Sega and IGS working together to build arcade hardware for the Chinese market
The makers of coin-op games like Oriental Legend 2, Pirate Revenge, Speed Driver 2 and Battle Stations is teaming up with Sega to develop arcade machiens specifically for the Chinese market. All of those aforementioned titles were made primairly for that particular market, with a few of their games making it to other territories with English translations (as is the case with Speed Driver 2 and Battle Stations), but this is an interesting development as Sega gets a foot into the Chinese market and IGS gets to use better hardware than what they typically use. According to the announcement, IGS will “design a Chinese-language Sega machine with localized features”. Shipments begin in the 3rd quarter of this year, so we’ll keep our eyes open for more developments on this front.
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Tags: arcade, China, IGS, new hardware, Sega
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June 25, 2009 at 7:35 pm
When I read “better hardware” all I see is ‘death of 2D IGS games’
June 25, 2009 at 8:00 pm
IGS has been trending towards 3D hardware recently with the development of Speed Driver 2. I think there was another game they did in 3D but I can’t recall what it was at the moment(I might be thinking of BattleStations). Hopefully they don’t eschew 2D though, they have increasingly improved on their work and they could do a lot of cool 2D stuff with more advanced hardware.