The GC is being quite the bait when it comes to luring Japanese Devs.
Sony's PS2 might be the dominant platform in Japan, but developers aren't shunning the Cube.
``It's best when two or three console makers co-exist,'' said Keiji Tanaka, a managing director at Namco Ltd., the company behind Pac-Man. ``GameCube and (Microsoft's) Xbox can compete against PlayStation 2 and expand the video-game market.'
``We received many orders for video-game software for the newly launched console,'' said Jiro Sakaguchi, director of Tose Co., a Kyoto-based maker of versions of popular game software for other companies. As a result ``earnings for the fiscal year to August may exceed our initial forecast.''
``The Nintendo Gamecube is more developer-friendly than the PlayStation 2,'' said Yoichi Wada, president of Square Co., developer of the `Final Fantasy' series of PlayStation games.
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