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At the moment, Rumour has it that Microsoft are looking to get Capcom and Sega, just like they did with Rare.
Its not so easy to push these rumours aside when a member of Microsoft (Robbie Bach ?) mentioned that Rare were only to be the first of a number of developers Microsoft are looking to buy.

Has to be said, if Microsoft are successful in adding both Capcom and Sega as exclusive developers, the competition are in real trouble.
Both companies have very strong titles to their names. Especially Sega with their excellent games.
Then of course Capcom are already providing us with Steel Battalion, Capcom Vs SNK and Marvel Vs Capcom and we all know what other games they are responsible for. :-)

Everytime someone does a positive post about the Xbox Maverick comes along and always says, "yes but the GameCube..." so why can't I? If you read both paragraphs then you will see that they are great games unless of course you have played them before. It wasn't designed to put my views across it was just some general information about me as I know you all love me :D

That post was nothing to do with whether they would appeal to you Garbe, it was showing that Sega are supporting the Gamecube as much as they are the Xbox.

Oh I am going to be missing out on a lot there then! I have a Dreamcast with both Shenmues, Crazy Taxi 1 and soon 2, I am getting Skies of Arcadia this week and I don't want PSO until I get broadband, also I am getting Sonic Adventure 2 soon :). I wasn't aware that Shenmue 1 was being re-released, isn't it just Shenmue 2X? The Virtua Fighter RPG should be pretty good but once again there isn't anything on that list that interests me as I have a Dreamcast.

On the other hand... If you haven't played Skies of Arcadia then you are in for a very big treat as it is the best RPG to date (unless Morrowind on Xbox is any better), I have the Dreamcast demo and I have located this very rare title to pick up this week :) Also the Shenmue games are THE BEST I have ever played and they should be re-done so that everyone can experience these amazing titles.

Aye! Be some kind of walking fact machine! Arr!

SEga Soccor Slams on the Cube aswell.

then there is the PHantasy Star online special edition the Gamecube is only getting.

The Exclusive rights to Skies of Arcadia and no less than 4 Sonic games including one game package.

Then there is Beach Spikers and other sports titles.

Phantasy Star card battles.

The Super Monkey Ball series.

The first 2 crazy taxi games and maybe later on the third.

Shenmue may still be multi-format via clever trickery.

Virtual Fighter RPG on the Gamecube ONLY.

Virtual Striker as well.

Sonic Team (Phantasy Star, Sonic and NiGHTS) love to be quite honest just nintendo.

Amusment vision (Virtual Striker and Super Monkey Ball) Obviously big Ninty fans.

And the name escapes me for now but the very large shenmue team (Shenmue, Virtual Fighter) releasing a number of games for cube... they seem to like everyone.

Savatt78 wrote:
> Crazy Taxi 3 - Played the first. Absolute tripe.
> Jet Set Radio Future - Great game.
> Toejam And Earl 3 - Heard nothing.
> Shenmue 2 - Great game. Rumoured for GC release.
> Panzer Dragoon Orta - Heard nothing.
> Sega GT 2002 - Out on GC.
> Sega Soccer Slam - Heard nothing.
> House Of The Dead 3 - Played it in the arcades. Absolute tripe.
> NBA 2K2 - Heard nothing.
> Phantasy Star Online V2 - Out on GC.
> Virtua Fighter 4.1 - Heard nothing.
> Beach Spikers - That's a GC exclusive.
> Gun Valkyrie - Heard nothing.

Hmm.. most of those I've heard nothing about, and I'm sure there's an equally good list out on and set for GC too. I doubt SEGA are going anywhere, they've rejected MS once before.

> Plus I think theres other sports games to add to that too. So it
> looks like MS and Sega have a good working relationship. So I
> certainly wouldn't bet on these rumours being strictly untrue.

Likewise with Nintendo, plus there's the matter of the Triforce and the two of them working together closely on games like F-Zero GC.

gamezfreak wrote:
> Whitestripes wrote:
> Actually they use the Triforce board with Namco and Nintendo, and
> Namco have always supplied the leading Arcade boards.
>
> Incorrect.
>
> The NEW Sega arcade machines now use the xbox hardware and board.

Except for the Triforce one... SEGA are using both.

Umm I don't know about you but Capcom already have a contract with Nintendo, stating that for the contract to expire they need to devlop 6 Resident Evil games for the GC, so far they've olny released 1.
So you money hungry MS fans can wait a while long cause they aren't for sale yet.

The Capcom rumour seems t have been started by Special Reserve cause I can find nothing else on the net.

As for Sega, very unlikely, they've tryed once and been told to feck off, it's very unlikely that Sega would go 1st party for any console. Gamecube is actually being treated a lot better than it seems by Sega, oh and Beach Spikers is a Gamecube exclusive. We're getting

Super Monkey Ball
Super Monkey Ball 2
Sega Soccer Slam
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Sonic Adventure 3
Sonic Mega Pack
Crazy Taxi
Virtua Fighter RPG
Phantasy star Online 1+2
Beach Spikers
Virtua Striker ver 2002
NBA 2k2
F-Zero

and I'm sure there's more, just can't remember them.

Whitestripes wrote:
> Actually they use the Triforce board with Namco and Nintendo, and
> Namco have always supplied the leading Arcade boards.

Incorrect.

The NEW Sega arcade machines now use the xbox hardware and board.