History repeating itself :)

Just like the Xbox linked to SEGA originally, look's like the 360 is doing the same...


http://www.gamespot.com/arcade/action/houseofthedead4/news_6129092.html

 

wouldnt suprise me, segas had sorta a deal with microsoft since the dreamcast inclusion of windows ce dev enviorment, plus i belive the leaked e3 video had half those games pretty much coming to x-box 360. What was funny was before x-box came out they had it demoed at comic con and one of the reps there said it could play dreamcast games.

 

Man, Sega should have teamed with Nintendo instead of MS:smt022.

 

I remember hearing stories about ms working with sega to make the xbox compatible with dc games. Theirs probably (?) no truth to it, but its fun to think that somewhere out their is an xbox proto that plays dc games.

Why? Other then them both being known as companies from the 'good old days', what benefit would their have been in sega teaming up with its former rival who in itself was in decline from a market share perspective?

 

Because Sega's games sold very poorly on the original Xbox, Nintendo's core userbase seem to appreciate the type of games Sega develop.

 

Sega have worked together with Nintendo to an extent anyway - look at F-Zero GX, which was made by Amusement Vision.

 

Indeed, I've spoken about this before as I have Hardware thats related to this:

http://www.system16.com/sega/hrdw_chihiro.html

Not true, SEGA are very happy with sales figures on Xbox.

 

They are only happy because of the amount of money Microsoft offered on a contractual basis.

The sales of Gunvalkyrie, HOTD3, Outrun 2, PD Orta were all atrocious, Its almost not worth them developing original titles for the system, Luckily a few were Chihiro ports.

 

Well, now that's interesting stuff.
First sega had control but some microsoft influence.
Then microsoft had control, with some sega software
then there's Chihiro, which is like the "Super Dreamcast" that's discussed in the Dreamcast2 topic - but is really an Xbox
I just have to see how much dreamcastosity the 360 has. If it's more similar to the DC than the original big black box, it would be one hell of a cool machine, at least softwarewise.
Boy, that's exciting.

 

if i could afford it i would buy a Chihiro and use it as a dreamcast to play the DC games, since that would be in my mind fucking awesome :-D (sorry i like to dream )

 

Nah, Chihiro is just an Xbox with upgradable RAM module and a GD-Rom drive. It's a standard .xbe file that's contained on the GD disk.

 

wasnt there an rumor that some team let the Chihiro games run on an modded Xbox?

 

Indeed, apparently Chihiro games that only require 64mb will run fine on an Xbox, just need to put the .xbe (extracted from the GD via a DC) onto disk/HDD. I'm sure that any Chihiro games requiring 128mb will run fine on a debug/128 mb modded Xbox.

 

Wasnt this Crazy taxi 3 that started that?

Might of as well just stuck in a debug xbox with some higher quality parts and made a mint profit Or made it dead cheap and got loads of arcade games on it!

 

sonic and mario togheter!

 

Dude, you just gave me a seriously sick and very icky, dirty mental image, and now I'm gonna have to go wash myself.

:no It sucks to have such a vivid imagination.... *shudders.

But going back on topic -
The Chihiro does have GD-Rom hardware, but Xbox does not. I wonder if the Xbox could have initially been planned to have GDs and DVD-size GDs. The dreamcast compatibility would have made me buy one in a flash.

 

*sonic kisses mario*

 

:smt043:smt043:smt043

oooh that reminds me of a cover of powerplayer( a danish version of superplay or something) where Sonic and Mario almost hold hands and did the V sign with there hands :smt043:smt043:smt043:no

it makes me laugh just thinking of it

 

All change again, depending on who you believe...

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1104/

 

A GD drive, thats the relation between Xbox and Dreamcast ?

Dude, if the X had a SH6 or a VR4 maybe, but its almost completely different.

Obviosly, it would be a different thing if the team that designed the black belt also had desinged the Xbox or the X360