@jmposvip: i knowww

even being a dreamcast fan..please God let this be a joke

snowbeach024

this is exactly why SEGA has failed in the past...they didn't bundle STRYDER with it.

se.blackheart

Yea, good luck with that? Reason number 98 why economy is in the shitter, "Consumers are consuming, because companies cannot create a product consumers want."

MakGeek

I'm actually kind of impressed that it has an integrated TV tuner. Otherwise, it's a big flop.

alexmg2420

i just dont understand how the company can be so not consumer-minded. how could they not have hired some good designer?? how did that design ever get past EVERY. SINGLE. STAGE. OF. DEVELOPMENT?? i just dont understand how a company can spend considerable amounts of time and money and come out with such a lacking product in so many ways. it blows my mind.

jewsrock

IMHO, looks like Sega is just trying to cash in on the money cow... "Look, everyone else has a handheld..."

Barry32171

I was really excited when I read the title...

What the hell is that thing? LOL

Those knock-off chinese pmps look nicer.

Ron21

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

jewsrock

Sega you can do this better!!!

jmposvip

Just get one of these, a hell of a lot better:

[www.archos.com]

Kakkoister

Bad design and bad marketing. No.

ArrEmmDee

Sega does stand out and sound better among iPod, Zune, Creative, Sandisk. Creative? Sandisk?

Earthslide

I liked Dreamcast. There, I said it.

DannyTMurphy

The sad thing is, Gizmodo thinks this is a real Sega product, as opposed to the millions of other Chinese knockoffs that just use an official brand name. Look at the damn thing, it's a cheap knock off with a Sega brand.

Where's the official press, official sega page? All we have is some youtube video as PROOF? C'mon guys, where's the credibility in that??

LittleBigPlaneteer

Wow, that's REALLY ugly. Yikes.

dead_red_eyes

Looks fake guys...doesnt have the sega logo, it looks like one of those cheap ass "mp5" players....FAKE.

victorj

What the hell is this? Not only does it not have it's own game format, all the media features look run-of-the-mill, and the actual device looks ugly and too big.

Make a new Game Gear, with a proper game format, and stop fucking around, Sega.

Z4N5H1N

HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TO!

ZetaCrossfire

This better be $20, otherwise no one will buy it.

twonjosh

someone must have uncovered the mass surplus of game gear chassis' left over from the roaring 90's

discounteggroll

Looks like it was being compared to the size of a credit card at the end. That's probably the 'hook'.

Fortyseven

So its like an iPhone but its not a phone?

Townie

Giz, you're definitely wrong on this one. Sega is NOT making these things and thus have hardly "returned to the hardware business". They are indeed just a Chinese knockoff. They're also not even selling them. They're putting them in as prizes in their arcade UFO catcher games in Europe. There's no reason why this should be blown up to more than it is. A cheap Chinese "MP4 Player" stamped with a Sega brand and put in as a cheap crappy prize by Sega Prize. That's it.

LittleBigPlaneteer

Sega, "having my cake and eating it too" would be for you re-entire the console wars. This isn't even worth looking beyond horrid images I just saw!

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

And if this is indeed a real Sega product, then Sega is on crack.

LittleBigPlaneteer

I'd buy GameGear 2, but I can't see buying this hunk of junk.

Ginsu

You know, my first reaction was pretty much the same as everybody else's here, concerning the design and features listed. But then I noticed that this is the size of a credit card! Take a look at the video at the 1:00 mark...

This thing does not need to play games, just because it's Sega. If Yamaha can specialize in (musical) keyboards, and motorcycles, and if Bic can do lighters, and pens, then gosh darn it, Sega can do videogames, pachinko machines, and PMP players!

RiceBandit

Fugly and the interface is very weak on par with Web 0.5.

Sega deserves to be bitch-slapped a few more times for their undeserved product arrogance and h/w shovelware not to mention their nationalistic bent (they never support Sega of America and always pander to the whims of SoJ).

Vagabum

i would like to slap their management

MrBlahBlah

golly, I miss the good ole' days when Sega had a respectable game system, and some awesome Sonic the Hedgehog games. What happened Sega!? Why have you forsaken us!......

I'll be OK though. Infinity Ward and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare have given me hope.

tharden33

Hello people, this is fake. They showed that the thing is the size of a CREDIT CARD.

LillieDesigns

Throughout the whole video, I thought the thing was the size of a DVD case, maybe smaller. Then that final shot sized it up to a credit card. That's not bad, not bad at all. The design is still late 90s and won't cut it amongst it's competition.

TruthTruman

this thing looks like a cassiopeia. Genesis rocks..

hihai411

And if you're gonna do a promo video for a movie player, you should at least fake the movie demo rather than display icons and stills as examples of functionality. Any first year media student could have done a better promo than that...

Vagabum

[kotaku.com]

RiceBandit

@LittleBigPlaneteer: I'm inclined to agree. I just went through 4 months worth of press releases on Sega's corporate site and haven't seen ANYTHING on the "Vision". I think someone dropped the ball on this one. If not... I think SEGA's marketing department would probably have a better time pushing this as a novelty gift of sorts. I mean they need to add cell phone capabilities and GPS before I'd even become remotely interested in something like this.

ttaber

@Z4N5H1N: the battery on this new piece of crap probably runs out in 15 minutes...

urbanturban666

@urbanturban666: hate to multipost but i forgot there biggest and stupidest design flaw... game gears battery life...

urbanturban666

@jewsrock: good point man... they never seem to design stuff that well and they try to beat everybody releasing new technology which lets them get there asses kicked...aka gamegear, sega cd, 32x, saturn, dreamcast...

not to mention all there design flaws... none of there controllers were that comfy or ergonomic... 32x is just a bitch to install... there was one cool looking game (forgot its name.... commercial was in a butcher shop of some kind) and when i go to rent it i find out that you need a 32x and a sega cd to play it...

urbanturban666

they should really nail out the kinks... they always seem to have a few too many kinks with there gear...

