Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2 Announced - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 June 2022 / 5,773 Views
Sega has announced Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2. It will launch in Japan on October 27 for 9,980 yen. No word yet on a release outside of Japan.
The Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2 is smaller than the original Genesis / Mega Drive Mini. It will feature over 50 Sega Genesis / Mega Drive games and Sega CD / Mega CD games.
View a trailer of the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2 below:
Here is the list of confirmed titles for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2:
- Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Titles
- Bonanza Bros.
- Fantasy Zone
- Magical Taruruuto-kun
- Shining in the Darkness
- Thunder Force IV (Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar)
- Virtua Racing
- SEGA CD / Mega CD Titles
- Mansion of Hidden Souls
- Popful Mail
- Shining Force CD
- Silpheed
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD
View the video that showcases some of the confirmed titles for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2 below:
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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The mega drive is still the best looking console ever.
I think the Dreamcast beats it, but to each their own.
Shining Force cd sounds nice, never played any Sega cd games besides Sonic and the remake of Night Trap. But come on give us the Saturn mini already! I suppose the next console will be the mega drive mini 3 featuring 32x games.
Sega's anticipated hardware announcement was another Genesis mini? I mean, we knew it was a mini console, but there were people hoping for a Dreamcast or Saturn mini. Still, it's cool to see that some Sega CD titles are being included this time. So, it's not all disappointing. Hopefully they don't go the Atari Flashback route and end up releasing a slightly upgraded mini of the same console every couple of years.
Genesis is the most successful console from them.
I believe m2 has said a saturn mini wouldn't happen any time soon as the off the shelf chips they use can't support it right now or something like that.
I enjoy the Mini Consoles. Ill pick this up. Hoping the quality is good.
Shining Force CD and Popful Mail are great inclusions. Hopefully this comes to the west.
In Brazil Genesis is still being produced by Tectoy as far as I know, even Master System is.
SEGA CD games clinches this for me
I might buy this one. I skipped the first one because the only game I wanted on it that I couldn’t already play on Switch was Alisia Dragoon. Hopefully they can get Lunar and Lunar 2 for this thing.
For just a moment, I honestly thought this was a new console... then I saw it was just another mini, ROM thing. Ugh. Sega! Why you screw with me so!
The only Nintendo mini console i’d be interested in is a GameCube Classic. Played through Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask and haven’t revisited N64 Online since.
Nintendo has an actual console to produce and market. They only did the NES and SNES mini for some positive hype while the Wii U was flopping until they could get the Switch on the market. Sega left the hardware business a long time ago,and can focus on releasing a mini of the same system over and over again. If you count the Sega Genesis Flashback from AtGames, this is actually the 3rd Sega Genesis mini we'll be seeing in the past 6 years. I can only imagine the backlash if Nintendo released an NES mini every 2 years, while adding a few different games each time. Speaking of reluctance to release a 5th generation console mini, I think the dumpster fire that was Sony's PlayStation Classic has both Nintendo and Sega shying away from that.
Sony did PS1 Mini and they weren't flopping with PS4 at the time.
Well Nintendo made mini consoles popular again so everyone started jumping on. Sega, Turbografx(Konami), and PS1 followed soon after.
Won't dispute that. Was just pointing his claim that a company would make a mini either when they are out of the market or their product is flopping.
No, but Sony put zero effort into the endeavor, which further proves that a company already supporting current hardware isn't going to have the same amount of time and resources to devote to a line of minis as companies like Atari and Sega who have long since exited the video game console market. Sony completely half-assed the PlayStation Classic which is why retailers were left slashing the price of the unit in the same holiday season it released in. Best Buy had trouble giving the thing away for $25 each less than a year after its release as opposed to the NES and SNES were consistently sold out and had to have multiple production runs. If the PS4 was struggling the way the Vita was, I'm pretty sure Sony would have put a higher level of care and attention into the PlayStation Classic rather than farming out the blatant low effort cash grab that ended up getting shat out into stores in 2018.
I don't see the Atari or Genesis mini being much more effort than PS1 mini, and to be honest NES and SNES mini also weren't all that effort put as well.
Nintendo had 3DS doing well, of needing the two lines of product doing bad being reason to put effort Nintendo also didn't had it.
https://nuadox.com/post/617507049216049152/mini-game-consoles-ranked (“All 7 Mini Consoles ranked BEST & WORST” by MetalJesusRocks)
1. Super NES Classic Edition (2017)
Pros: Great selection of games. Third party wireless controllers are available.
Cons: None.
3. SEGA Genesis Mini (2019)
Pros: Great mix of first and third party titles.
Cons: The console only comes with the 3 button controller. The 6 button version can be bought separately.
4. NES Classic Mini (2016)
Pros: Solid game selection including many first party titles. HDMI output is great.
Cons: Controller cord is short.
7. Playstation Classic (2018)
Pros: Comes with two full-sized controllers.
Cons: Game selection contains too much filler. Some games run at a lower frame rate. Some games look rough on modern TVs and monitors; and there no options to upscale graphics.
Besides being a personal rank it is basically based on games available, so yep not that much difference on the effort for the hardware.
It's just an example. And the fact that the PS Classic having it's only "Pro" being that it came with a pair of controllers speaks volumes about the rest of the unit. Meanwhile, the "Cons" spoke negatively of not just the games list, but the framerate and visual appeal of the games being emulated. Things that were not critcized in any of the other minis I referenced. In fact the SNES Classic even states "Cons: None".
I think you would be hard pressed to find many positive reviews about the PS Classic compared to the other mini consoles which were received favorably. The demand for the NES Classic stretching for years as opposed to the PS Classic being dumped into bargain bins within weeks of release is not personal opinion. It's a clear representation of how favorably or unfavorably each console was received by the general gaming public.
A PlayStation Classic should have been a homerun for Sony, but they chose not to put any effort into it, and you reap what you sow. It would have been better if they hadn't made the attempt at all, because what they released was an insult to anyone nostalgic for the PS1. Had it been a quality device, I would have bought one myself.
Framerate and visuals is part of the SW chosen. Just look at the PS+ Premium complain on the PAL versions.
About PS mini being unnecessary that is without a doubt as is actually all the minis since there are plenty of ways of playing those titles with much less limitations than these minis.
Again, that's on Sony for choosing to use the PAL roms. I really don't know why we're arguing about the quality of the PS Classic. It's an established fact that the unit was poorly received at market and that the retailers who stocked them had to cut the price several times within months of release just to liquidate the inventory. No further production runs were ordered.
Other console minis have reviewed better and enjoyed better sales both before and after the PS Classic. That's not up for debate. That's what happened.
At games created the Sega mega drive flash back with horrible quality and extremely poor emulation, they made Megadrive games look like Master system, on the other hand, Megadrive mini was made by m2, significantly better, very decent emulation, making megadrive mini quite desirable, even the games selection is decent as well
Hyuk hyuk yourself. Sega isn't financially mega successful right now, doesn't have it's own platform or subscription service and therefore every incentive to make some extra cash of nostalgia with these mini consoles.
Nintendo has zero incentive to do anything like that.
Before you get upset, how about trying to look beyond what you want.
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