have a gut feeling it's Nintendo related. In the good way.

ThePerm · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2004, 10:35:53 PM »

lol you act like you inveted the word Segaton...but i said it in the EZ-Boards!

Mario · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2004, 10:37:21 PM »

I don't remember that...

Everyone's heard the word Segaton before anyway.

Uncle Rich AiAi · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2004, 10:46:31 PM »

I can't wait for SEGATON!

Unlike the banned word, this one has a date, May 12.....bring it on!

ThePerm · « **Reply #12 on:** May 01, 2004, 08:28:03 AM »

yeah i invented it, i wish the wayback machine kept forum posts......i guess it does keep some forum archives....but not a detailed account

old forum post!

well ill have to search..but i did invent the phrase!

Even Older

Pikkcuber · « **Reply #13 on:** May 01, 2004, 05:55:24 PM »

This was posted on a nintendo site, so im thinking sega might have gave alittle hint to the producers of the web site that it will affect nintendo. Maybe its bringing its sega sport lineups to the cube, that would be the day(I played my nba2k2 disk until it wouldnt work because it had to many scratchs,and i would kill for a college basektball game that doesnt cost 80 bucks on ebay). But proably not maybe its a new direction for sonic. If they would just combine there sucess in sonic heroes and battle 2 they would have an awesome game. Or maybe there doing the mega man thing and bringing sonic into an rpg ish game. Im predecting a new direction for sonic.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 02, 2004, 04:17:48 PM »

I was looking around on Slashdot.org and they were talkin about the Big Anouncement and what it could possibly be when I ran across this post on their forum

Forum post

Basically talking about how SEGA announced a collaboration with book writer Michael Crichton back in 2002
and made mention of the game that they were working on back in 2003.
Could this game be their big annoucement? The game supposedly still hasn't been officialy annouced.

links provided in post:
http://www.gamers.com/news/1242927
http://www.gamers.com/news/1413594

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 03, 2004, 01:06:56 PM »

New news on this topic is that the Big SEGA annoucement may be in conjunction with a newly annouced Big SAMSUNG announcement that is to take place at 3:30 on May 11th @ E3.

It was mentioned in an E3 press release that I'm sure PGC has received among other gaming related sites

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #16 on:** May 03, 2004, 01:11:25 PM »

Sega's announcement is the 12th...So if anything, Samsung's announcement would have a greater chance dealing with Nintendo... O_o

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #17 on:** May 03, 2004, 07:26:02 PM »

This info of the Samsung came from someone on a different forum claiming to be working for SEGA. He left the samsung tidbit as a hint as to what the SEGA annoucement was relating to.
Whether or not he works for SEGA has yet to be determined, but until he is proven right or wrong, I neither take it as fact or fiction, just as rumor.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 09, 2004, 11:07:56 PM »

unconfirmed: SEGA-Ton Revealed!!!!!
SEGA's 'Explosive', 'Surprise' announcement is that they are to publish the 'MATRIX ONLINE'

Picture of E3 banner

edit: typo

Shift Key · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2004, 02:23:37 AM »

That does seem to fit in with what we already know (read: its something), but its not what I'd call a "big annoucement."
And that's so damn blurry it could be just random blue letters, not SAAAYGAAAH.

jasonditz · « **Reply #20 on:** May 10, 2004, 05:35:03 AM »

Sega is co-publishing Matrix Online.

The "big" announcement is supposed to be on the 12th though, so I doubt that was it.

EatChildren · « **Reply #21 on:** May 10, 2004, 06:03:12 AM »

This Matrix Online + Sega crap is not the big announcment.

The people (such as gcadvanced.com) that take pictures like this, dont you think they would post news like "Sega Logo on bottom of Matrix Online poster" instead of just taking a picture and leaving it at that?

Dont forget too, this is hardly a big announcement or something to get uber excited over. Seriously:
"We at Sega are co-publishing Matrix Online!!!"
Its not exciting and it means jack to GCN owners, as we all know nothing online is comming to the GCN any time soon, expecially something as big as this.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #22 on:** May 10, 2004, 06:08:31 AM »

But this is also Sega we are talking about...

Ian Sane · « **Reply #23 on:** May 10, 2004, 06:26:44 AM »

"Its not exciting and it means jack to GCN owners"

I'll admit that's not very exciting but why does the big announcement have to mean anything to Cube owners? There was no promise of it being Cube related.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 10, 2004, 10:02:08 AM »

thats also why i put a '?' next to 'SEGA-Ton revealed', cause I am not sure if that is the BIG announcement or just an unrelated one.

As far as big announcement go, if that is it then everyone may really be dissapointed if they got their hopes up. Definatley not what most(if any) were expecting.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5089557

edit: added news article

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #25 on:** May 10, 2004, 10:48:39 AM »

"Whoa. I go online."