-sega cd was an epic fail

-rented a segacd game and it turned out that the game needed a 32x and a segacd to play it...

-there console controllers were always bulky and shitty.

-virtua fighter got its ass kicked by tekken...
-virtua cop got pwned by time crisis...

-most of there good games are racing arcade machines that you have to dump money into (ferrari f355, rally champs, daytona, super gt)...

stick to racing/arcade cabinet games sega...thats all your good for...

urbanturban666

Had my hopes at level 23. Game over once I saw the device and realized the whole thing is bullshit.

FinalValgas

I call farce - this is the sort of machine that doesn't normally leave HK, let alone make it into the UK - people are fussy here.

I question how genuine this even is.

Collins1

Fake piece of shit is fake.

NotHellTempest

@jmposvip: I beg to differ. Sega barely know a good game from a gorilla these days, so how they'd make a decent console is something I don't know.

Collins1

Interesting.

@DannyTMurphy: I did too.

Ajh

@Kakkoister: That's really spiffy looking, however for the price of that i'll get one of those netbook thingies. And back I go to watching tv on my psp.

Ajh

You make it sound like the PSP is a complete failure. Yea, it's getting it's ass kicked by the DS in the US, but that doesn't mean that the PSP isn't having some success.

ceilingFANBOY

hold up....why rip on the dreamcast. The DC could be one of the greatest consoles of all time. WAY ahead of the nintendo 64 and PS1. that thing rocked. Load speed, graphics quality, controller setup. How about the personal screen on the controller? That brought Madden to a whole new level. Calling plays without your opponent seeing anything. C'mon. SEGA led the way. Maybe this thing sucks but I doubt it. Game Gear still kills. WAY ahead of the comp back in the day. Stand up arcade units? Forget about it.

vandrook

Yeah, right, that's Sega alright with that Genisis era logo and the rabbit ears for the v in vision. Not. And they want me to use this thing which they say is the size of a credit card? This better be a Chinese 5th grader's beginning photoshop/vid production class project or all things Sega need to be razed to prevent further contamination of the tech gene pool.

::sigh::

Valicore

Sorry, but this just doesn't strike me as impressive, let alone able to entertain. Even the promo video was stupid. Way to simple with weird music to boot.

Sure, you have tv on the go, but how reliable will the signal be? You can play movies, but who will just give up their 120gb iPod Classic or even 8gb iPod Touch for some SEGA hand held that can only boast 2gb? With the DSi having a .3mp camera (weak), I can't see this going beyond 2mp, maybe 3mp, so it won't be the next camera for your picture taker. And the thing looks hideous.

"Even play the Java Mini Game" - My personal favorite. I love how they call it THE Java Mini Game.

I personally think SEGA has lost it's touch over the years. Now I just see their feeble efforts and cry...

@ LittleBigPlaneteer: I'm with you on that.

icthis3t7

Really SEGA has no business just putting out another dime-a-dozen PMP. Truthfully, I'll bet it's not all that bad. But really, a company like SEGA to put out a piece of technology that doesn't even remotely utilize it's vast history of game development; shame on them. Without harping on them too much, I have to say a TV is handy, but not at all ground-breaking (it was an enhancement for the GameGear). Plus it's also important to ask whether it's a digital tuner or analog.

scandalmonger

it's looks like someone made it on movie maker.

if this is real... well, I don't think i even need to say.

shade-black

@ttaber: if this is, in fact, and actual product and not some crappy homemade video, then it's a cheap chinese media player and some european company paid sega for the rights to use their name (a la Westinghouse, Polaroid, etc.).

spundot

....*sniffles*

Sega....I miss you....please come back!
You know...come back to the days of Genesis, and Dreamcast!

Seriously though, I really wish that Sega would return their roots. :\ They've become so horrible it makes my childhood memories shed a tear.

Anubis LG

when i see things like this -and Amazon Kindle- I just thank god there is Apple.

Isnt there any good designer other than Jonathan Ive in this world!!! Come one guys.

medopal

@spundot: And in that case, what was Sega thinking letting their name be attached to something like this?

jamar0303

it'd be cool if you could play all the mega drive/master system games on it through a non emulated interface. I'd buy that...well if they came with a save function Imagine you'd fought your way up the tower in Streets of Rage II and then suddenly you have to get off the buss for work....stinger

Jesus_Jones

Kotaku already called this one out. You should probably post an update about the faketasticness.

kwicherbichin

PiMP?

EricAlder

@DannyTMurphy:
The Dreamcast was awesome, Soul Caliber II, phantasy star online, twice the power of other consoles at the time, just it was up against such a straight down the middle of the road mass market device such as playstation is all.

Remember tomb raider was exclsive to saturn once, then ps came along and nicked it - marketing disaster that started the end of sega imo.

trstn

Kotaku posted about this today as well.
[kotaku.com]

Rumor Destroyed.

Kayonesoft

@jewsrock: I'm sure there are a lot of products that are lacking, made by many popular companies. It's just that many people often don't hear about them when they do poorly. This may be just another example.

TheolaLamia

"this is the company that brought us the 32X, Saturn, and the Dreamcast"

What? The Dreamcast was an outstanding console and has no business being crucified with those other systems.

crapcakes

Looks ugly.
Hey the video been removed :(

xmido