Rumor? Sega to Launch PMP to Rival PSP

[xtop]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/03/sega_vision/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoDlDhyhgBI

Sega will next year launch a portable media player boasting enough functionality to threaten Sony’s PlayStation Portable, the Register Hardware can exclusively reveal.

The PMP is to be called the Sega Vision and it’ll work as a videogames machine, in addition to playing films. The unit will feature an integrated camera for capturing still images and video. A built-in TV tuner will provide yet another form of entertainment.

Sega Vision may also threaten Sony’s Reader range of e-book viewers, because books are listed as one of Vision’s features. The Sega PMP will also handle music and work as a voice recorder.

Sadly, none of the machine’s technical specifications have been revealed yet, such as which music formats it’ll support, whether there’ll be on-board storage or how many megapixels the camera will have.

Sega told us that Vision will be launched in the UK at some point early next year, but a price hasn’t been set yet.

i dont know which korean company they got to make this thing, but they should find another, it looks terrible.

[Maximus]

Haha, Sega!

Sega will never do hardware ever again. They are barely paying the bills atm, support a new hardware infrastructure will probably bankrupt them...

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Haha, Sega!

Sega will never do hardware ever again. They are barely paying the bills atm, support a new hardware infrastructure will probably bankrupt them...

thought the same thing

the funny part about the register article tho is that they claim they're already available, kinda..

However, if you like what you've heard, then a handful of working models – believed to be the only ones in existence in the UK – are currently sitting in a central London arcade waiting to be won.

[DrinkMore]

Would love for Sega to come out with a killer hand held. Sega is number two on my list of best classic consoles ever - right behind Nintendo as first.

However, we don't need yet ANOTHER multimedia device. How many devices does one person need that does everything? Seriously!

PSP
DS
iPhone
BlackBerry
iTouch
iPod
Sandisk

so on so forth...

While some obviously do more than others, they all aim to do the same thing, music, video, pictures, ebooks, etc etc. Sega should stick to a game machine (if it's true). Not to mention the abomination of whatever that was in the video ???

[kx11]

yes boys and girls sega's new attempt at suicide is called vision


is there a reason to buy this? surly not

[DrinkMore]

Wonder why they would be doing something like this with a device that is so hideous? At least make it sleek and sexy or give it a worthy name. I guess Sega is intent on severing the last of whatever artery that keeps it alive.