The end of the dreamcast?

It looks like Sega will be halting production of GD-Roms here soon, the format of the Dreamcast, and the Naomi arcade board:

http://dreamcast-scene.com/index.php...uctionpetition

If this is true, then it looks like Trigger Heart Excelica (feb) and Karosu (march) will be the last official games to hit the dreamcast. The above link is trying to get people together to mail Sega and tell them how they feel about this.

So what do you think? Personally, it's been an amazing run, dreamcast games in japan from 1998-2007 isn't half bad. (sure the last few years have only seen a handful each, and of only one kind), but I thought it would be a good idea to inform everyone about this.

I was hoping Final Fantasy XIV would be Dreamcast-exclusive. I guess not. :(

Yeah, and at least one of it's five spin-off games for the VMU. I guess not, too :/.

GD-ROMs are also used in Naomi 2, Triforce, and Chihiro... seems a bit soon to be discontinuing production.

Look at it this way. Maybe they're proposing discontinuing support so they can concentrate on SEGAs next console.

First of all. -_-....nah.

Second of all, that sure worked last time....basically I hope you''re joking.

The Dreamcast is an awesome bit of kit and the fact it has survived this long is an awesome achievement. I hope you're right Elusive, a new Sega console would be awesome (in theory).

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Originally Posted by Elusive

Look at it this way. Maybe they're proposing discontinuing support so they can concentrate on SEGAs next console.

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Let the speculation begin!

I'm as sad to see it go this time as I was the first time it died.

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Originally Posted by Vyse of Arcadia

Let the speculation begin!

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It will be based on a modified multi-clock 680x0 32 bit multiprocessing setup.
It will have backwards compatability with all Genesis/SegaCD software but some games will end up with reduced slowdown.
System 32 video power at higher res.
Rock the 2D world, biotch!!! >_<

here is the next sega system ;)

And my DC is going in storage. I was hopefully get the last few games I wanted to buy today... but the damn ice prevented me from going out of the city.

I read about this on the forum at onlineconsoles.com; according to the site's creator, Lordnikon it's a misconception. Here's the post(s): http://dreamcast.onlineconsoles.com/...pic.php?t=7282

According to him, dreamcast-scene is only assuming that Sega will stop GD-rom production, but there's been no official word from of Sega as of yet. Just read the posts and it should paint a better picture.

Yeah, it wouldn't make sense, as it's the only thing that's hampering their arcade software being bootlegged to hell.

The Dreamcast was seriously wounded... but the soul still burns.

I still think sega will come back in about five years or so because it was sony who killed it sony now is strugiling a bit on there PS3 and lets face it PS2 will be coming to an end soon and psp is not in striking distance so what will happen is sega will keep an eye on the market and if sony doesant do as well sega will probably come out with a new system.

We can all hope that this day will soon become reality, but SEGA (or any company) won't release a new hardware at least until one of the current 3 runners falls out, and that will probably be Sony, but with the deep pockets they have it may be a while until they decide at all to pull the plug on the PS3. If by the end of 2008 the console is still running a distant 3rd like it is now then that could mean the end of the Playstation brand name.

We can only hope then that sony fails so the Dreamcast 2 may live

I think sony set themeselves up for failure I promise you that and without them sega will renter the market because sony PS1andPS2 both each sold over 100 millon units taking that dominant force out of the way sega therefor dreamcast 2 can be a reality.

There's zero consumer trust in Sega hardware support. Sega creating a new console would be suicide.

How would you know sony dident even give sega a fighting chance and thosands of people visit this site to see sega the demand for sega to comback is tremendus.

It's true, there isn't any. As fondly remembered as the Dreamcast was, Sega announcing any sort of new hardware (console or handheld) would instantly be met with waves of pessimism, skepticism, and perhaps even a wave of mutilation.

If someone told me Sega was coming out with a new console I'd as "Where is your mind?" [/lbandwagon joke]