Sega Confirms OutRun 2 For Arcades

Thanks to several readers for pointing out that Sega AM2 have opened an official page for their forthcoming arcade driving game, OutRun 2. This sequel to the all-time classic racer, originally released way back in 1986, was unveiled at Sega's private show in Tokyo last night, and confirms earlier information that it would run on the Chihiro arcade hardware, a modified Xbox arcade board, making it a prime candidate for conversion to Microsoft's console. The game also sports licensed Ferrari cars (the F50, F250, and Testarossa), and apparently, driving 'cool' will impress the girl in the passenger seat and get you different game endings.

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Xbox benefits coming?

[bigman2003]

Hopefully this will start a very long chain of arcade titles being ported over to the Xbox quickly, and well. The concept is good- make a console with good hardware, use it in arcades, port the same game over to the home version of the console. (Profit?!?)

The Xbox is not going to beat the Playstation 2 because of the huge difference in numbers- but hopefully the fact that it is easier to program for, and port to/from will benefit us Xbox users.

I've played a few PC games that were ported from the Xbox, and they were excellent games - Rallisport Challenge comes to mind- good on the Xbox, excellent on the PC. The PC gets much better graphics, but the gameplay is the same.

Maybe it will be a winning combination. Personally I am sick and tired of hardware and software conflicts while playing games on my PC, so I finally bought an Xbox. It thrills me to play for 2 hours without a single crash. Most of the crashes on the PC come from audio/video driver incompatibilites. I've sunk so much money into video cards in the past 2 years, I could have bought an Xbox and dozens of games.

Finally- freedom from that mess, AND Sega will hopefully be porting over arcade games...cool.