SEGA announces OutRun 2006

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 December, 2005

For PS2, PSP and PC.

SEGA has put the rumours to rest by confirming that OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast will be released in March 2006 on PS2, PSP and PC - but oddly not on Xbox.

Coast 2 Coast consists of 30 stages - the best of both OutRun2 and the OutRun2 SP arcade machine that followed it - with a new mission structure, licence mode, the return of six-player online racing, and a total of 12 licensed Ferraris including the F430 and Superamerica.

It's the series' first foray onto PSP, certainly - and PSP owners who also buy the PS2 version will be able to access a bit of exclusive content (dunno what) by hooking the pair up using a USB cable.

The game is in development at Sumo Digital, the team that handled the critically acclaimed port of OutRun2 to Xbox.

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Comments (58) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Foxis #1 6 years ago

    Fantastic!
    Wonder why the Xbox is left out though.....?

  • Razz #2 6 years ago

    ;_; No Xbox version...

  • Artemus #3 6 years ago

    Wonder why the Xbox is left out though.....?

    Because it's dead?

  • Blerk #4 6 years ago

    Microsoft killed the Xbox! :-)

  • mcmonkeyplc #5 6 years ago

    xbox 360 version perhaps later?

  • Eoin #6 6 years ago

    This is great news. Pity about the lack of an Xbox version, but an Outrun 2/SP that you can play on the bus sounds excellent.

  • Eighthours #7 6 years ago

    Judging by the quality of Sega's PS2 titles so far, compared to the other current gen versions of the same titles (Super Monkeyball, Sonic Heroes), I'm very wary of this. Though Sumo Digital are great, I can't see how this game will have any kind of draw distance on the PSP. The massive view was one of Outrun 2's highlights, and I can't see how it's going to survive on either machine.

    Hope I'm wrong though.

  • Razz #8 6 years ago

    Well Outrun is better than Ridge Racer atm.... :)

  • myiagros #9 6 years ago

    whooo hoooo, looking forward to this, hopefuly it will feel a little faster than the arcade version.

  • IP #10 6 years ago

    Gee, thanks, Sega. After all, Xbox owners are only the ones that bought the first fucking game. I've been looking forward to this and now, short of buying a console I don't want, or trying to run it on a PC that sits in my sodding office, I won't get to play the game. What a great decision. Arseholes.

  • Mashum #11 6 years ago

    Outrun2 was great! I have the tunes from it in the car as I write this... so very, very sad...
    (original Outrun 'Splash Wave' being my favorite!)

    Is this the beginning of a trend for publishers to start dropping support for the xbox1, moving their allegance to the 360 while still supporting the PS2?

  • NoCodeNed2 #12 6 years ago

    @IP - MS have to make it at least appear commercially viable for a dev to continue supporting their older platform. that to me is the bigger worry.

  • Flabio #13 6 years ago

    Now the 360 is out, I doubt you'll see very many more xbox games at all. Unlike Sony, who were quite happy putting out ps1 games for years after the ps2 came out.

  • PearOfAnguish #14 6 years ago

    2/10!

  • asha #15 6 years ago

    Great, i don't own any of them :(

  • kenty #16 6 years ago

    wtf?

  • asphaltcowboy #17 6 years ago

    what the hell? not on xbox :/
    morons.

  • speedstars13 #18 6 years ago

    Because Xbox is dead. Why should developers support dead machine?
    Edited by 1 at 08/12/05 @ 18:16

  • yagisencho #19 6 years ago

    PC version it is then.

  • HarryB #20 6 years ago

    no need for panic, xbox folk. probably just means a different outrun game will be made on the xbox/360...

  • kenty #21 6 years ago

    guess i'll have to get the PC version then :(

  • Kain_Cross #22 6 years ago

    Best news post in ages. Come to daddy, Outrun.

    And even though Microsoft claims their console won't be abandoned, XBox is as good as dead. They'll just feed the big dog now. And that's a shame, since Sony and Nintendo are proving that current gen machines can perfectly stick around another year. Owning both a PS2 and GC, next gen machines are the last thing on my mind nowadays.

  • Feanor #23 6 years ago

    How is a machine with a 20 million user base and continued third-party supportdead, exactly?

    Here's some Xbox games I'm looking forward to in the first half of 2006:

    Painkiller
    TOCA Race Driver 3
    Starcraft Ghost
    Winning Eleven 9 International
    Blazing Angels
    Splinter Cell 4
    Black
    Timeshift
    Tomb Raider Legend
    Edited by 1 at 08/12/05 @ 19:22

  • asphaltcowboy #24 6 years ago

    In which case, why not sell across the platform board?

  • Bates #25 6 years ago

    Feanor, those are only getting released on Xbox because they're pretty much all multiformat titles. It's a dead format. Pity, even the PSone kept going for a good while after the PS2 came out iirc.

    Oh, and Kain_Cross, you're not allowed to say anything even vaguely positive about Sony consoles on this site, it seems to send the fanboys nuts.

