Sega has had a loss of a little over $500 million in 2007-2008 and has not had much success.Maybe its time for a Dreamcast 2? But Sega has never been the same every since Sony's release of the Play Station 2 (Japan March 4, 2000 - North America October 26, 2000).
The Sega Dreamcast could not compete with the Ps2. The Ps2 quickly decreased the sales of the Dreamcast not even 2 years after the launch of the Dreamcast. The Ps2 had a DVD player and their game disc were DVD-rom and had much more space. The Dreamcast had online capabilities but they were soon blew away by Microsoft's Xbox that had introduced Xbox LIVE which was a much better experience because it had The Halo franchise and the Tramcar only had Phantasy Star universe.
If Sega were to make a new console some things they would need to look into are...
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter believes the next Xbox console might be already dead due to Microsoft embracing Game Pass at $30.
You know the world is f’d up when Michael Pachter has given up cheerleading Xbox.
Wouldn't it be the case of Pachter finally agreeing with parts of us rather than we agreeing with him?
I remember vividly that back in the day when GP was introduced and shaped further, many of us were saying that it's a great service on one hand. But were also already skeptical, too, as to how Microsoft would be able to keep the service running financially in the future.
Or/and how it would affect studios and game development in general.
As of March 2026, I think we have the answers some of us anticipated back then, when it was still Pachter who had forecasted «100 million subscribers».
Likely the next Xbox will have a premium price tag so they have some profit margin on the low numbers they sell. We all know that the bulk of revenue will come from 3rd party sales on other devices and perhaps some from game pass.
And even Gamepass flopped. The end goal of Gamepass was to be hegemonic, to kill game purcahses with subscriptions. But that never happened. Game sales are still thriving, Gamepass' subscriber count has stalled, it's costly for MS and studios and its price is increasing.
The purchase of Activision allows them to hide Gamepass' failure. Not suprising that gamepass was removed from Nadella yearly bonus, they knew they would never hit the targets.
the tinfoil hat is on!
You think they spend 75 billion to hide that gp isnt doing well? XD
They totally didnt buy activision because they got some of the biggest and most profitable ips on the planet, but instead they bought it so you can't say online that gamepass failed!! that's totally the reasoning fr fr
I am not a Pachter fan , but I have to agree...who would have though. It used to be to sell cheaper hardware that is subsidised by First party game sales in the first few years until you can reach millions owning the console and by that time you can cheapen your hardware because the tech have been revised. With gamepass on everything and developers losing sales that option is now limited. With the onset of more options for games and developers going for Gass gambling FOMO style games and dlc consumers have become rightfully picky. Add that to growing hardware prices and escalating ram and pandering to society... it kills a brand. Most og gamers are gonna find you out and stay away. Put on the pressure of companies demanding higher revenue for sales, the poor developer has no other option to put a new coat of paint on a copy of another successful game. Innovation , what we are looking for doesn't happen a lot because the danger of failing could lead to budget cuts and them letting you go...so you play it safe and make a copy of a copy. Yes we get genres and types but 80% is the same game we have had for ages. So then because you are scared you let them put it on gamepass and you know you know at least what you get.
Nintendo announced Friday that several of its long-time partners, including DeNA, will sell off some ¥300 billion in company shares.
Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.
No, I can't afford another console.
Wait.. is this dejavu?
approved this topic, where the author can't even spell?
"A very good processer with a good grapics card"
we seriously need a quality standard for this site, pronto.
Dreamcast had announced it was jumping out before xbox released more over even before xbox live launched.
They were never blown away they were already out of the race by then.
See this post it will soon happen to the xbox
A post will be up saying does MS need a new xbox
They got caught up and outsold by the PS3 3 and a half years after PS3 launched
Xbox used DVD-9 while PS3 used Blu-Ray which gave developers more opportunities.
30% of xbox 360 were garbage while PS3 never had a similar problem.
The only thing Xbox had was the Gears and the Halo franchise while PS3 offerd a libery full of good exclusives.
The japaness market especially square-enix was on there ship but never trully supported them.
Xbox360 death came in 2009.
PS3 45 million sold Xbox 360 22.1 million sold.
MS lost the second console war they were in a row.
lose another 500 mil if they made another console probably 5x more than that actually. Sony has already put its sceptor down and been pronounced King of the video game industry.