You can join the discussion on SEGA delaying their Mega Drive/Genesis mini consoles until 2019 on the OC3D Forums. The Sega Genesis, aka Mega Drive, was more than just a beloved game console. More information about this console is available here. (The images in this article are of original hardware, not the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive Mini)Įarlier today, Sony announced their PlayStation Classic console, a remake of the company's first games console, which will ship later his year with two controllers and 20 games. It was released in North America and Japan in September 2019, and in. This mirrors Nintendo's SNES Classic Mini, which launched with different enclosures based on the region it is purchased from. The Sega Genesis Mini, known as the Mega Drive Mini in regions outside of North America. North American buyers will receive a Sega Genesis Mini, while European buyers will get a Sega Mega Drive Mini. Inspired for Pigsy's Retro Game Dev Tutorials i made this little experiment with SGDK that is really simple compared to assembly so even my terrible code s. With this delay, SEGA plans to release their new Mega Drive Mini console globally with a single release date, bringing the North American, European and Japanise markets Mini models which better match their local console variants. This interest has caused SEGA to work on improving their Mini hardware on the software-level and review their designs further to 'satisfy all Sega fans' (translation). Sega has officially confirmed that their Mega Drive Mini console will not be released in 2018, pushing the release of the classic console remake until 2019.Īccording to a statement from SEGA ( Link), the company has delayed the console due to larger than expected interest from overseas customers.

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