"Death" was one long flashback with no new scenes, edited together from the preceding 26 episodes, and "Rebirth" was short and unfinished--and reproduced at the beginning of "End of Evangelion."
There are "director's cut" (note: spoilers in link) versions of the last few episodes which have added scenes. You can find some of these scenes in Death and Rebirth during the whole flashback, but not all. They were never in the original broadcast, and they add a little insight into some characters. There are no legal R1 copies of the director's cut version. If you read this thread on the Animeondvd.com forums, you can find out about more scenes that are only in the director's cut version, what added scenes are in the movie D&R, and why R1 will probably never get them on a DVD.
Like the others have said, 8 DVDs total for the TV series released by ADV. At least 2 DVDs for the two movies (Death and Rebirth, End of Evangelion) which are suppose to be released this year by Manga. The movies have been delayed quite a while now. BTW, many proclaim the movie as the true ending versus the last 2 episodes of the TV show. Others proclaim the movies as alternative endings. And even some others claim that both are happening except each is told from a different perspective.
The boxset is cheaper and has the "remastered" volume 1 (no overlays among other things). Reviews and whatnot are available on animeondvd.com. Best price is around $95 plus S&H if you can still get the preorder price. BestPrices, DVDPlanet, Amazon (if you use their Share the Love program with coupons), etc. can nail you a good deal. It's a really good value for anime DVDs considering most are around $20-$22 each via preordering and normally retail around $30.
So this post isn't totally karma whoring, personally I think, Evangelion, while not necessarily the best anime, is something every anime fan has to watch just to keep up with the times. It's like not watching the Star Wars trilogy for anime fans. You don't have to agree that it's the best anime out there (rumor has it that the director also thought it was not good in the end), and I can bet that most would agree it is definitely not the most fun at times, but it's intriguing just because it has influenced the perception of anime in so many people's minds.
Still, I haven't bought a new game console because I haven't seen a new kick-fu game I like. I hope there is a sequel to Soul Caliber (which I think is a sequel to Soul Edge on the PlayStation).
Soul Caliber 2 is coming out some time this year hopefully, and for all 3 systems to boot, so no whining from any particular system's audience. In the meantime, check out Virtua Fighter 4. It's pretty indepth and still has pretty graphics so it pleases most crowds. It also has many different playing options and some "innovations" in the fighting game category (like an AI training mode to train your own AI character to fight other people like Black and White's creatures). Statistical performance and tips are also useful if you're really into fighting games instead of the button mashing.
The irony is that the PS2 does have firewire/usb ports, expansion slots for a hard drive, network addons, and the ability to hook up to CRT monitors (don't know about LCDs). The PS2 Linux Kit available for preorder will basically be a desktop computer. It's already out in Japan, and you can do quite a few things with it if you are dedicated. Want to play MP3s, type up documents, use external CD burners/hard disks (via USB), use it as a NFS server/client, program games for it, or browse the web? It's pretty much all there.
As for buying a computer, the majority of people hardly upgrade anything more than RAM and maybe a hard disk, so a console could conceivably be the next wave of computers. It sure would make programming "easier" with a non-moving hardware platform much like how Apple's computers are.
Actually I think its the complete opposite. The FPS genre has become too overcrowded with too many games, and now only big name mods can make it out there. No one wants *your* version of Capture the Flag, Team Fortress, or Counterstrike, they want Threewave's, Valve's, etc. even if XYZ version has more maps, more features, and more models.
FPS games are also more bleeding edge than most other genres (compared to things like Civ III, Starcraft, Diablo II), and that requires more knowledge as time keeps going forward to make "good" mods. Making maps for Quake 1 was complicated enough, but then you move forward with shaders, a few scripting languages, and so forth, and you're cutting down on qualified people. Splitting up the community with so many choices (Quake/DOOM/RTCW/UT/Jedi Knight/Half-Life) has also fractured the mod community compared to when Quake 1 was the only game in town. And most of the true innovators are being snatched up by game companies since now there are so many FPS games that they need developers for all of them.
