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Sega has unveiled its latest classic console, the Mega Drive Mini 2, which includes fifty games and will also play Mega CD games.
The company hinted, last week, that it would reveal a new Mini console. Foolishly, I had dared to dream that it might be a Dreamcast Mini. Alas, it is in fact a Mega Drive Mini 2, and it is only releasing in Japan, for now.
Check out the full reveal below:
The games that we know will be on the machine are (via Nintendo Life):
Bonanza Bros., Magical Tarurūto-kun, Fantasy Zone, Popful Mail, Shining Force CD, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Shining Force CD, Shining in the Darkness, Thunder Force IV, Silpheed, Sonic CD, and Virtua Racing.
There is no word as to if and when the console will arrive on Western shores. Sega is releasing it in Japan on October 27th, and it will cost ¥9980, which is approximately £60. I would imagine that it will make its way to territories outside Japan. The first Mega Drive Mini was a success.
If there is a slight hint of disappointment to the announcement, it is that this feels like more of the same. And no wonder: the same sells. The Dreamcast, after all, was a cult machine, which is a polite way of saying that it didn’t sell well.
In an interview with Famitsu, Sega producer Yosuke Okunari spoke about the possibility of returning to the Dreamcast or the Saturn. As translated by Gosokkyu (via Nintendo Life):
“The MD Mini’s internals can’t adequately handle Saturn games, and both developing and manufacturing new chipsets during the pandemic is a difficult & expensive process. . . . He jokes that he might like to release a mini that costs as much as an authentic modern console.”
