its is true, BUT (theres always a BUT) it may never come out..
read more here (old news content)
it has been in development tho, and it has been tossed around, soo maybe one of these days it will be introduced into the market long after the DC is really "dead"..
The problem is, as we all know Sega is done with developing hardware, they mainly focus on software now.. Sooo... well you know the deal..