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An update to our earlier story - Sega confirms that the 'new Sega console' talk with Yuji Naka was down to translation issues.

Following our earlier news from E3, which pondered over comments regarding 'new Sega hardware' made by Yuji Naka in our interview - Sega has clarified that the comments were inaccurately translated, and categorically stated there is no such hardware in development.

The story, which took extracts from the forthcoming interview, featured Naka-san's words as spoken through his Japanese interpreter. While there's no deniying the arousing nature of the comments on the surface, Sega have contacted us to clarify that these were purely inaccurate in translation. Sega states that Naka was clearly speaking hypothetically about "working hard to realise" new Sega hardware.

Thinking logically it is fairly obvious that there could be no new home entertainment hardware from Sega, for a variety of reasons - but it would still be uber-cool if there was. And before Naka's comments were clarified by Sega today, we feel we were justified in reporting exactly what was said, specifically stressing the likelihood of the translation's wider meaning being inaccurate.

Look forward to the rest of the interview in our post-E3 coverage, which has tonnes of new info on Sonic Heroes and Billy Hatcher.

Adam Doree

Editorial Director, Kikizo Games

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		Alexvrb		May 22, 2003
			I would very much like a handheld Sega system, now that I think about it. I was recently reading some info, and PowerVR/Imag tech have been working on their MBX core for some time now. Meaning, you could get near the power of a Dreamcast into a handheld. http://www.imgtec.com/News/PressReleases/S...ingSo... - this has an interesting bit about hitachi using MBX lite along with a mobile hitachi processor. Sounds interesting, now what someone used more power-hungry versions for an all-out handheld gaming unit? Another interesting link - http://www.powervr.com/Release.asp?ID=49...

		Taelon		May 22, 2003
			With handhelds apparently becoming so vastly powerful, I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't all wasted on the limited screen real estate... Unless portable screens get somewhat larger but most of all are made in MUCH higher resolutions - I'm thinking, say, 640x480 pixels on a 5" screen - I'm not sure I would feel much like playing any graphically advanced game on a handheld, rather than a big whoopin' TV. Plus, with the very nature of handheld gaming (which at least to me means "quick fix", not "lenghty adventure game with complex control"), I can't imagine playing much else besides arcade-style games... But that's just me, of course. My wife and I play our Gameboys while travelling: at the airport, in the car, anywhere you gotta wait on one hand, but be ready to turn it off and go on the other hand.

		Alexvrb		May 23, 2003
			Around 320 x 240 would look pretty good on a small screen.

		DBOY		May 23, 2003
			Would this new handheld run more than 10 minutes on 6 AA batteries? I'm sorry, I was a GameGear owner for years, had 14 games for it, the carrying case, TV Tuner, everything. But the system had one major fucking flaw -- it was unuseable without a Car Adaptor or AC Adaptor. Kind of takes away from the portability when you can only play for 8 mins before having to find another outlet to plug into.

		racketboy		May 23, 2003
			the NGage looks like it will have a dinky screen did Sony give any screen specs for theirs?

		cherok		May 23, 2003
			We need to come up with cold fusion, then allof our portable problems will be solved! I really do not see how sony will do this either. They could include a rechargable lithium battery inside. Perhaps one specialy designed for the PSP to use as efficiently as possible. I think AA's are a thing of the past.

		mal		May 22, 2003
			So if they're denying it, it must be true.