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I think all of your heads are going to explode when you read this.
Second article down..
Present and Future
With the Nintendo Wii hitting retail and gaining worldwide superstardom of the likes never witnessed SEGA SAMMY once again immediately got to work on another system with orders from the boss himself Satomi-san. This system shall be a HD casual console and is designed to compete with the successor to the Wii. The design of the system FGN can officaly confirm was finalised in late 2008, it's arcade variant goes by the name "RINGEDGE" the specifications of the system are as follows.
The chosen CPU is the Intel Pentium E2160 Allendale 1.8GHz Dual-Core Processor, the GPU of choice is the Shader Model 4.0 compliant 9600GSO with 384 MB GDDR3 RAM, System memory measuring 1GB DDR2-800. Other features include an onboard HD audio DSP, 32GB SSD, standard DVD, and WiFi connectivity. SEGA SAMMY plans on shipping the system with two controllers, a motion sensing remote and one which looks similar to the Saturn 3D controller. One for casual gaming the other for non-casual. To top this off SEGA SAMMY shall be using a stripped down version of Microsoft's Windows Embedded Standard 2009 for ease of development. This particular version differs from the standard version where only the DirectX functionality is included, the standard edition costs $90 per shipping device. As SEGA SAMMY's version doesn't include the non gaming features SEGA SAMMY has managed to get a hold of the OS for less than half of that cost.
SEGA SAMMY plans on launching the system in time for the holiday season of 2010 for no less than $200 and no more than $250. The company doesn't plan on publically acknowledging the project this year, thus an official announcement won't take place until 1H 2010.
Stay tuned for part 2 of our world exclusive where we shed light on SEGA SAMMY's consumer plans for the "RINGWIDE"
Quote form re5: " Mostly they're just rumours, visions of a doomsday project"
This is all bullshit in my opinion sega sammy holdings is in no position of launching a console, heck they are losing money over and over they have NO PROFITS, it's not not feasible.
Guess we jus have to wait and see. One problem that I have is why would they release new Arcade hardware in the states when the Arcades have been dead here for over a decade?
"Gaps do not get filled by ignoring them"
"Well, see these men follow no man but me......and I follow no man at all." (KRULL)
The ringedge is Sega's more powerful next gen arcade variant. These people aren't with the times or just making it into a fantasy. Unless Sega decided to market it as a home console too? I doubt it.
They have the specs mixed up too, they are all backwards. They mention the ringwide at the end too, which one do they mean? Lol!
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