In IGN's coverage [ign.com], they speculate that the new game will be Final Fantasy Unlimited, based on the anime.
Be wary of this speculation from IGN because apparently FFU has flopped and will be cancelled in Japan later this month. They will have had a 25 episode run but were originally scheduled for around 52. I watched a few fansubs, and while the show is alright, it is definitely not great. The enviornment also was not very suitable for a game IMO.
Personally, I don't regularly "shop" at EBay, but I've heard that some of the ratings are inflated quite a bit, and that actual comment feedback is the thing to read up on (e.g. if they have more than 3 really bad comments, don't buy/sell to them).
If you add comments to players, this can lead to all sorts of abuse especially in a competitive envirornment (what you won against me? you're a cheater!), and who wants to read up on comments about playing someone? Shouldn't we just play the game?
The fact that I have to pay them to read the reviews only confirms that they dont rely soley on the income of game promotion to publish, which goes a long way in allowing them to remain objective.
But don't you also pay for magazines in print? Shouldn't they also be immune to the game publishers then? The reality is, for exclusives, interviews, previews, and free review copies of games, it is a circular relationship that the publishers, media, and developers need one another. It does not matter which platform of media you choose.
Furthermore, while I think that IGN does a fair job, they hype more games in their previews to appease their audience. Wreckless was hyped as a GTA3 clone repeatedly, and looking on general gaming forums or news sites outside of IGN (meaning not PS2 newsgroups and whatnot where there is a high potential of conflicting interests), many gamers agree that the game is hardly as free and open ended as GTA3. You can't run people over for instance which many people get a thrill from apparently.
Just out of curiousity, can you really see the difference between 100 FPS and 120, 150, 180 or whatever FPS? I can see a difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS because one is definitely more choppy than the other, but after 60 FPS, I can't really tell any difference except in the rare instances where you have too many players moving around on the screen at once. The only advantage I can see of having more FPS at 1024x768 is knowing that you can boost the resolution even higher and get at least 60 FPS.
He might be paying for the cable television due to his cable company requiring it along with the cable modem internet service. I believe that is/was required from Time Warner in my local area.
First, HDTV does not mean widescreen (16:9) displays. Nor do widescreen displays mean HDTV. You can find a regular 4:3 television (rather 1.33:1) that does HDTV, and you can find widescreen TVs with no HDTV support (builtin or "ready"). However, most projection TVs and widescreen TVs today do support HDTV.
Also note that Playstation 2 does support widescreen televisions as well as the X-Box and GameCube. Some games have anamorphic and/or widescreen specific capabilities. Gran Turismo 3, NFL 2002, Jak and Daxter, and quite a few more support widescreen displays for the PS2. Most games for the X-Box and GameCube come with some support for widescreen TVs, and as time moves forward, I believe that most game developers will support it. X-Box and GameCube do have support for specific features of the HDTV specifications, but I don't believe that HDTV itself will be taken advantage of until 2 or 3 years at the end of this console generation's lifespan.
I don't have the game right now and I've quickly looked over various forums, but is there any hint at all that the US version of FFX will be able to use the future hard drive for the US PS2 in the manual/game? I heard that improved the game somewhat in respect to loading times and whatnot.
If I recall correctly, you can actually link 7 PS2s in GT3. One is a spectator, and the other 6 are players. I don't know too many houses with 7 TVs unless you get friends to bring them over, but I assume the feature works as advertised.
From what I remember of the series, Sisko did "die" in the sense that he can never come back. The Prophets forewarned him that his relationship with his girlfriend (forget her name at the moment) would end in sadness, and this is what they were alluding to. Personally, I and a lot of other people thought that it was very similiar to Babylon 5's ending where the main character is taken away by some higher ordered being after making a great sacrifice leaving behind a wife and child (where there were numerous other similarities between the 2 shows in the end), but oh well.
