Ladies and gentlemen! It finally happened. Hell has frozen over, pigs are flying, dogs and cats live together, Half-Life 3 is coming out soon, and Sega are about to (technically) finally make their grand return to the console hardware market.
In a surprise announcement, Sega have announced a partnership with Steam (Not Valve, the company. Steam, the product.) which will see the two join forces in launching the successor to, not only the Sega Dreamcast, but the Steam Deck: a new handheld gaming PC. The Sega Teradeck, named after Sega and IBM’s old Mega-Drive compatible PC the Teradrive, will be a handheld PC capable of playing all the latest PC games. It runs on a new operating system called SegaOS, features its own curated store consisting exclusively of games made and/or published by Sega, and also features compatibility with Steam, allowing Steam users to bring over the vast majority of games they have purchased on the popular PC game storefront throughout the years.
With handheld gaming PCs on the rise following the popularity of existing handheld PCs such as the Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally, as well as the innovative Nintendo Switch, many computer manufacturers are gearing up to enter this soon-to-be crowded market. Even Microsoft looks to be making one of their own to be part of the Xbox family. Sega will be making a bold step as a newcomer to this scene, but retro Sega fans the world over have reacted with nothing but excitement.
To learn more about the Sega Teradeck, come on down past the break.
The Teradeck will be nearly identical to the Steam Deck from the outside, save for it’s striking Dreamcast White color. It will feature a 1280 x 900 HDR OLED screen with up to 90hz refresh rate, a custom AMD Zen 2 + RDNA 2 compatible APU, Wi-Fi 6e compatibility, a 50 Whr battery for up to 12 hours of battery life, and up to 16 GB onboard RAM. It comes with a 512 GB NVMe SSD installed for onboard storage, which is upgradable and Gen5 compliant. It is also fully compatible with docking stations made for the Steam Deck, so you can enjoy your Sega games on the TV.
As for SegaOS, it seems to be it’s own custom operating system, probably based on Linux like SteamOS. SegaOS is exclusive to the Teradeck and boots straight into Sega’s own special storefront, which will feature all Sega games currently available and coming soon on PC. It will also have a selection of retro Sega console games ranging from SG-1000 all the way up to Dreamcast available as part of a new games-on-demand subscription service called Sega Online Classic. Prices have not yet been revealed for Sega Online Classic, but the games have, and it’s just the usual gamut of Genesis games so far. (Streets of Rage 1-3, Golden Axe 1-3, Phantasy Star II-IV, Columns, and so on) The only classic games available for purchase are those that are currently purchasable on Steam, such as Sonic Adventure 1&2 and Sonic Origins, and they are presumably exactly the same as the Steam versions. The storefront and the subscription service both require the user to have a Sega account, the very same online account system Sega introduced this January. (How are you liking that Kazuma Kiryu suit in Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii?)
Besides this Sega storefront and Sega Online Classic, Steam is also available to use on the Teradeck, however it must be downloaded separately. It can be downloaded directly onto the Teradeck through a built in web browser and installed. Sega games already purchased on Steam cannot be redeemed on the Sega store, however. They will need to be purchased on one or the other or both. (Also, Half-Life 3 is confirmed to be playable on Teradeck.)
A release date and price have not yet been revealed for this amazing new addition to Sega’s proud history of home gaming hardware, but once more is revealed, we’ll be sure to give you the lowdown right here on SegaBits.
So are you excited to get a Sega Teradeck? Do you have any other handheld gaming PCs? Let us know all about it in the comments below.
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April fools
Wow, way to ruin it.
I know right
kinda obvious
I already have a dev kit, it was over 2 grand. The dev kit has 20gb of ram to work with.
April Fool’s Day is the worst. what an immature “holiday”, in which the real fool is the one thinking they are funny and posting fake nonesense.
Even bigger fools are the ones crying about it because they refuse to get into the spirit of the holiday. I hope your life improves so you can lighten up a bit.
the problem is it’s fake joke news peppered into actual real news. it’s impossible to tell what’s real or not.
Right, same day at the Switch 2 announcement, I thought that was BS too. Well I guess it still is with the price.
you should find out the origin of the April fools.
it’s not a kind hearted one at all.
Actually I hate the April Fools jokes that are really believable. This one is actually something that can happen. Unlike say a Dreamcast 2.
I try to stay completely off the internet April 1st because there’s literally nothing real being reported.
Sammy Corp, Sega’s owners said theyll never allow Sega to make another console. And they stuck by their word for over a decade. Nice try lol
I was disappointed and thought this was a no go as soon as the article said the device had the same specs as the Steam deck and a subscription was available for old Sega games. I’m glad it was an April fools joke. I fell for it and read the whole article.
This article was unusually cruel for an April Fools, most of the joke news is easy to spot and though at first you might think this is the sheer amount of detail includes pushes it into believability especially as some of it is real news.
Most articles that are keeping in the spirt also don’t stay up after April Fools since it’s widely regarded to turn the fooler into the fool.