{"id":16962,"date":"2018-04-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/no_sega_is_not_returning_to_the_home_console_arena"},"modified":"2018-04-09T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:00:00","slug":"no-sega-is-not-returning-to-the-home-console-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/no-sega-is-not-returning-to-the-home-console-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Sega Is Not Returning To The Home Console Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 17.37.04.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/no_sega_is_not_returning_to_the_home_console_arena\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/no_sega_is_not_returning_to_the_home_console_arena\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-09 at 17.37.04.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20180408-00000008-san-bus_all\">Yahoo! Japan<\/a>, Sega Games COO Kenji Matsubara got chins wagging by pointing out that the Japanese giant is considering releasing a new console in Japan &#8211; but it&#8217;s not quite what you think, or what some other sites have reported, either.<\/p>\n<p>Matsubara is in fact talking about importing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/05\/atgames_is_releasing_a_new_sega_genesis_clone_to_rival_the_nes_classic_mini\">AtGames Sega Mega Drive \/ Genesis Flashback<\/a> to Japanese shores, a licensed console which comes pre-loaded with 85 games and is capable of accepting original Mega Drive and Genesis cartridges.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are considering importing and selling the \u2018Sega Genesis Flashback\u2019,\u2026 [it] is built-in game software primarily sold in North America &amp; Europe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The catch is that the &#8220;System on a Chip&#8221; approach used by AtGames results in poor quality emulation; we recently tested the latest iteration of the company&#8217;s portable Mega Drive and came away <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/hardware_review_segas_heritage_deserves_better_than_the_mega_drive_ultimate_portable\">pretty crushed<\/a> by the whole experience. We&#8217;ve since been told by an AtGames representative that the company is working on improving overall performance.<\/p>\n<p>Sega can&#8217;t be blamed for wanting a piece of the retro action &#8211; Nintendo has scored two amazing hits with the NES and SNES Classics, after all &#8211; but it really needs to take the project by the horns and handle production itself, because we can&#8217;t imagine many Japanese fans will be at all impressed with the performance of AtGames&#8217; current Sega-based products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview with Yahoo! Japan, Sega Games COO Kenji Matsubara got chins wagging by pointing out that the Japanese giant is considering releasing a new console in Japan &#8211; but it&#8217;s not quite what you think, or what some other sites have reported, either. Matsubara is in fact talking about importing the AtGames [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}