Capcom has simply accepted a realistic approach to selling games profitably. Capcom was losing money badly in 2002. If system exclusive releases aren't doing enough to boost the bottom line, it's common sense to publish on as many platforms your games will be viable on as possible.
As a publisher with a longstanding reputation for catering to hardcore gamers, it's only natural that many of their R&D staff are hardcore gamers themselves with their own personal company and hardware preferences, but ultimately corporate, not R&D makes the decisions and deals when it comes to marketing and publishing.
Hence the decision to publish RE4 on the PS2 in direct contrast to what the head developer stated. Mikami allegedly said something along the lines of I will cut off my own head if RE4 came to the Playstation 2.
The main thing that makes me question whether a port in in the works is that there hasn't been a legitimate "leak" from MS or Konami. Naturally it would be in Konami's best interests to keep it under wraps to prevent any reduction in sales for the PS3 debut. But for MS, it would be in their best interest to imply, unofficially or "accidentally" leak confirmation of a 360 port prior to release to reduce the PS3 hardware sales that are guaranteed to accompany its debut.
Timing is more important than whether the game will actually see the light of day on the 360. Six months exclusivity would not be enough time to push most gamers buy a PS3. If it was in the range of a year or more, (including the holiday 2008 season) significantly more would be likely to buy a PS3 to play the game.
The "million on day one projection" was for a planned simultaneous global release.
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