First of all, in defense of Gamecube, it doesn't have a wide variety of titles at the moment, but it's not impossible for a company to be willing to change that. PS2 has tons of consoles avaliable and gets tons of games, Microsoft has bought most of their support, and Nintendo is recovering from ****ty 3rd party support, and an industry now doubting Nintendo's consoles. Nintendo is getting 3rd party support, but it's more or less throw a few games on, see if they sell before giving it any real support. And it's still the first year, only the beginning. You never know.
On the other hand, Infogrames is porting the title, so it might be their decision more than Treasures. And porting it to Xbox wouldn't be the best move, considering the number of systems sold in Japan. It's right around the number of DCs sold though, but I can't say releasing it on DC was done for sales reasons. They don't seem to expect it to sell, as was shown by the D-Direct stuff. I don't think they are releasing this to make lots of money.
But with PS2, yes, if they were looking for sales that would be the way to go. Although it just may be my weird mind, but I don't see the American PS2 audience jumping over the game either. Probably just me. But IGN had something about it on PS2, like it was running on their arcade hardware or something. It might still be a possibility.
The young gamers might not jump over it, but you never know. It's the old gamers who played games like this when they were young, maybe you can get the new younger gamers to enjoy the quality of 2D shooters.
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