Guardian: Cruel Dreamcast 2 rumours
Don't get excited - really - but rumours have been zipping around the internet that Sega is considering dipping its unwisest toe back into the world of home console manufacturing. This all stems from the company's decision back in August, and only recently come to light, to update its trademark on the Dreamcast name. An application lodged with the US patent office looks to register:
"Home video game machines; player-operated electronic controllers for electronic video game machines; video game interactive controller, namely, hand held pads, and floor pads or mats; joysticks for video games; computer cursor control devices, namely, computer mouse; flash memory cards; video game software, computer game programs."
Two entries on that list have got impressionable chins wagging: the floor pads and flash memory cards - neither of which were available on the original machine. If Sega has new peripherals in mind, then surely this is more than an effort to protect an obsolete brand? Surely, they have a follow-up in mind? Well, no. As the spoilsports at Kotaku point out, Sega is almost certainly just protecting the name for another few years from chancers who fancy nicking it for their own dance mat-sporting games machines. Even that is a quite unlikely scenario.
