Author Topic: Segas big announcement (Read 6472 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

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