Sisko coming back? Please, let a major character "die" for once in Star Trek. It's already becoming like Marvel Comics with characters dying in one episode/movie and making reappearances in others. Technology is already trivalized in the entire series (writers just invent a whole string of words), don't let the relationships be too (oh, he died. maybe some mystical energy being will bring him back or some weird series of events). IMO, the one last thing that Star Trek has going for it is that it focuses on developing characters.
I thought the general observed policy on security issues is to give the company at least some advanced notice of the issue so they can provide a supported (and working) fix. If they show that they are working on the problem, then the person/people who notified them gives them a reasonable amount of time to test the fix or else they release the notice. It does no one any good if someone just blurts out that there's a security hole but fails to give preemptive time for the program's maintainers to fix and test the fix. I think most of the complaints against MS is that given a week (and after notifying proper channels), many people just don't get a response that even say that the issue is being looked into much less acknowledged.
I hope not, for Nintendo's sake. If this is going to be the case, then expect the GameCube to end up exactly like the N64 -- several Nintendo titles released per year, little from anybody else, and people only buy it for Pokemon or Mario Party. Nintendo has had problems wooing third-party developers lately, and unless they fix that, the Gamecube will not be a contender.
Except Nintendo's titles are still constantly ranked in the top 10 console games consisently and without fail, even with the release of PS2. They might not be a contender in quantity, but apparently, they're a contender in quality if sales figures dictate that. BTW, Zelda and Mario 64 were pretty big titles too for N64, and honestly, I really liked the games. Plus with the gain of titles like Star Wars: Rogue Leader II (LEC), and Resident Evil series (Capcom), it appears that they are wooing the other third party developers. Sega is jumping on board too with Sonic and PSO which seems to be the biggest score IMO since Sega will become one of the biggest console software publishers with multiple franchises, and this is the time to be one apparently with all indiciations that sotware publishers are going to rake it in (see news stories on news.com, gamespot.com, or your dedicated gaming source).
Not all games are FPSes nor were they designed for 16+ players. Check out THPS3. It's pretty good for 4 players (haven't heard too much about lag, built-in Internet support via USB ethernet adapters / future Sony official ethernet addon). I find it kinda funny tho that one machine that has the capability to do Internet support out of the box does not have a game that uses it officially, and another console that does not have Internet support out of the box, not to mention an official add-on yet, does have a game that goes online and has built in support.
Rumor also has it that Halo will have a sequel/expansion pack for the X-Box that brings it online officially, so maybe it will have a more massive multiplayer (16+ players) focus.
The pause is usually due to a DVD dual layer disc when it is switching from one layer to another. Most movies/shows do this at a chapter stop or during a scene transition so you don't notice it as much. I haven't seen a DVD player that doesn't have the pause.
And as for the original poster saying that the X-Box is a better DVD player than the PS2 that doesn't tell a whole lot. The cheaper $100-$150 do a better job nowadays than both. X-Box also isn't progressive (for DVD movies, not games) so it isn't that forward thinking and eliminates one of its hyped advantages, although by the time that progressive TVs (mostly just HDTVs) are standard, we might be on X-Box 2, PS3, and GameCube 2, so it might be a moot point and might have saved consumers or MS some dollars.
The one thing that I was astonished to find out was that the number one complaint regarding the PS2's official DVD remote wasn't fixed on the X-Box official remote. The power/reset button is missing and while it isn't so much a hassle, I would figure they would have addressed it since the X-Box's remote is so much more basic than the PS2's.
The AC is right in pointing out that Anand talked about the lack of C libraries, not compiler. Also, I think you should also know that rumor has it that the developers for the PSOne wanted it that way in a sense. Most of them were programming directly to the hardware via assembly, not using the provided C libraries, so I think Sony took that as a clue and allowed them to program directly to the hardware. Unfortunately, not everyone understood the capabilities of the hardware in time, so you got technically medicore games for a while.
