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It’s really hard to tell what has been changed. Perhaps a slower showcase would have been better than a quick-transition action-packed trailer.

I love this. The Dreamcast was highly underrated and I love to see it continue to receive support this far into the future.

The mechanic of hitting rupees and hearts with your weapon to pick them up is from the original CD-i games. While I commend the port maker’s commitment to the demake, this mechanic was unnecessary to carry over.

I admire the dream, but let’s see if reality is as kind.

It’s a little hard to win when your biggest competitor keeps magicking new sales numbers out of nowhere every time you get close.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Never let a little failure get in the way of a good grift or you’ll never become president.

I’ll be interested if they’re going to do anything unique with the software side of things, or if it’s going to be just yet another ‘GAMER!’ Android skin.
Hardware hasn’t excited me on smartphones for several years now.

@Damo Procedural generation has its limitations. Working alongside generative AI could, theoretically, make it better. That’s what I was trying to get at with my comment.

I don’t support this use of AI, but I also think people are extremely negatively reactive to AI as a whole, even in cases where it’s actually useful and makes sense.
The horror game genre is one place where it could be a good use case for generative AI. One of the biggest issues with horror games is once you’ve identified the mechanics behind everything, the game becomes much less scary. This is something that AI can solve through randomly generated events and unique spooks; things that you can’t just point to the underlying game logic to demystify it. It seems specially suited for games that rely on randomized and tile-based events, like the Diablo series for example.
But I definitely don’t support it taking the place of skilled human labor, and especially not art.

I mean if you’re completely redesigning the game from the ground up and even changing the story, then I guess you don’t really need the original design documents or reference materials. It’d be different if they were doing a remaster, but the remake trilogy isn’t a remaster.

The design and placement of the buttons below the screen remind me a lot of the original 3DS. I didn’t care much for that design, and I think the design here feels antiquated, but not necessarily bad.

Honestly, if there wasn’t a disclaimer that AI was used, every single person should be entitled to a refund.

@Zeebor15 Then I am dumb and misread. My bad.

@Zeebor15 “Nintendo didn’t make a Genesis controller.”

Check again?
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/sega-genesis-control-pad-114295/

(Pedantic, I know.)

I misread “brought that rivalry to an end” in the trailer for “bought that rivalry to an end” which is actually more fitting.

One point of note, and this is from someone who has no nostalgia glasses for the Intellivision, is that the controller overlays are going to be a huge nuisance. Perhaps it would be better to have a cheap e-ink screen behind the inputs that could change to the appropriate game overlay. Something like that would probably raise the costs and thus price of the console quite a bit though, making it potentially infeasible.

Lastly, this is an unholy union. It would be like if Nintendo released a new Genesis console.

“This isn't the first time that EGGCONSOLE has run into trouble for the unauthorized use of someone else's software without permission.”

One more and they can redeem their punchcard for a free coffee (which may or may not be stolen).

@WhiteUmbrella
Thanks for that info. Just wanted to add that I finally received my email for this today. IIRC I think I jumped aboard a bit late, so the delay in receiving the email likely correlates to the order ‘line’.

This tickles the hardware enthusiast in me, but I’ve never been attached to the Atari brand or games. The emulation bonus is pretty cool, but probably not enough to justify it l when there are a multitude of better portable emulation devices.
It does LOOK really cool though.
I suppose at a glance, without having the hardware in my hands, the most annoying element to this is how they have the Atari branding in the UI right below the Atari branding on the hardware.

@WhiteUmbrella Same here. I put the $5 down on the Superdock preorder and never received a follow-up email after my order confirmation. I’m assuming they’ll send purchase links out once it’s closer to shipping.

If they want to.

Watch out, Italian Museum… SEGA is probably already working with local authorities to illegally raid and steal your property.

Now that the litigious comment seal has been broken…

I can’t wait to play this ga-aaand it’s gone.
(Jk, but maybe true by the time you’re reading this)

My favorite part of this article is how your described all of the terrible things the executives were doing and I’m just here thinking the entire time “huh, so they’re basically acting like every single company in 2025.”

I’d like to believe this will all end up with a lot of people in legal trouble for botched raid at best, actual cronyism at worst, but realistically I know they’ll all get away with it because corporation.

Well SEGA, congratulations. I was going to pick up the new Sonic racing game, but now I’m having second thoughts.

I feel like Atari is putting the cart before the horse here. They’re revealing and launching way too many hardware products when anything and everything under the sun (including a plethora of their own licensed products) can and does play basically the entire Atari library of games already.

What Atari needs to focus on right now is polishing their brand after it’s been passed around like a… well, best not to say. That comes in the way of putting their heads down and really focusing on delivering solid, polished SOFTWARE experiences to build up a fan base first. These aren’t the 80s when there’s little competition in the console space anymore. You need to do more than make a shiny video about some new retro handheld.

I mean do we really need 3 new ways to play Pac-Man?

It really feels like they’re trying to flood the market with Atari products, and we all know what happened the last time Atari flooded the market.