(Apologies if this was posted already, but I searched and didn’t see anything.)
I think there’s definitely a niche market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games. Here’s hoping the rumor is true!
If it doesn’t eat at least 25 batteries an hour I’m not interested.
Portable modular nuclear reactor sold separately.
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Only problem is that this will be overpriced af. At that point, you’re better off getting an Android handheld and emulating everything for free…
I saved up and bought a Game Gear as a kid. But Mortal Kombat II eventually angered me so much one day that I smacked the front of the GG after losing to Johnny Cage. Screen went dark. No longer turned on. I mailed it to Sega for repair, and they sent it back saying nothing was wrong. Somehow during shipping, whatever I knocked loose got knocked back into working order. Magic console.
Sega got out of hardware and it’s probably the only reason they’re still around.
This shit has got greedy hubris written all over it. They’ve seen the Neo Geo revival and rubbed their little hands together thinking of charging $49.99 a go for Sonic the Hedgehog.
This is really not the right market nor economy for gimmick videogame hardware
Depends. If it’s cheap due to not needing much storage or RAM it could work.
market for a low specs/low price handheld for 2D retro-style games
Its called an android emulator.
Those who have the money would rather go for a real retro console
Those who don’t probably do not have the money to buy all those cartridges with only 1 game on them, and will just use their phone or pick up a cheap android tablet
And for the retro-modern niche there are emulator handhelds for very cheap
So, basically the target audience is people who:
- don’t have the money to buy a real retro console + games
- have a problem with emulating/ripping the games themselves
- want to pay full price for retro games (even if you take the price for steam, they are going to cost more due to the hardware
- don’t want any QoL like with emulator handhelds
They’d probably be better off just licensing stuff to Evercade instead of doing something themselves.
OK that would be nice but how about the master system mini pretty please? I mean it’s technologically very easy and get m.2 in again… The only mini I am missing. 😁
But honest 2c. A new modern but cheap handheld with software running natively would be awesome if it’s supported long term and open enough to be easily supported.
That Evercade looks way better, but $25 up to $50 for a cartridge is way too much. At $10 I would have bought them all (yes I know, licensing issues, etc.)
Nomad 2?
the idea is great however i fear that the library would be filled with low quality mobile like games they need to be extra careful to not accidently make a portable intellivision amico
I owned a Game Gear and the battery usage was insane, almost as bad as my Nomad. By then I knew to plug everything in to an outlet.
portable 3ft from the outlet.
also buying the car adapter was a must. My dad didn’t like it though cause he smoked.
Hey, at least you can play in your room where there was no probably TV, or in the living room if your parents were watching a show.
Remember the game gear had a tv tuner?
Haha, oh yeah
Oh snap! I hope it burns through AA’s!
This got me very excited, but with the source being “trust me, bro,” I better not get my hopes up.
I know… I’m in the same boat. Still though, could you imagine if they did?
Wouldn’t surprise me if the source on Reddit is the same guy on the article… Edit: to be clear, I am not suggesting it is! Don’t take it literally.
we need a dreamcast mini and new console, sega’s been on a roll lately
The steamcast. A dreamcast looking steam deck edition that comes with a new PSO in the same style as the original dreamcast era PSO. And a new shenmue-esque game.
Or a dreamcast 2… Not the Xbox 😁
