Sega President and COO Yukio Sugino has stated that the Sega Saturn is proving difficult to adapt into a miniature console.
Speaking to Famitsu (translated by VGC), the Sega boss stated: “The Sega Saturn is surprisingly excessive efficiency, so the problem of miniaturisation is additionally excessive.
“I don’t suppose it’s a case of claiming ‘let’s make one other one as a result of it sells properly’, it appears prefer it’s going to be a little longer.
“I’d like to give it some thought after we’re in a state of affairs the place we are able to overtly develop it along with individuals who have at all times liked the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast.”
Performance-wise, whereas not a good comparability, the Sega Saturn was launched in the identical console technology because the Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64.
While Sony has launched a traditional PlayStation console, Nintendo has but to proceed the development it popularised of releasing miniature consoles. If it was to achieve this, the Nintendo 64 would presumably be subsequent.
In June of final yr, Sega’s traditional {hardware} producer Yosuke Okunari stated that he had thought-about producing mini variations of the traditional consoles, however claimed that the price of producing elements for both a Dreamcast or Saturn can be prohibitively costly.
Announcing the corporate’s Mega Drive Mini 2 console, Okunari stated: “Some of you may say ‘This isn’t a Sega Saturn Mini’ or ‘I wanted a Dreamcast mini’, it’s not that we didn’t think about that direction.”
Sega surveyed some Mega Drive Mini 2 clients in Japan to inform it which mini system they’d like to see subsequent in October 2022.
Dreamcast was Sega’s last residence console, marking the top of the Japanese firm’s near-20-year stint within the console {hardware} market.
However, regardless of its brief lifespan the console produced many critically acclaimed recreation franchises together with Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Phantasy Star Online, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio and Rez.
Sega has launched two mini-consoles thus far. The first Mega Drive Mini was launched in 2019 and included 42 video games, with the libraries differing per area. It included new ports of Darius and Tetris, which had by no means been launched earlier than.