If you read the article more thoroughly, you should have noticed that there will be a Part II to the article with X-Box vs. GameCube.
Anyway, I really want to know if Japan has more computers than consoles. Really, I thought it was the other way around (more Japanese have consoles in their homes than PCs). Up until the Internet boom, I would say that the US also had more consoles in people's homes than PCs, but that's speculation. Anwyay, while the US is pretty fanatical about the consoles, I think the Japanese are much more so. How many times have you heard about public launch parties that drew hundreds if not thousands? GT3 had kiosks stations set up in convience stores dedicated just to the game if I remember correctly. I even heard that there were live performances of the music on the launch of FFX. I certainly haven't heard of anything to that magnitude in the US. So I guess the console market is hotter and perhaps bigger than PCs, but I don't think its because there are fewer owners of consoles than computers.
Most stores (namely CompUSA and Best Buy) will refund your money for the price difference between the initial price and the advertised one within 30 days of purchase. Or at least they used to till about last summer (the last time I made a purchase before an ad came out for a piece of hardware). I'm not talking about returning the game, but getting a refund for the advertised price. Considering the usual Christmas season, this can amount to hundreds of dollars if you purchase a few games ($60 is the retail price many stores are selling RTCW at, usually the following ads on similiar games such as Quake 3 are $30-$35 either a week or two later). Figure you purchase 4 or 5 games for friends/family/yourself, then you net a good pocket of change to buy that Dreamcast or whatever.
The real big thing to be cautious tho is if the owner has kept a copy of the CD key or has distributed it beforehand. Without a unique and individual CD key (only one person can use it at a time supposedly), you're going to be out of luck regarding Internet multiplayer until they put in a patch that doesn't check the CD key (they haven't done it yet for Q3A, which has been out for some time now, 2 years maybe?).
If you're patient, wait until this weekend's ads in Best Buy and CompUSA. They usually knock the price to around $30-$35, and my local TX stores always still have them in stock. Your mileage may vary. Or if you're really impatient, buy it now and bring the receipt back later within a few days.
Actually, all of the Sega ones are pretty much being ported cross platform. The only ones that I know of that have some exclusivity (for a limited time) are Sonic (GameCube, funny how the 2 most recongizable brand characters are appearing on the same platform) and Shenmue 2 (X-Box). Sega seems to be taking their cross-platform strategy seriously and porting most of their games across the board. Some games that are being ported to Nintendo, PS2, and X-Box (more than one platform) include Soul Caliber, Virtua Fighter, Sega GT, and Super Monkey Ball. Capcom titles may be heading over to GameCube more than X-Box (considering what's happening to RE series). Hopefully, Sega will remain a strong neutral player so that they don't upset anyone anymore (considering Sega fans are loyally divided now).
Think of how many of the great games came out two year later for most of the consoles. When did Gran Turismo 2, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc. come out? Usually over a year and half past the launch. This might have to do with the fact the games are epic and need further development time, an agreement with the console maker (so that you keep up sales), or just the fact that they want to release a game with better special effects and don't want to ruin the other games.
Do you know what was the number one selling console up till last year (even when the PS2 was out for around a year)? Yup, you guessed it, the PSOne. Oh yeah, all those PS2 games that are being raved about (GT3, GTA3, THPS3, MGS2, DMC, Ico)? It's over a year from the official launch that they're finally appearing and some of the bigger ones have yet to appear (FFX, FFXI, Jak and Daxter)...
Also, when 2 years have passed, I bet the "winner(s)" of the console wars for this generation will have been decided, so all those that waited will play catch up. Furthermore, those waiting for price cuts, more availability, more titles, or just those that waited before buying into the hype will buy it at the later date. Not everyone gets into a frenzy over launch days.
