Masami Ishikawa reminisces about Sega consoles

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/09/18...past-consoles/

http://img2u.info/ckgni/i/ge691786e.jpg

And no they're not working on anything new.

kinda short
i expected something longer and more indepth ( and that the damn 16 bit console was referred to as megadrive because thats what it was called in japan and every where else except the usa )

and if sega is working on a new console it will be another cheapass handheld with megadrive games on it

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Originally Posted by Pulstar

And no they're not working on anything new.

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Why not?!
http://cdn2.ripten.com/wp-content/up...shed-sega1.jpg

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Originally Posted by KitsuneNight

kinda short
i expected something longer and more indepth ( and that the damn 16 bit console was referred to as megadrive because thats what it was called in japan and every where else except the usa )

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Why would he call it the Mega Drive when speaking to American journalists?

Only USA? I'm a Canadian and I call it a Genesis

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Originally Posted by Obviously

Why would he call it the Mega Drive when speaking to American journalists?

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cause its a term he is more used to ?

Wait, wasn't that a Famitsu article?

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Originally Posted by Pulstar

And no they're not working on anything new.

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THIS. Pull your pants up, people.

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Originally Posted by azonicrider

Only USA? I'm a Canadian and I call it a Genesis

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US and Canada are so similar, especially with video games, it's common for people to mean both when they just say USA. It's easier than saying North America (NA can be interpreted as not available).

I don't really agree with that. Saying "USA" should refer to the United States. Not available is usually written like "N/A".

Nice initiative, albeit poor in length and content.
I'm sure that Ishikawa-san has a lot of interesting stuff to share with the public.

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Originally Posted by azonicrider

I don't really agree with that. Saying "USA" should refer to the United States. Not available is usually written like "N/A".

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...merica-pol.jpg

USA is USA
Canada is Canada
And America is a continent not a country.

SEGA'S NEW CONSOLE！！！！！！！！！！！！

Oh come on, calling the United States of America "America" is entirely valid and right.

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Originally Posted by azonicrider

I don't really agree with that. Saying "USA" should refer to the United States. Not available is usually written like "N/A".

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Canada almost always gets the exact same games as the US. It's not a separate region. Yes, occasionally there have been games with Canada-only packaging (with French and English for games that in the US had English-only boxes), and the Amiga CD32 was released in Canada but not the US for legal reasons, but otherwise, Canada is part of the same region as the US, so I can understand why someone would just say "US" instead of "NA". "North America" is the better term, sure, but if you say a game was released in the US, in almost every case, it was released in Canada too.

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Originally Posted by A Black Falcon

Oh come on, calling the United States of America "America" is entirely valid and right.

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Only inside US, yes.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

US and Canada are so similar, especially with video games, it's common for people to mean both when they just say USA. It's easier than saying North America (NA can be interpreted as not available).

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or it can be interpreted as *shudders* Nintendoage.

also, N/A stands for "not applicable" usually, right?