SEGA rally 2005

Sega Rally 2005 is coming to ps2,it's said to be an update of the first game with new difficulty levels and new cars aand whole hosts of shit.

Here is links to famitsu scans of pictures and stuff.Dial up users beware as these are full scans of the mag pages.

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Not bothering with Gamecube then. Bastards.

 

Bastards? WHy, because they're not going to develop for a conosle they'll make a loss on?

Why bother with the GC when it won't have online racing functionality?? Online racing is a must for racers these days. You are hardly going to have people flocking to buy an offline GC version.

If anyone's a bastard here, it's Nintendo, for acting as if online gaming deosn't exist in the first place and releasing modems for the thing but utterly failing to support them worth shit.

 

I support Nintendo in their decision. Online gaming accounts for a tiny amount of the user base. They can't afford expensive server hosting or any of the associated infrastructure costs. It's obviously better that they save some cash and try to stay alive, right now.

Sega wouldn't make a loss by porting it. They don't even have to do it themselves, just license it out to someone else. The Sega Rally name is still quite attractive to a large number of people, depsite the performance of Sega Rally Championship on DC, which didn't review or sell well (although I enjoyed it).

 

You may support Nintendo in that decision, but the fact remains that it has lost them more money to ignore online gaming and has utterly marginalized them.

The one online game there is - PSO - is hosted by SEGA, not Nintendo, and is by all accounts making money for both. Nintendo is simply delusional in ignoring the potential here.

And how do you know this? Past sales show otherwise.SEGA games besides party games and platformers have sold poorly on the GC, and sports-related titlesbombed so badly SEGA ditched the GC completely in that area.


How ironic that you mention that Ninty has no money right now so it cannot afford server hosting etc - when ignoring online gaming has had much to do with the very lack of cash flow from home sales in the first place.

 

I don't really agree with this statement at all. I have not made the move to online gaming yet, and I have a lot of racing games, and I like all of them. They seem fun enough to me.

Now, I can agree with you on this. Nintendo needs to form a solid online program now so they can stay competitive in the future. I have not made the move to online gaming, but I will in the future. I want to have more than two games that support the modem I will have to buy.

 

i understand what you say and i have the same opinion.... but without the word ''bastard'' .

 

I'm assuming you're a GC-only owner AW? In which case you wouldn't really have a choice regarding whether you want to play racers online or not. Of course I may be wrong in that assumption.

Alchy's comment that server hosting and infrasructure is so expensive is also mistaken. Having great online games does not necessarily entail huge costs - look at ChuChu Rocket.

Eh, yes. I didn't mean to flame Nintendo. I meant to play on the words used by the original poster, quoting the word 'bastard'. Nintendo are not bastards. :smt045

 

You know what they say about assuming. It makes an ass out of you and some guy named ming. I have and XBOX, GC, and PS2. Yes, I own all three, and I have a choice to go online or not. I choose not to at this point in time, however in the future I may want to start. BTW, most of the racing games I own are for XBOX.

 

Man, i know you got WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more than that. but i guess you dont have enough time to post 'em all. :smt042

 

Hehe. To be honest, no I didn't know that.

No, I thought as much which is why I said I could be completely off. It is pretty unlikely after all for a for a member of a board like this to own just the one console.

 

Well, since the topic was about current gen consoles, I mentioned that I have all three. It would have been irrelivent to say, I have (insert long list of consoles here) not just GC.

 

Not that I am calling you an ass or anything :smt023 Also, the real saying is to ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME.

 

I am soon to own all three as well,and although I have dabbled with online gaming,I have yet to commit to it as I will when the xbox pops throuh the door.

Nintendo really need to get this online shit together,the whole point of the 64dd was to be a testing source for making the gamecube online, just because that bombed online because a) it was too late and b) it's online sevices were shit, doesn't mean that online business is not profitable.If done correctly like Microsoft has done , it is fantastic and with additional content downloading now beginning, it has the potential to generate massive revenue on the most popular titles.

I'm sure Nintendo will join the online revolution, it has to bow to the pressure sooner or later, I just hope they have a solid plan to battle Sony and MS who have valuable experience of how to run the networks now.(well Sony does badly but that won't continue for long as it learns from it's mistakes.)

 

Wow this is great news, only wish the screentshots would still show up.

 

Why dont you all get a Saturn with netlink and sega rally netlink edition and quit complaining about Sega's decision :smt043

Seriously, I think this looks very interesting, online or not. Sega Rally is still the #1 racing game in my book, the handling is just superb :smt023

 

SEGA should develop it on Xbox and then downgrade and release it to the PS2. Because we know SEGA will not upgrade the graphics if they choose to port it to Xbox/GC.



PD

 

I play Sega Rally 2 almost once every week at HotZone arcade. It's the twin cab hidraulic version. :smt023

 

i wonder why they dont make it for xbox... they seem to love xbox... MAKE THE FRIGGIN GAMES FOR GAMECUBE, DONT GO WITH THE DAMN EVIL COMPANY'S!

 

Does anyone here know yet if Sega Rally 2005 is the same game that has been delayed since early last year due to "unforseen licensing issues" on behalf of the developers at Sega Rosso? I was under the impression that the working title of this long-awaited update was actually Sega Rally 3, and that it would appear on the rumoured NAOMI 3 board along with Virtua Fighter 4 as a launch title.

Then again, a year is a long time in the videogaming world and maybe Sega had missed the release margin for a coin-op version? After all, any visual problems can simply be blamed on the PS2's capabilities, which seems very likely when you consider that this title will appear in the shadows of the impressive OutRun2 conversion for Xbox (now THAT is how "arcade-perfect" should be done)!

I'm definitely excited about this announcement, but with my feet remaining firmly in reality - this could turn out to be a major disappointment, and with Jun Taniguchi mentioned as producer I'm expecting more of a Sega Rally 2 experiece as opposed to a true successor to the original game. Why can't Sega regroup Kenji Sasaki, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and the original AM3/AM ANNEX team for a PROPER sequel? This would be so much better than watching as a mediocre addition to the classic series is carried up the sales charts by its name alone...

P.S. While I am on the subject of OutRun2, is there any historical background on Sumo Digital? I know that the Xbox conversion of OutRun2 is their first game for Sega, but what did they do that was good enough to prove their worth over established units like SEGA-AM2? I've got my fingers crossed that OutRun2 won't be their last involvement with a high-profile Sega conversion, though I'd like to see if their skills can extend to beyond Microsoft's console...