rico001: actions and one statement.
Removed/delisted 74 games around 2 months ago:
https://www.polygon.com/news/475677/sega-classic-games-delisting https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/sega-dreamcast-games-console-mini/
no dreamcast mini for now
'In a conversation with The Guardian, Shuji Utsumi, the CEO of Sega America and Europe, confirmed that the video game giant doesn’t intend to release any more miniature consoles in the future. This means that the potential for not only a Sega Dreamcast Mini but also a Sega Saturn Mini seems to be nonexistent for the time being. As for the reason behind this decision, Utsumi said he’s more focused on the present and doesn’t want to keep looking to Sega’s past to chart its future.'
opposite pov:
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/sega-games-genesis-cd-earnest-evans/
At least some Saturn games have been ported/remade in past and are on pc/steam other consoles.... New Virtua Fighter coming...
dnovraD: These do not appear to be equivalent statements. I imagine that the Dreamcast and Saturn would be prohibitively expensive to emulate, produce, and curate a segment of Dreamcast & Saturn games owing to the quirks of their respective systems. Not to mention that you go from a game the size of 8 megabytes in 1993 to 600+ MB and then jumping up to 1 GB.
In other words, 10 Dreamcast games, curated and chosen would be 10 gigabytes, potentially. And I'd have trouble thinking of 10 Dreamcast games that owing to Sega's troubles, haven't simply been ported elsewhere.
Not to mention, owing to the fact that the source code of many of the games is MIA, anything resembling accurate porting might fly out the window.
But to a blunter point, why would you want to play games on a reproduction of the Saturn or Dreamcast controllers? They're not exactly dreams in terms of ergonomics.
Dreamcast: I think a raspberry pi 4+ would be to do it easily. So 150-200 dollars for 5-6 games. Saturn: I think the gamefly service had a bugs life or clockwork knight. On the PC Windows the games easily ran on PII 300 MHz if I remember... Could sell a Saturn one for 80-150 dollars probably 50 dollars to produce?-- Controllers would be pretty awful for both... fishing games worse. Might cost $20 or more to produce... They don't want to do it.
Example :Daytona USA deluxe special edition ran on a Pentium 90 with what 32mb of ram, Directx 5! wow. 1994-1996