Sega Pluto

So it's just a Saturn Slim right?

I love Sega... I was hoping this was an announcement of a new system.waflerevolution

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/05/11/bidder-offers-15-500-for-sega-pluto-console-seller-turns-it-down.aspx

Shortly after a former Sega employee posted photos of what basically amounted to a prototyped Sega Saturn with online capabilities codenamed the Pluto, the console appeared on eBay for sale.

The original online appearance of the console on AssemblerGames came with the quote that this was probably one of only two Pluto consoles. When the presumed only other Pluto appeared on eBay, as well as the auction site GameGavel by the same poster, the auction went up to $7,600 for the latter. It did not not meet the reserve, however, so it remained unsold. Meanwhile, the eBay listing received 89 bids and made it up to $15,500, and still did not meet the reserve.

I love Sega... I was hoping this was an announcement of a new system.waflerevolution

dittoTwarBlackshire

Ditto for me as well.  *sigh*

There was a lot of conversation about something like this in the mid 90's.

The Saturn hardware was just too expensive, and with Sony and Nintendo having some pretty significant price drops there wasn't much Sega was going to be able to do within the existing Saturn envelope. Its neat to see that they were pretty far ahead of the curve in terms of online play by adding the netlink.