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The boxset is cheaper and has the "remastered" volume 1 (no overlays among other things). Reviews and whatnot are available on animeondvd.com. Best price is around $95 plus S&H if you can still get the preorder price. BestPrices, DVDPlanet, Amazon (if you use their Share the Love program with coupons), etc. can nail you a good deal. It's a really good value for anime DVDs considering most are around $20-$22 each via preordering and normally retail around $30. So this post isn't totally karma whoring, personally I think, Evangelion, while not necessarily the best anime, is something every anime fan has to watch just to keep up with the times. It's like not watching the Star Wars trilogy for anime fans. You don't have to agree that it's the best anime out there (rumor has it that the director also thought it was not good in the end), and I can bet that most would agree it is definitely not the most fun at times, but it's intriguing just because it has influenced the perception of anime in so many people's minds.
The irony is that the PS2 does have firewire/usb ports, expansion slots for a hard drive, network addons, and the ability to hook up to CRT monitors (don't know about LCDs). The PS2 Linux Kit available for preorder will basically be a desktop computer. It's already out in Japan, and you can do quite a few things with it if you are dedicated. Want to play MP3s, type up documents, use external CD burners/hard disks (via USB), use it as a NFS server/client, program games for it, or browse the web? It's pretty much all there.
As for buying a computer, the majority of people hardly upgrade anything more than RAM and maybe a hard disk, so a console could conceivably be the next wave of computers. It sure would make programming "easier" with a non-moving hardware platform much like how Apple's computers are.
Actually I think its the complete opposite. The FPS genre has become too overcrowded with too many games, and now only big name mods can make it out there. No one wants *your* version of Capture the Flag, Team Fortress, or Counterstrike, they want Threewave's, Valve's, etc. even if XYZ version has more maps, more features, and more models.
FPS games are also more bleeding edge than most other genres (compared to things like Civ III, Starcraft, Diablo II), and that requires more knowledge as time keeps going forward to make "good" mods. Making maps for Quake 1 was complicated enough, but then you move forward with shaders, a few scripting languages, and so forth, and you're cutting down on qualified people. Splitting up the community with so many choices (Quake/DOOM/RTCW/UT/Jedi Knight/Half-Life) has also fractured the mod community compared to when Quake 1 was the only game in town. And most of the true innovators are being snatched up by game companies since now there are so many FPS games that they need developers for all of them.
Personally, I don't regularly "shop" at EBay, but I've heard that some of the ratings are inflated quite a bit, and that actual comment feedback is the thing to read up on (e.g. if they have more than 3 really bad comments, don't buy/sell to them).
If you add comments to players, this can lead to all sorts of abuse especially in a competitive envirornment (what you won against me? you're a cheater!), and who wants to read up on comments about playing someone? Shouldn't we just play the game?
Furthermore, while I think that IGN does a fair job, they hype more games in their previews to appease their audience. Wreckless was hyped as a GTA3 clone repeatedly, and looking on general gaming forums or news sites outside of IGN (meaning not PS2 newsgroups and whatnot where there is a high potential of conflicting interests), many gamers agree that the game is hardly as free and open ended as GTA3. You can't run people over for instance which many people get a thrill from apparently.
Just out of curiousity, can you really see the difference between 100 FPS and 120, 150, 180 or whatever FPS? I can see a difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS because one is definitely more choppy than the other, but after 60 FPS, I can't really tell any difference except in the rare instances where you have too many players moving around on the screen at once. The only advantage I can see of having more FPS at 1024x768 is knowing that you can boost the resolution even higher and get at least 60 FPS.
He might be paying for the cable television due to his cable company requiring it along with the cable modem internet service. I believe that is/was required from Time Warner in my local area.
First, HDTV does not mean widescreen (16:9) displays. Nor do widescreen displays mean HDTV. You can find a regular 4:3 television (rather 1.33:1) that does HDTV, and you can find widescreen TVs with no HDTV support (builtin or "ready"). However, most projection TVs and widescreen TVs today do support HDTV.
