Hopes for a Sega Saturn or Dreamcast Mini are buried by an interview with Genesis Mini 2 creators

The launch of the Mega Drive Mini 2 and the Sega Genesis Mini 2 is just days away, as is Halloween. As part of the campaign to build hype, the Mini’s creators, Yosuke Okunari of Sega, and Naoki Horii of M2, have been making the rounds in Japan with various publications. Two recent interviews they did with 4gamer and Game Watch reveal some very interesting comments about not only their newest mini console, but also the possible future for all Sega mini consoles. Long story short, due to costs and technology limitations, it’s not looking good? Can anything bring our chances of playing Dreamcast games in the 2020s back from the dead? Despite the bad news, there seems to be hope on the horizon.
Links to the relevant articles, which are both in Japanese:
www.4gamer.net/games/635/G063...
game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:46 - 4Gamer dot net article
3:00 - 32X games can’t be emulated on hardware SEGA uses to run their mini consoles
4:12 - Does SEGA really need to pay M2 to emulate all these games?
7:06 - Getting the SEGA CD emulator to work properly was a major challenge
7:55 - additional memory required for SEGA CD games greatly increased the price tag
8:52 - the Game Watch article reveals that costs & tech limitations make Dreamcast impossible
9:59 - It could be possible to emulate Saturn and Dreamcast games on mainstream consoles
11:09 - A Sega Master system would likely be SEGA’s next mini console if they did one
11:35 - Happy Halloween dudes!