"January 20, 2004 - Remember when GTA: Sin City was “confirmed” by Amazon? Well, it looks like Amazon has leaked out some more good news: Outrun 2 is coming to Xbox.
Listed to ship in the UK on August 13 of this year, Outrun 2 is the sequel to the Yu Suzuki racing classic of the same name. Already out in arcades, Outrun 2 was rumored to be coming to Xbox, and then exclusively to the PlayStation 2. While the listing on Amazon’s site may be incorrect information, there is a high probability it isn’t because the arcade version of the game runs on the Xbox-related Chihiro hardware.
Sega of America had no comment on both Outrun 2’s platform and domestic release.
We’ll have more on Outrun 2 as it happens".
I truly hope the Xbox version isn’t shackled to the graphical limitations of the Playstation 2. Too many developers today code multi-platform games for the Playstation 2 in mind first, resulting in other versions running on far more powerful consoles suffering from wasted potential because of it.
It’s an arcade game from a board that is practically a souped up X-box as far as I know…
They have to do a conversion anyway so if they do it then they will propably do an arcade to X-box thing rather than a PS2 to X-box, no?
Anyway I’m not that interested in the game anyway…I’d play it on the arcades but I wouldn’t buy it for home…
[quote=“Al3xand3r”]It’s an arcade game from a board that is practically a souped up X-box as far as I know…
They have to do a conversion anyway so if they do it then they will propably do an arcade to X-box thing rather than a PS2 to X-box, no?
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Who knows? Porting the game to the Playstation 2 first would cost less, as the Xbox will have no trouble running a downgraded Playstation 2 version. Converting the game to the Xbox first and then downgrading the Xbox version for the Playstation 2 would be far more costly, don’t you think?
[quote=“GehnTheBerserker”]Why was Outrun such ahit in the first place?
Racing games bore me to death…[/quote]
Buy Daytona 2001 for the Dreamcast. Although I’m no fan of racing games in general, I can’t help laughing whenever I ram a rival car into a wall at 300+ kps in this arcade classic.