Sega's new arcade hardware...

[jackspicer]

AOU09 expo is going on right now in Toyko...
It says "Game development is based off Windows PC''


http://www.andriasang.com/e/blogs/anoop ... _hardware/

[nonner242]

Interesting

[The Apprentice]

So... It's like an Xbox 360 how it runs in a Microsoft environment. That doesn't sound half bad. Too bad I'll never see one in person.

[arion]

Well the dreamcast ran on Windows CE so it's not a first

[Hatta]

The dreamcast supported WinCE for easy ports of some games, like Worms. Not all games used WinCE though.

[marurun]

Basically, Sega and Microsoft worked together to make sure that there were WinCE-compatible game libraries and dev tools for the Dreamcast. There was no requirement to use them, though. While they weren't as fast/optimized as coding using Sega's APIs, decent performance could still be realized. Sega Rally 2 isn't the best performer, but it's fun and looks good enough for me. It was a WinCE game.

[SpaceBooger]

Anyone have an idea as to what kind of games Sega plans on using these board for?

[Jrecee]

Either the Dreamcast 2 or a sequel to segasonic arcade.

[gradualmeltdown]

Sounds like they liked how the last gen hardware worked out. Lindenburg or whatever was essentially a multicore PC somewhere close in power to an Xbox 360 or PS3. I imagine the hardware is being developed for an entire generation of games from Sega. Hopefully it is "halfway" in between generations like Lindenburg was and will give us a peek at what graphics might look like next gen.

[BigTinz]

I heard sega was creating the next xbox for microsoft.

It is truly a shame how all arcade hardware is becoming PC based...I miss the days of custom made hardware.