Also note that Playstation 2 does support widescreen televisions as well as the X-Box and GameCube. Some games have anamorphic and/or widescreen specific capabilities. Gran Turismo 3, NFL 2002, Jak and Daxter, and quite a few more support widescreen displays for the PS2. Most games for the X-Box and GameCube come with some support for widescreen TVs, and as time moves forward, I believe that most game developers will support it. X-Box and GameCube do have support for specific features of the HDTV specifications, but I don't believe that HDTV itself will be taken advantage of until 2 or 3 years at the end of this console generation's lifespan.
I don't have the game right now and I've quickly looked over various forums, but is there any hint at all that the US version of FFX will be able to use the future hard drive for the US PS2 in the manual/game? I heard that improved the game somewhat in respect to loading times and whatnot.
If I recall correctly, you can actually link 7 PS2s in GT3. One is a spectator, and the other 6 are players. I don't know too many houses with 7 TVs unless you get friends to bring them over, but I assume the feature works as advertised.
From what I remember of the series, Sisko did "die" in the sense that he can never come back. The Prophets forewarned him that his relationship with his girlfriend (forget her name at the moment) would end in sadness, and this is what they were alluding to. Personally, I and a lot of other people thought that it was very similiar to Babylon 5's ending where the main character is taken away by some higher ordered being after making a great sacrifice leaving behind a wife and child (where there were numerous other similarities between the 2 shows in the end), but oh well.
Sisko coming back? Please, let a major character "die" for once in Star Trek. It's already becoming like Marvel Comics with characters dying in one episode/movie and making reappearances in others. Technology is already trivalized in the entire series (writers just invent a whole string of words), don't let the relationships be too (oh, he died. maybe some mystical energy being will bring him back or some weird series of events). IMO, the one last thing that Star Trek has going for it is that it focuses on developing characters.
I thought the general observed policy on security issues is to give the company at least some advanced notice of the issue so they can provide a supported (and working) fix. If they show that they are working on the problem, then the person/people who notified them gives them a reasonable amount of time to test the fix or else they release the notice. It does no one any good if someone just blurts out that there's a security hole but fails to give preemptive time for the program's maintainers to fix and test the fix. I think most of the complaints against MS is that given a week (and after notifying proper channels), many people just don't get a response that even say that the issue is being looked into much less acknowledged.
Not all games are FPSes nor were they designed for 16+ players. Check out THPS3. It's pretty good for 4 players (haven't heard too much about lag, built-in Internet support via USB ethernet adapters / future Sony official ethernet addon). I find it kinda funny tho that one machine that has the capability to do Internet support out of the box does not have a game that uses it officially, and another console that does not have Internet support out of the box, not to mention an official add-on yet, does have a game that goes online and has built in support.
Rumor also has it that Halo will have a sequel/expansion pack for the X-Box that brings it online officially, so maybe it will have a more massive multiplayer (16+ players) focus.
The pause is usually due to a DVD dual layer disc when it is switching from one layer to another. Most movies/shows do this at a chapter stop or during a scene transition so you don't notice it as much. I haven't seen a DVD player that doesn't have the pause.
And as for the original poster saying that the X-Box is a better DVD player than the PS2 that doesn't tell a whole lot. The cheaper $100-$150 do a better job nowadays than both. X-Box also isn't progressive (for DVD movies, not games) so it isn't that forward thinking and eliminates one of its hyped advantages, although by the time that progressive TVs (mostly just HDTVs) are standard, we might be on X-Box 2, PS3, and GameCube 2, so it might be a moot point and might have saved consumers or MS some dollars.
The one thing that I was astonished to find out was that the number one complaint regarding the PS2's official DVD remote wasn't fixed on the X-Box official remote. The power/reset button is missing and while it isn't so much a hassle, I would figure they would have addressed it since the X-Box's remote is so much more basic than the PS2's.
The AC is right in pointing out that Anand talked about the lack of C libraries, not compiler. Also, I think you should also know that rumor has it that the developers for the PSOne wanted it that way in a sense. Most of them were programming directly to the hardware via assembly, not using the provided C libraries, so I think Sony took that as a clue and allowed them to program directly to the hardware. Unfortunately, not everyone understood the capabilities of the hardware in time, so you got technically medicore games for a while.
