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"Multiformat"

Capcom have recently re-iterated their intention to release many multiformat games over the coming years.

This announcement in itself is nothing new, but what Capcom plan to do is to actually release these games at the same time. They plan to have all of the games pretty much the same too.

They believe that releasing all on the same date, and working on all formats at the same time will significantly reduce development costs, and advertising costs.

Another recent Capcom announcement was to state their intention to develop online games for the next generation consoles, with Resident Evil Online being in the pipeline.

If we but these two comments together, then it looks very likely that we could have online games between Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft owners sooner than we could have realistically hoped for! In fact, these games will probably be released at some point next year!

Can anyone forsee any problems with this....?

I liked the idea of sticking all of the arcade games on the dc. It was the perfect system and i think all of the capcom titles were good. Capcom are getting recognised finally.

all the best to them

I agree, I am a lucky ******. :D

Pb has one too. So that makes three.

Anyone else?

I don't think it is

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Good, I thought you were on the 'light side'. I know, Grix is a lucky *******, but I heard Er-No is selling them on import, but his thread was deleted. Do you know his e-mail? Does anyone?

that was a joke, I have cherished every Nintendo console thats been released, my only regret is not to have bought a GBC, it's very sad time in my life where i'm waiting for a UK GBA, can't believe Grix has one already!

fogmaster wrote:
> i'm looking forward to the Xbox's arrival, it's going to be the most
> powerful console on the market whether we like it or not, I just
> hope it doesn't flop out of the market like the DC, Microsoft will
> be very unhappy, but I'll buy a GC and GBA anyway, should be good
> fun, putting my N64 back in it's box and finding a nice dusty spot
> in my loft to put it in.

Was any of that sarcastic, as my tagline says, I am a Nintendo fan. Dis them and you have to go through me! *o*

i'm looking forward to the Xbox's arrival, it's going to be the most powerful console on the market whether we like it or not, I just hope it doesn't flop out of the market like the DC, Microsoft will be very unhappy, but I'll buy a GC and GBA anyway, should be good fun, putting my N64 back in it's box and finding a nice dusty spot in my loft to put it in.

fogmaster wrote:
> Maybe it will be like the Nazis, every other console which isn't an
> Xbox will be killed and eventually all consoles will be the same
> blue eyed, blonde haird console.
Sorry to anyone who might think
> i'm racist, but i'm bored.

No, the Nazi scum desrve to be bullied! But the PS2/DC/GC/GBA allience will kick their butts (Nazis always loose)

Maybe it will be like the Nazis, every other console which isn't an Xbox will be killed and eventually all consoles will be the same blue eyed, blonde haird console.
Sorry to anyone who might think i'm racist, but i'm bored.

Your Honour wrote:
> It would be good if we could play online games acroos all
> formats.

Ultimately i think it will be a very hard thing for the
> developers to do. A PC type situation will arise where not everyone
> has the same equipment.

Naa... the only problems will be (as ever) with lag...

Any console specific information can be handled by the local program...

As long as the program knows what all the information it recieves is about...

Even if the console doesnt support that particular feature, as long as the local program knows to ignore it, everything will be cool...