{"id":17424,"date":"2018-04-15T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/atgames_confirms_its_making_the_mega_drive_mini_then_deletes_tweet"},"modified":"2018-04-15T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:30:00","slug":"atgames-confirms-its-making-the-mega-drive-mini-then-deletes-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/15\/atgames-confirms-its-making-the-mega-drive-mini-then-deletes-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"AtGames Confirms It&#8217;s Making The Mega Drive Mini, Then Deletes Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"SegaMegaDrive-1024x572.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/atgames_confirms_its_making_the_mega_drive_mini_then_deletes_tweet\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/atgames_confirms_its_making_the_mega_drive_mini_then_deletes_tweet\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"SegaMegaDrive-1024x572.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yesterday, it was revealed that Sega is bringing its own &#8220;classic edition&#8221; system to market in the form of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/sega_announces_ages_for_nintendo_switch_mega_drive_mini_console\">Mega Drive Mini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A micro-console pre-loaded with classic titles, the system was shown off during an event in Japan, instantly triggering speculation that AtGames &#8211; a US firm which has been making officially-licensed Sega consoles for the past decade &#8211; might be involved. Shortly before the reveal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/no_sega_is_not_returning_to_the_home_console_arena\">Sega had spoken publicly<\/a> about bringing AtGames hardware to Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement, AtGames tweeted this message:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/atgames_confirms_its_making_the_mega_drive_mini_then_deletes_tweet\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/atgames_confirms_its_making_the_mega_drive_mini_then_deletes_tweet\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_20180415-164252_Slack.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>This tweet has since been deleted, which would suggest that AtGames jumped the gun somewhat. Perhaps Sega wasn&#8217;t happy that AtGames stole some of the company&#8217;s thunder by pointing out that it, and not Sega, is responsible for the product, or maybe the overwhelming negative reaction to the tweet is the reason; AtGames&#8217; systems don&#8217;t have the best reputation among gamers, and are plagued by poor quality emulation and bad audio.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/hardware_review_segas_heritage_deserves_better_than_the_mega_drive_ultimate_portable\">following our scathing verdict on one of its Sega products<\/a>, an AtGames representative got in touch to tell us that its 2018 Sega system would feature improved technology and features; we assumed at the time it would simply be a revised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/05\/atgames_is_releasing_a_new_sega_genesis_clone_to_rival_the_nes_classic_mini\">Mega Drive clone<\/a>, like the ones the company has been releasing on a regular basis for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Mega Drive Mini will indeed be a step up from previous licensed models, but the fact that AtGames is involved again this time around doesn&#8217;t do much to inspire confidence; we wish Sega would take Nintendo&#8217;s lead and create the software for this system internally, as Nintendo did with both the NES Classic and SNES Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was revealed that Sega is bringing its own &#8220;classic edition&#8221; system to market in the form of the Mega Drive Mini. A micro-console pre-loaded with classic titles, the system was shown off during an event in Japan, instantly triggering speculation that AtGames &#8211; a US firm which has been making officially-licensed Sega consoles [&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-17424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424","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=17424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}