If you read the article more thoroughly, you should have noticed that there will be a Part II to the article with X-Box vs. GameCube.
Anyway, I really want to know if Japan has more computers than consoles. Really, I thought it was the other way around (more Japanese have consoles in their homes than PCs). Up until the Internet boom, I would say that the US also had more consoles in people's homes than PCs, but that's speculation. Anwyay, while the US is pretty fanatical about the consoles, I think the Japanese are much more so. How many times have you heard about public launch parties that drew hundreds if not thousands? GT3 had kiosks stations set up in convience stores dedicated just to the game if I remember correctly. I even heard that there were live performances of the music on the launch of FFX. I certainly haven't heard of anything to that magnitude in the US. So I guess the console market is hotter and perhaps bigger than PCs, but I don't think its because there are fewer owners of consoles than computers.
Most stores (namely CompUSA and Best Buy) will refund your money for the price difference between the initial price and the advertised one within 30 days of purchase. Or at least they used to till about last summer (the last time I made a purchase before an ad came out for a piece of hardware). I'm not talking about returning the game, but getting a refund for the advertised price. Considering the usual Christmas season, this can amount to hundreds of dollars if you purchase a few games ($60 is the retail price many stores are selling RTCW at, usually the following ads on similiar games such as Quake 3 are $30-$35 either a week or two later). Figure you purchase 4 or 5 games for friends/family/yourself, then you net a good pocket of change to buy that Dreamcast or whatever.
The real big thing to be cautious tho is if the owner has kept a copy of the CD key or has distributed it beforehand. Without a unique and individual CD key (only one person can use it at a time supposedly), you're going to be out of luck regarding Internet multiplayer until they put in a patch that doesn't check the CD key (they haven't done it yet for Q3A, which has been out for some time now, 2 years maybe?).
If you're patient, wait until this weekend's ads in Best Buy and CompUSA. They usually knock the price to around $30-$35, and my local TX stores always still have them in stock. Your mileage may vary. Or if you're really impatient, buy it now and bring the receipt back later within a few days.
Actually, all of the Sega ones are pretty much being ported cross platform. The only ones that I know of that have some exclusivity (for a limited time) are Sonic (GameCube, funny how the 2 most recongizable brand characters are appearing on the same platform) and Shenmue 2 (X-Box). Sega seems to be taking their cross-platform strategy seriously and porting most of their games across the board. Some games that are being ported to Nintendo, PS2, and X-Box (more than one platform) include Soul Caliber, Virtua Fighter, Sega GT, and Super Monkey Ball. Capcom titles may be heading over to GameCube more than X-Box (considering what's happening to RE series). Hopefully, Sega will remain a strong neutral player so that they don't upset anyone anymore (considering Sega fans are loyally divided now).
Think of how many of the great games came out two year later for most of the consoles. When did Gran Turismo 2, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc. come out? Usually over a year and half past the launch. This might have to do with the fact the games are epic and need further development time, an agreement with the console maker (so that you keep up sales), or just the fact that they want to release a game with better special effects and don't want to ruin the other games.
Do you know what was the number one selling console up till last year (even when the PS2 was out for around a year)? Yup, you guessed it, the PSOne. Oh yeah, all those PS2 games that are being raved about (GT3, GTA3, THPS3, MGS2, DMC, Ico)? It's over a year from the official launch that they're finally appearing and some of the bigger ones have yet to appear (FFX, FFXI, Jak and Daxter)...
Also, when 2 years have passed, I bet the "winner(s)" of the console wars for this generation will have been decided, so all those that waited will play catch up. Furthermore, those waiting for price cuts, more availability, more titles, or just those that waited before buying into the hype will buy it at the later date. Not everyone gets into a frenzy over launch days.