Do you think Resident Evil 5 will evantually be ported to Wii?

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Leetgeek said:

Viper1 said:
Aside from compromising the graphics...what else would be compromised? If it dropped to RE4 level graphics, I don't think that would really be a bad thing.

 

Indeed re4 was a great looking game but.... They would need to do a lot more then just lower texture rez to make this work on Wii. There would need to be a serious poly count drop as well.

 

Not necessarily. Have you heard of normal mapping (also see bump mapping)?

Here is the model for Ada Wong, ripped from the PC version of Resident Evil 4 and loaded into Poser as an .OBJ file. Notice how blocky the model is. This model ends up looking as smooth as it does in-game thanks to bump maps, which are essentially greyscale bitmaps with height data. When we consider that the Wii is running at a much lower resolution than the HD consoles, I'm confident that RE5 will be possible on it.