Talk:Sega Genesis

Lack of sources on discontinuation date

Can anyone share a source for the Genesis being discontinued in Brazil in 2023, because i couldn't find any and i doubt that claim. Rvtar34 (talk) 05:03, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

You can go to the Tectoy website and see that they no longer sell it, Just an Atari Flashback, a Master System variant with games, and an Arcade based console.

https://www.tectoy.com.br/games/consoles

There's a thread on reddit mentioning it here https://www.reddit.com/r/SEGAGENESIS/comments/1434d2a/sega_genesis_is_officially_discontinued_in_brazil/ Lmcgregoruk (talk) 22:01, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

None of that is useable for Wikipedia unfortunately. Popcornfud (talk) 22:53, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Not to mention, if I’m not mistaken, that it’s happened before and been brought back — in the case of Genesis, at least. Master System has had better longevity with Tectoy than Genesis has. Red Phoenix ^talk 17:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Seriously, the altered name vs its original?

You'd think wiki wouldn't lean towards mob mentality, but this has to be the Nth time this article has reverted to "Genesis" rather than "Mega Drive", despite the fact that ONLY North America uses the name versus : Japan, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, England...(and more)!

Just because there are more people to vote down something doesn't make it the right way to do it.

(BTW, adding the fact about how many countries have the original name is new information, so not "disruptive". [Hell, I have an Indonesian MD2 to back it up.])

- Tallaussiebloke (talk) 00:28, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Please check the FAQ. Sergecross73 msg me 00:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

68K and Z80?

There's no way they ever made any money on the console itself. 57.135.233.22 (talk) 06:53, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

...what...? Sergecross73 msg me 12:32, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

I’m guessing the IP user is implying the cost of a Motorola 68000 and Zilog Z80, the two processors in the console, would have made it cost-prohibitive and unprofitable for Sega to start, not just when Kalinske suggested cutting the price of the Genesis to sell it on the razor-and-blades model. The IP user has some merit in suggesting this given the same processors were the base of the active System 16 to make converting arcade games as close as it gets by using the same hardware… but sources, please! The System 16 was an advanced board, but it was never Sega’s most technologically superior board of the time; the Y Board and System 32 (both members of the “Super Scaler” family of boards) were technically superior. Y Board had releases in 1988, the same year Mega Drive debuted in Japan, so System 16 wasn’t the top-notch technology of the time. Check out Power Drift and tell me if it looks anything remotely like Altered Beast.

Long story short: sources, or it didn’t happen. Red Phoenix ^talk 15:45, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Sega Master System Successor

I think it's interesting that there is no mention that the Mega Drive is actually the successor to the Master System directly. When the Mega Drive was created, the SMS was used as the starting point and the additional Mega Drive hardware was added to give it the backward compatability. This was stated in an old interview with one of the engineers that worked on the Mega Drive. Sorry I cannot find the video. Maybe someone else has it. 2405:6E00:2229:7BB:B1A6:7ADF:E5BB:902F (talk) 03:34, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

The WP:INFOBOX literally says Predecessor - Master System. It doesn't get much more direct than that... Sergecross73 msg me 03:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

It's also a little more present in the article and in published sources that we have that the System 16 arcade system board was really the starting point, and that is sourced in the article. For Sega, being a company that was so arcade-focused at the time, the idea of bringing one of their lower arcade boards to a home console was really what they wanted, and so much of Sega'a marketing at the time emphasized bringing the arcade experience home. It was also a jump-off for Sega where the SG-1000, SG-1000 II, and Master System all used the same Z80 for a processor with only minor tweaks to the hardware and a custom graphics chip for the Master System/Mark III. Of course, whether or not the System 16 was in turn based on SMS as a starting point is a good question; it too shared a Zilog Z80, although like with the Genesis, the Motorola 68000 is the real deal behind the system's processing power. Red Phoenix ^talk 04:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)