SEGA announces OutRun 2006 Comments by Tom Bramwell

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!

Where's the Xbox 360 version?

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

"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!

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...

'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 >.

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. :(

http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/

"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.

Then your a troll ! Good for you. ;)

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

Ellie been having a day off?

No news all day!

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

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!