wraggster
January 25th, 2012, 01:42
A French design student has dreamed up the Dreamcast successor console that never was.
<FIGURE style="POSITION: relative; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 300px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FONT: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); CLEAR: both; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; border-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="article-image article-image-alt article-image-300">http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_276343_thumb_wide300.jpg (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=276343)</FIGURE>Elie Ahovie, who notes on his blog (http://elieahovi.prosite.com/40900/382655/work/dreamcast-concept-revival-by-sega) that he's currently looking for a job, analysed the design aspects of the original Dreamcast and came up with a striking triangular console that interacts with mobile phones. We thought we'd share it."The insight of the project was really to take the best of the 90's Dreamcast and then re-interpret it to make a new game console inspired by the old one," he explaines.
<FIGURE style="POSITION: relative; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 300px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FONT: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FLOAT: left; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); CLEAR: both; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; border-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="article-image article-image- article-image-300">http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_276342_thumb_wide300.jpg (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=276342)</FIGURE>"Thanks to its network connectivity, the Dreamcast [Delta] will recognize phones, touchscreen tablets, smartphone for young gamers but also regular wireless controllers for true casual and hardcore gamers if needed."Nowadays, it's sometimes difficult to plug our game console to our tv because all the connections are behind the device. We generally turn the game console, hold it in a risky way and move the furniture.
"Thanks to this new shape, we could have more space to connect the game console without moving it."
In an interview last year, Sega's executive VP of sales and marketing Alan Pritchard stomped on (mental) speculation (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/280453/sega-confirms-dreamcast-collection/) that Sega might one day release a new Dreamcast console.
Asked about CVG's interview with Sonic creator Yuji Naka, in which he said he wants to make Dreamcast 2 (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/267778/let-me-make-dreamcast-2-sonic-creator/), the Sega man said: "Unless there's something I don't know - no one has told me about getting back into the console business."
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/333236/dreamcast-2-is-this-what-it-wouldve-looked-like/
<FIGURE style="POSITION: relative; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 300px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FONT: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FLOAT: right; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); CLEAR: both; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; border-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="article-image article-image-alt article-image-300">http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_276343_thumb_wide300.jpg (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=276343)</FIGURE>Elie Ahovie, who notes on his blog (http://elieahovi.prosite.com/40900/382655/work/dreamcast-concept-revival-by-sega) that he's currently looking for a job, analysed the design aspects of the original Dreamcast and came up with a striking triangular console that interacts with mobile phones. We thought we'd share it."The insight of the project was really to take the best of the 90's Dreamcast and then re-interpret it to make a new game console inspired by the old one," he explaines.
<FIGURE style="POSITION: relative; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 300px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FONT: ; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FLOAT: left; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); CLEAR: both; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; WORD-SPACING: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; border-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="article-image article-image- article-image-300">http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideogames.com/screens/screenshot_276342_thumb_wide300.jpg (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=276342)</FIGURE>"Thanks to its network connectivity, the Dreamcast [Delta] will recognize phones, touchscreen tablets, smartphone for young gamers but also regular wireless controllers for true casual and hardcore gamers if needed."Nowadays, it's sometimes difficult to plug our game console to our tv because all the connections are behind the device. We generally turn the game console, hold it in a risky way and move the furniture.
"Thanks to this new shape, we could have more space to connect the game console without moving it."
In an interview last year, Sega's executive VP of sales and marketing Alan Pritchard stomped on (mental) speculation (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/280453/sega-confirms-dreamcast-collection/) that Sega might one day release a new Dreamcast console.
Asked about CVG's interview with Sonic creator Yuji Naka, in which he said he wants to make Dreamcast 2 (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/267778/let-me-make-dreamcast-2-sonic-creator/), the Sega man said: "Unless there's something I don't know - no one has told me about getting back into the console business."
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/333236/dreamcast-2-is-this-what-it-wouldve-looked-like/