The Japanese Sega account on Twitter has cryptically teased an pressing discover a couple of “new challenge,” which could possibly be a brand new Sega mini console, to be revealed on a reside broadcast on June 3 at 4:00 am PST (or 7:00am EST). The tweet comes paired with an image of a misshapen cake of a Sega Mega Drive or Genesis controller.
Why this “new challenge” leans in direction of a Sega mini console
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セガの新プロジェクトを発表する生放送が6月3日（金）20時より配信決定✨
出演は【宮崎浩幸】【奥成洋輔】……ということは🤔？
👇配信はこちら！
YouTube：https://t.co/zuCf8a7EVc
ニコニコ生放送：https://t.co/8nANC9FMaG pic.twitter.com/ZJq6IyCFRk— セガ公式アカウント🦔 (@SEGA_OFFICIAL) May 27, 2022
The announcement (posted above), as translated by Google, reveals that Hiroyuki Miyazaki and Yosuke Okunari shall be showing on the livestream. In the course of the 2019 Japanese Sega competition, each made an look to disclose the Mega Drive Mini, which was launched on September 19, 2019. This, together with the cake image, means that the corporate shall be unveiling a brand new Sega mini console, maybe a sequel to the Mega Drive Mini or Sega Genesis Mini.
Each Miyazaki and Okunari have been with Sega for the reason that mid-Nineties, with Okunari having labored extensively as a producer or supervisor on quite a few retro re-releases together with 3D Classics on Nintendo 3DS and a number of Sega Ages sport ports for Nintendo Swap. Miyazaki has an extended pedigree on the firm as effectively and was made challenge lead for the Mega Drive Mini.
Okunari had beforehand talked about in October 2020 throughout an interview with Famitsu (as translated by Siliconera) that after the discharge of the Recreation Gear Micro in Japan, the corporate would take into account the SG-1000 Mini or a Dreamcast mini for its subsequent retro mini console. On the time, he mentioned that no matter this is perhaps, Sega wouldn’t be capable of launch one “the subsequent 12 months or two years after the Mega Drive Mini.” Nicely, we’re effectively previous two years now, so this looks like the right time to see if Sega is certainly making one other mini console this 12 months.
The livestream presentation shall be streamed on YouTube in addition to on Nico Nico Stay Broadcasting.
In different information, Knockout Metropolis shall be free-to-play beginning June 1, and the discharge date for Stray could have been leaked on PlayStation’s database.
