S.T.A.G.E. said:
Wright said:
Do you understand Microsoft never payed to keep Dead Rising exclusive, (taking it away, as you put it) right? This theory of yours can apply to other games, but not to Dead Rising.
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Ok, please explain why when I had the 360 before the original Dead Rising was 360 exclusive and the PS3 never got it.
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I have no need of explaining anything. You're the one who comes up with the theories. But since you asked, here it is. Dead Rising was originally a game for Ps2. But Keiji Inafune made a prototype so expensive and so big, Capcom had no choice but to move the project to the only HD console available for the moment: the Xbox 360. The game eventually released on that console, and made Capcom tons of money.
Do you realize that, since the game was a prototype, it was the very first game to use Capcom's MT Framework? They had no idea how to use it, and Ps3's architecture didn't help either. The cost of making a port to Ps3 was too damn huge.
Why do you think the game made it to the Wii? They just simply downgraded the game heavily, and didn't even bother with the engine: they straight ripped the RE4 Wii engine. When asked, Capcom answered: "We ported the game to the Wii because we wanted to make money".
Do you really think that having ported it to the Wii, they wouldn't have ported to the Ps3 as well? But they couldn't. The cost was way too high. That's why, later, Dead Rising 2 appeared on the Ps3. It was no theory of moneyhat of yours. It was simply that they had progressed with the MT Framework. Dead Rising 2 wasn't a prototype that went from PS2 to 360. Dead Rising 2 was built right from the beginning with a next-gen tech. That's why Off The record appeared on Ps3 as well, without complains of no one.
The *only* thing you could argue MS moneyhatted, and Capcom didn't say so, was the DR2 DLC. But Capcom stated that they did it for fans of the original game (thus screwing the Wii owners since they didn't plan to port DR2 to the Wii), so you can bet that either MS payed for it, or Capcom just felt like milking the 360 fanbase.
Capcom could have made Dead Rising 3 on their own, but Microsoft chose to fund the project and publish it. So, no, Dead Rising is not a moneyhatted franchise from Microsoft.