Now introducing - the ‘Sega Catalyst’ ….videogame system!
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News. Tagged with Fan Stuff, Rumor Mill.
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Well now this certainly has been a rollercoaster the last few weeks! We have had rumours abound of new games, a crazy hostage video, rumours of a Nights sequel, then a confirmation of NiGHTS 2. Plenty of brand new releases on all platforms. Sonic and Mario finally joining forces. Sega hitting the top spot with 4 of their 5 PS3 launch titles in Europe and much more to come. Now this!ÂÂ
Could this be true? Could Sega be having another stab at the hardware side of gaming?
According to mygen.com, Sega have announced that theirs plans of re-entering the hardware business with a brand new home console dubbed ‘Catalyst’.
Details are sketchy so far, but apparently the Catalyst will feature an HD-DVD drive and a confirmed NVidia graphics processing unit, as well as Sega showing off the (current) system logo {see image above}.
So far I am taking this with a pinch of salt, but the article by Mygen does seem quite legit- and they reveal some interesting quotes from both Sega and NVidia;
“I’m very pleased to be working with Sega on their new Catalyst video game system†explains Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and president of NVIDIA Corp. “We’ve worked well with them in the past on their arcade hardware, and this will only aid in further strengthening our relationship. We’re very happy Sega decided to reenter the hardware business and bring us along in what we know will be a great success.â€Â
“We’re extremely excited to be reentering the hardware businessâ€Â, said Simon Jeffery, President of Sega of America. “We know our fans have missed playing their favorite Sega franchises on a Sega made console, so it’s very exciting to be able to bring that feeling back to them.â€Â
“…[Don't] be at all surprised to see a few “cult” classics in the launch lineup, we’ve been listening to the fans, we know they want the classics. I can’t say much, but you won’t be wondering where the kidd inside you has gone for much longer.”
I honestly do not know what to say! This last week has had some of the biggest news in gaming history and most of it regarding Sega! The news of Nights 2, Sonic and Mario teaming up for a game and now that Sega could very well be serious about returning to hardware.
Phew! I think I need a lie down.
Note: Sorry to burst everyones bubble. This was in fact an April Fools joke from Mygen. But I thought it was a particularly convincing ‘joke’, which is why I decided to put it up. But many of you should have noticed that from the link above - the date of the article. I thought it also rather fitting to go with the last weeks crazy news- like the Mario-Sonic title and Nights 2, while those are true, this one is not.
Sorry for any distress this causes people. And we won’t be paying for anyones dry cleaning….
[Source: MyGen.com.au]
Comments on this article
There have been 6 responses to this article.
I am going to call bullshit on this one, simply because of the date.
connla
Posted March 31st, 2007 at 4:30 pm.
OMG. i’m prolly the biggest gullable-est person ever. i hadn’t seen the date on that one and took it at face value. at that time, i almost cried. However, I wouldn’t mind if it were real, Catalyst is a cool name.
jopamine
Posted March 31st, 2007 at 5:01 pm.
Looks like you guys spotted that eh?
Yeah it is 99% an April Fools joke.
But eversince we didn’t do one- I thought it apt to ’steal’ one from another site. Sorry fellas.
-I’m actually going to update the main post and point out that it is an April Fools. But I’m going to leave it there - just because I thought it was quite well done…plus the date is very obscure.
My apologies if this caused any premature heart attacks or pant wetting.
G
Posted March 31st, 2007 at 5:08 pm.
HAHA. it’s ok.
Although I did google certain key words from the article to see if it was real. I got nothing. I’m such a loser, i’ll believe anything that has to do with Sega.
jopamine
Posted March 31st, 2007 at 5:49 pm.
Don’t feel so bad- Seriously when I first read it I was like “What the hell!” and got all excited. But then I double checked the date….bugger.
But as I say, I thought it was a pretty convincing article to put up. Just a shame there’s no truth in it…or is there?
Craxzy thing is - when I typed ‘Sega Catalyst’ into a search engine a load of articles about Sega did appear- and most of them featured the word ‘catalyst’. So I wonder if they somehow picked up on the word Catalyst being in so many Sega articles and chose it as a name or just made it up.
G
Posted March 31st, 2007 at 7:10 pm.
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turok64
Posted March 31st, 2007 at 7:13 pm.