One time console maker Sega have announced an anime featuring the anthropomorphisations of its ancient game consoles – a move sure to provoke plenty of nostalgia and much bitter moaning about the company’s current state among moe-minded gamers.
In fact originating as a light novel series, “Sega Hard Girls” encompasses a large roster of sweet girls that take on the likeness of former Sega consoles (as designed by Miku papa Kei), several of which are so obscure as to give even the more hardcore gaming historians pause:
Further release details have yet to surface.
Man if my Sega Genesis looked like this I would have played with it more….
I can imagine the discussion over at Sega to create this.
Bob: Wow, that Neptunia game we sponsored and published and assisted in developing really went in directions we never expected!
Alice: But it’s no longer truly ours.
Bob: Well, we did it once. We can do it again!
Alice : we can’t go in the same direction otherwise we’ll be called a knock-off..
Bob: Who cares! Lightning can strike twice.
No Master System? WTH?
This anime is gonna be better than this season’s generic shows. *cough* Atelier, Date A Live II, Nanana, No Game No Life, Black Bullet, Brynhildr *cough*
It’s a shame Sega didn’t have more money, they could have stuck with the Dreamcast longer, it’s done better in its short life than Nintendos flop the Wii U has done so far lol.
What’s funny they could have easily out did Sony and Microsoft with a new console.
Take a i5 or Power 7 based quad core chip or even two Celeron dual cores with a 3Ghz clock and pair it with a good cheap but still fast discrete GPU chipset and they could have made jokes about blast processing once again.
Really it would be laughably easy to match the Xbox One and not really all that hard to beat it while keeping the price in the same range.
Sega will never make money, because they’re Sega … Sega and money are like matter and antimatter: should they ever come together, they will both self-destruct. The management of Sega knows that and will do whatever they can to avoid making money …
Google made that offer, Sega turned it down. Google was willing to fund a new Console designed by and under control of Sega… the response back was “We do not want to return to the home console market…”
10.6 million Dreamcasts sold in almost 2 years of life on store shelves.
Almost 6 million Wii Us sold in almost a year and a half.
d aasssss