Uncle Rich AiAi · « **Reply #26 on:** May 10, 2004, 06:14:30 PM »

I wouldn't be surprised if the Matrix Online thingy is the annoucement. Remember, this is Sega. (but I hope not)

Ubi Soft pulled out of the publishing deal with Warner Bros.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:00:40 PM »

SEGA R&D @ Beyond3D forums says

Quote
Sega to launch new handheld device.

E3 2004 will surely be remembered as the year of the portable gaming device. With Sony's PSP announcement and Nintendo's DS unveiling, this year's show has already had more than its fair share of portable goodness - but Sega's shock revelation that it is developing its own device must top the lot.

However, according to Yuji Naka, who unveiled the machine to shocked games industry representatives at a Sega E3 press briefing held just half an hour ago, with their new creation (code-named 'Prometheus') Sega 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", and with the machine's pearl-white colour scheme it is obvious to see that the company wish to invoke the design-chic of Steve Jobs' ultra-popular music-playing machine. 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 roughly 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.

Expect more tomorrow at the official Sega press conference where we hope to see at least footage of several potential launch titles.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #28 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:11:04 PM »

If that portable machine is real Sega is officially a bunch of mush-for-brains idiots. After seeing the DS I think the LAST thing a company should do is release a portable. Nintendo is going to be dominating that market for a long time. Plus there's some REALLY questionable decisions being made in the design. Not backlit? Sorry that's just not going to cut it anymore. Dreamcast quality graphics are going to be invisible without some sort of lit screen. And the downloadable game structure is the sh!ts. So if my hardware dies I lose ALL of my games? And I can only own 20 titles at a time? F*ck that. The Prometheus sounds more like the Phantom.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:14:54 PM »

if they do it like the iTunes structure though, doesn't that mean that once you paid for something on your account you can download it anytime you want again there after from the same IP and account #?

or something like that..................

having 'PGC' server problems sorry if I double post

Ian Sane · « **Reply #30 on:** May 11, 2004, 02:38:43 PM »

"if they do it like the iTunes structure though, doesn't that mean that once you paid for something on your account you can download it anytime you want again there after from the same IP and account #?"

I don't know. That would be better but it's still limiting in that you can only get games while the service is supported. The SNES isn't supported anymore but I can still buy a used copy of any SNES title ever released. With this once the service is abandoned how do you get games? Piracy seems like the only option to me. Piracy also sounds like it would be a huge problem with this. What's to prevent someone from making illegal game downloads available from their own site?

At least with iTunes if the service is abandoned I can still get those songs on CD.

Rich · « **Reply #31 on:** May 11, 2004, 04:00:49 PM »

Is this real? How dumb DS is going to dominate with the GBA and the PSP will have a little influence.

I just noticed that all of a sudden that the portable industry grew from 1 system (GBA) to 5(GBA, DS, PSP, N-Gage, and Prometheus) in less then 2 years. and I still expect Nintendo to dominate.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #32 on:** May 11, 2004, 09:40:59 PM »

Third time's the charm, eh? Sega must love the pain.

"portable Phantom" is the best description for this. Only fed with downloads, "cool" design, a small player with a history of bad financial descisions entering a market that's already saturated...

jasonditz · « **Reply #33 on:** May 12, 2004, 12:14:25 PM »

I can find nothing off any news sites other than http://www.totalvideogames.com/pages/articles/index.php?article_id=5739

I originally was hoping Sega would release new hardware (I even bought some stock hoping they might), but a handheld would be a terrible mistake.

Uncle Rich AiAi · « **Reply #34 on:** May 12, 2004, 07:53:06 PM »

Well, GameSpot reported the so-called "Sega-ton" was about the Matrix Online publishing deal. Once again, Sega disappoints us.

Nothing to see here anymore. Move along, move along....

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #35 on:** May 13, 2004, 12:45:59 AM »

Pray to Reggie. He makes things happen.

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #36 on:** May 13, 2004, 04:31:23 AM »

It's Sega, what did you expect?...

Ian Sane · « **Reply #37 on:** May 13, 2004, 08:06:56 AM »

"Well, GameSpot reported the so-called 'Sega-ton' was about the Matrix Online publishing deal. Once again, Sega disappoints us."

This is probably the most disappointing announcement of all time. So they're publishing a game we all assumed was being released anyway? Who the f*ck would ever care about that? Even if there's someone alive who still likes the Matrix and is actually looking forward to this game they wouldn't care if the publisher changed. Shareholders and execs would think this is a big deal. No gamer would give a f*ck.

jasonditz · « **Reply #38 on:** May 13, 2004, 10:58:39 AM »

Hell, I'm a shareholder and even I don't give a f*ck.

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Author Topic: Segas big announcement (Read 6526 times)