SEGA Arcade Fog Gaming

[nem]

Four versions of Game Gear Micro with four games each. Emulation made by M2 as always. Looks uncomfortably small.

Anyway, the Famitsu scoop was not about that. It was about this:



Fog gaming.

[geotrig]

that micro

also so sega big annoucement is basically an idea to try and **** on already struggling arcades ?

[nem]

I'm not sure I understand the concept behind harnessing arcade hardware for cloud services at 'off hours'. I haven't been to a Japanese arcade in over decade, but I would guess they're open, I don't know, from noon to midnight? How much use can a cloud service have outside that? Unless they're betting on COVID-21 I could see it being more believable if they meant 'idle hours', crunching the numbers and noticing that a lot of their arcade gear is sitting idle. So might as well use that time to operate a cloud service? However, the revenue to arcades can not be a whole lot more than some very minuscule payback, barely covering electricity costs and not a whole lot more. There's a reason why server farms are placed in the middle of nowhere and not on prime real estate.

Honestly, the Game Gear thing would have been the bigger scoop. Man, what a missed opportunity that thing is. The original GG hardware is a piece of ****, terrible screen and eats up 6 AAs in a couple of hours. But there's a ton of very good games on the platform (honest!), practically all of them made by Sega. Put the cheapest ARM SOC and an OLED screen on a handheld the size of a NeoGeo Pocket, then put 50 games on that thing and charge 100 euros for it. I would have been all over it.

As it is though, well

gg_micro.jpg

[Braintrash]

Sega was missing being on the verge on bankrupcy, so this is their new attempt at suicide.

[nem]

I'm not sure I understand the concept behind harnessing arcade hardware for cloud services at 'off hours'. I haven't been to a Japanese arcade in over decade, but I would guess they're open, I don't know, from noon to midnight? How much use can a cloud service have outside that?

Naturally my mind when to gaming because, you know, Sega. However, someone on another forum pointed out it's more likely that it's for enterprise-level computing tasks, like encoding videos, crunching equations, mining bitcoin, finding aliens in space, etc.

It's a novel idea. I don't expect arcades to make bank on it though.

camera pans out to reveal a 10 year old kid holding it

It's still damn small.

EDIT: official site has the size. It's 80mm x 43mm x 20mm. So I made a mock up:

gg_micro_mock_up.jpg

I don't know, I kind of want one now If you can mod this thing, I'm sold. I don't even mind the four game limit. Let me put four games of my choosing and I'm happy.

[SuperPang]

Early reports suggest this is a service for playing arcade games at home after hours. If this stops Senjin getting a proper port I'll be a bit miffed.

I'll create a thread for this and the GG Micro once things are a bit clearer.

[yosai]

Japanese arcade gaming at home, who would have thought that...

[jimmerd]

It will be interesting to see how far along with development SEGA is and how the "Fog" computing gets utilised.

If it's just for 'out of hours' then perhaps it will allow people to play StarHorse or other turn based simulators
(I actually like the game btw)

It could also be used in the day time to perform additional processing to enhance the game experience.

How long before we see Sega 'Proxy' account services for overseas users? - of course the latency when the equipment is not located nearby would be higher.

[Braintrash]

As long fog gamings is hacked, I am fine with it.

[SuperPang]

[Jan]

fog gaming...

[Rocco]

What’s this ****. ?