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| Imaginary Sega Dreamcast Successor | |||||
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| I know it's virtually impossible to say, but with your best guess, if Sega was still in the hardware business (assuming they had the money to keep the DC going), what do you think the Dreamcast 2 would have? Powervr Series 5 & SH6 maybe? Or would they be going IBM & ATI like everyone else? | |||||
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| A hypothetical Sega successor to Dreamcast would not be called Dreamcast 2. If Sega didn't drop out of the home console hardware business, then Microsoft would have acquired Sega. The original Xbox in 2001 would have had Dreamcast compatible hardware.
Alternate Reality Xbox 2001 Specs Intel CPU at 600MHz PowerVR STG5000 GPU with 4 Pixel Pipelines at 200MHz SH-4 Coprocessor at 200MHz Main RAM: 64MB DDR at 400MHz (6.4 GB/sec) Aux RAM: 16MB at 100MHz (800 MB/sec) DVD-ROM Drive No Hard Disk Drive Sega CD and Saturn Emulation Master System and Genesis Downloadable Games Dreamcast games would be enhanced with 4x super-sampled anti-aliasing. There would have been many exclusive Sonic games on Xbox, including Sonic Adventure 3, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Smash, Sonic Kart, Sonic Party, Sonic Soccer, and Sonic Golf. The beat 'em up genre would have been revived by Street of Rage 4 with 4-player online co-op. Based on our reality, if Sega were to return to the hardware business within the next few years, the game system would be low-end like the Nintendo Wii and possibly a handheld. PowerVR SGX would be the first choice for graphics.  Date: 2008-05-03 | |||||
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