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twesterm on 19 September 2007
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chriscox1121 said:
Considering the generosity of Nintendo owners towards Capcom via RE4. I wouldn't be suprised if they were going to release RE5 on the Wii. Remember, this whole thing is about cash.

Jesus people, get this idea out of your heads. I'm a huge Wii fan but accept that RE5: Wii will never happen. Never. The developers would have to do one of two things to get RE5 on the Wii:

  1. Downgrade the character models, environments, and textures to something close to PS1 maybe early PS2 quality. That means they would have to remake everything and it would only end up launch PS2 quality at best. You remember the laugh everyone had at the Cruis'n screens a while back right? A game that looked like that would get the exact same treatment and the game would not sell. It's true that graphics shouldn't expect gameplay, but there is a certain bar that developers should hit and launch PS2 graphics on the Wii isn't it.
  2. They would have to downgrade the character models, environments, and textures still but not as much because they changed the environments and encounters (mainly to deal with less enemies and models on screen at any time). Even with the improved control scheme this would instantly be the inferior version because it would have dumbed down gameplay. It just plain wouldn't sell because why would anyone buy a worse version of a game when the better true version is out there? It would be like if they released RE4: Wii without the PS2 content and took three enemies out of every encounter.
So there you have it. Stop thinking RE5 for the Wii is going to happen. That interview just says that they know there's interest in RE Wii games and they are considering more RE Wii games, not RE5 for the Wii. You're absolutely right that it's all about the cash and they simply wouldn't make the cash back on RE5: Wii Edition because they would have to remake the entire game and either way it would be a far inferior version to the 360 and PS3 versions. Just think next time before you type people.