  • Kain_Cross #26 6 years ago

    Heh, I'll keep that in mind.

    Oh, er... typo. I mean "Sony sucks". And pays for this whole thing. While sucking.

    Lucky save there.

    /looks around.

  • BillGaitas #27 6 years ago

    \o/

  • Markusdragon #28 6 years ago

    No Xbox. Looks like it's PC for me.

    Years since I last played a racer on PC.

  • Mirkan #29 6 years ago

    Feanor; the ones saying with such certainity that Xbox is dead is just Sony haters trying to get a "PSOne is still around!" stab in. Don't waste your energy.

    I find it baffling that this isn't on Xbox due to the simple fact that the game is already running on it. Surely it wouldn't be difficult to just implement the new cars and routes?

    Maybe that's their reasoning, that this just isn't a big enough update, sort of like Final Tuned not appearing on PS2.

  • Markusdragon #30 6 years ago

    I thought that gaem rocked. It's quite challenging trying to remember the track AND the numbers at the same time

  • Luigi #31 6 years ago

    GREAT !!! OutRun 2 is the only game that the xbox has that I want it to play in my PS2 (well, half life 2 is the other, but I can play it in the PC) and I even considered buying a 2nd hand xbox mainly just for this game. I don't want it to be a burnout or need for speed clone, just that good ol' feeling from the original outrun. My only concern is related with the ps2 hardware. Burnout Revenge looks fantastic and it's amazing that its in fact , a ps2 console running that game. What I want to say is that Sega must work a little bit harder than the last previous games on the ps2 (not counting the retro compilations) to not deliver a poor version of outrun. I'll be waiting for news ! Salut form Portugal (SLB 2 MUFC 1:)

  • darkmistx #32 6 years ago

    XBox R.I.P 2001-2005

  • Tweakmonkey #33 6 years ago

    Strange decision if it's true, but unfortunate GC owners know how it feels for this to happen.

  • Yazoo #34 6 years ago

    "No Xbox version?"

    Would an Xbox version not be like, releasing Monkey Ball Deluxe on the Gamecube? Only to a greater extent since there are two existing versions of this game on the Xbox format.

  • MrGrumpy.au #35 6 years ago

    Wow! This is has made my day.

    It's funny with all the Xbox games I have it's the only one I still play (religiously every day since release), you haven't experienced Outrun 2 until you've played "Heart Attack" mode with "Shiny World - Prototype" blasting out of your TV/Surround Sound system.

    PS2 version for me, I just wouldn't feel right playing it on the PC (don't own or need a PSP).

    blackdog:
    I didn't mind the mental arithmetic (but I can see your frustrations), you just get to a point where you subconsciously get through it. You do have a 50/50 chance of getting them right ;)


    Fingers crossed that March '06 is a world wide release.

  • RobTheBuilder #36 6 years ago

    Excellent!!!

    Kudos to Sega, Outrun 2SP is one of the best arcades in recent years.

  • Talha #37 6 years ago

    If I am correct, Sega Rally 2006 is also not coming to XBox. What gives, Sega? It was PSX that sank the DreamCast, not poor XBox!!

  • jlaakso #38 6 years ago

    I fail to see why a PC port would be a good idea, but an Xbox one wouldn't. Oh well.

    Of course it's a good idea to do a PS2 version. The quality of the game doesn't even much matter, it'll sell a worthwhile amount anyway by name recognition alone. I still don't get why they didn't do a PS2 version of OutRun 2, though.

  • Scimarad #39 6 years ago

    If it's done well, Outrun is absolutely perfect for the PSP.

  • SteveB #40 6 years ago

    I hope it works well with the PS2 force feedback steering wheel. Arcade in the home if it does.

  • easy_lee #41 6 years ago

    feck no Xbox version. I'm gutted :-(

  • MrGrumpy.au #42 6 years ago

    Okay blackdog point well taken.

    I hope they don't take those X10/X15/X20 missions out though, that's another part of the game (on top of beating "Heart Attack" scores) that keeps drawing me in.

    Seeing as there are quite a few OR2 gamers in here I'd like to know what people think a good score is for Heart Attack/Route-A the arcade video I downloaded finished with a score of 2042/AAA but my best on the Xbox is 1781/AA someone must have gone higher on the console version?

    I'm really stuck here. (I think I really need a wheel to be more accurate with the cone sections, which is my downfall)

    I still can't believe we are getting a sequel!!! I'm so damn happy. lol
    Edited by 2 at 09/12/05 @ 10:16

  • Lost_in_Darkness #43 6 years ago

    It didn't sell anywhere near aswell as it could or should have on the xbox. it pretty much bombed in sega's eyes. hence why no 'box version.

  • Ninjamagic #44 6 years ago

    You are all a bunch of Harry Potters.

    its obviously OT2 with a twist, so they cant make an xbox version cos it is the same version! (plus a few new cars and a few new tracks). It might have made an "add on" for the xbox version on live but i can see why PS2, PC and PSP

    Do i get 5p for being "on the ball"

    :-)

  • Talha #45 6 years ago

    You get a spanking for dissing Harry Potter.

