Sega Touchscreen Handheld/ Sega Playstation?

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It has been reported from IGN,that Sega was originally gonna implement touchscreen to the ill-fated Sega Nomad.This was year back before Nintendo finally brought touch screen on the Nintendo DS.


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Also,not many people know about this but Sega was the second(after Nintendo) to be in negotiation with Sony to make a new Sega Console only to have been denied by Sega of Japan.It was also confirmed by Kalinske(an employee of Sega) that Specs brought up by Sega were used for The Playstation

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"We got together with [Sony] and defined what we'd like to see in our next hardware. We had this great idea that it should be a joint SEGA-Sony hardware system. If we had to take a loss on the hardware (which was the norm then), we'd split the loss on the hardware, but we wouldn't split software, so any software they did, they'd get 100% of the profits, and any software we did, we'd get 100% of the profits. It seemed like a fair deal since we were eons ahead of them in terms of software development.

So we go to Japan, and Sony management liked the idea. Then we went to SEGA, and Nakayama hated the idea. [laughs] So that was the end of that, and the rest is history once again. Those were the specs that became the PlayStation." -- Tom Kalinske


http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/04/21/i...ega?page=7