  • Dizzy #46 6 years ago

    >Wonder why the Xbox is left out though.....?

    Because it already has a version? This one is't really new is it? More like a best-of.

  • MrGrumpy.au #47 6 years ago

    Yep totally agree Lost_in_Darkness.

    The perfect example was here in Aus I bought it on release for $AUD100 and then two weeks later stores were selling it at $AUD24.95 I wasn't pissed off with the price I paid cause I knew it was a SEGA classic and had already had hours of fun out of it. But it was the attitude from the other Xbox owners along the lines of...

    "Oh no, here comes more of SEGA reahshed overpriced crap."

    Then after the price reduction...

    "Hahaha it was a pile of crap look at the price."

    :(

    Putting up against Burnout 3: Takedown didn't help either but that's another story.

    Oh I've also learnt down under never to mention Outrun 2 as one of your all time favorite Xbox games as 9 times out of 10 you'll be forum banned or treated like an outcast (it's either Halo or nothing!!!!). /ARGH!
    Edited by 1 at 09/12/05 @ 10:46

  • Darren #48 6 years ago

    Where's the Xbox 360 version?

    Failing that can we please have backward compatibility for the superb Xbox version of OutRun 2 PLEASE Microsoft?

  • karlidog #49 6 years ago

    "its obviously OT2 with a twist"
    "This one is't really new is it?"

    That's like saying Vice City was a 'twist' on GTA3 rather than a sequel just because the Xbox version was bundled with the original game. The Sega press release about Outrun 2006...

    http: //www.sega-europe.com/en/NewsStory/926.htm

    ...specifies 30 stages. There were fifteen in Outrun 2, and there are fifteen in Outrun 2: Special Tours. There's as much content in each game, so this is the original game bundled with its sequel rather than an add-on pack being sold at full-price. Anyway, if they'd actually marketed Xbox Outrun 2, I reckon it could've sold much, much better than it did. I can't think of many better-looking Xbox games. It's a shame that Outrun 2006 is being released just after the 360, or maybe MS would have had another go at getting people to buy the thing.

    Please please please, Sumo, don't convert the inevitably cut-down PS2 port of the game to the PC, though - just give us the unedited arcade game! The Chihiro hardware's basically a PC as it is (in that it's an Xbox) - the average modern PC has at least the Chihiro's 512mb of RAM. Surely the only major thing that'd need changing would be converting its instruction set to DirectX rather than whatever custom version the Chihiro runs. Pleeeeease... I need hi-res, arcade-perfect Outrun 2 ST!

  • lotteryman82 #50 6 years ago

    i really need to see what SEGA can actually pull through the black box
    and i m so willing to be pleasently surprised. as for XBOX ... well you have to admit
    MS has turned most eyes on 360 developers need support to support a falling console. its true there is a version of it already but i think the point is taken.

    and don't forget PS3 will still play ur Blood Omen disk and your Tomb Raider from 1995 or Tekken Tag from 2000 and in case you have little bit of retro inside you , you ll appreciate the option no matter if you use it or not and its useful to a company to know that its game will be usable on PS3 as well so getting it on PS2 more likely helps sell the game better since backwards Comp on 360 has a fog around it.

    as for fanboys i think that if for any reason the game was canceled on PS2 and came out on xbox some would be so fucking happy....and suddenly stop thinking they own it already...

  • AtomicBanana #51 6 years ago

    'those fragheads will probably try and play with a keyboard and wonder why you can't shoot anything.'

    Yes, because all pc gamers are like that >.

  • Artemus #52 6 years ago

    Anyone bitching at Sega for the lack of an Xbox version. Blame MS. They're the ones that killed the console whilst it still had a good couple of years left. :(

  • McGeeza #53 6 years ago

    http://www.ukresistanc e.co.uk/

  • BillGaitas #54 6 years ago

    "those fragheads will probably try and play with a keyboard and wonder why you can't shoot anything." cronk

    I hope your kiding, because the people who play racing games in the pc are actually the most demanding of all. Games like gpl, gtr, gtl, lfs and ... have huge comunity's, but because they are demanding they dont apeal to all players and dont make much money.

    Just know this, while there's a lot of people buying the Driving force Pro to play PC games GT4 is played mainly by people with pads.
    Edited by 1 at 09/12/05 @ 17:37

  • BillGaitas #55 6 years ago

    Then your a troll ! Good for you. ;)

  • RobTheBuilder #56 6 years ago

    Outrun on PC with my mint steering wheel will be amazing!

  • mustardkid #57 6 years ago

    er andyjack it may only be a rumour but i've heard that the pc may also have a small problem with piracy..

  • Yeevle #58 6 years ago

    Woah, the amount of money I used to chuck in the old arcade version of Outrun. This might make me get a PSP next year!
    Edited by 1 at 11/12/05 @ 11:28