lilbroex said:
7 were on the PS2. It saddens me to this day that RE5 outsold RE4.It was no where near as good. Though this is beside the point of the article. They've left Nintendo in the dust when game were showing such growing success and it still ultimately cost them Mikami. |
The Resident Evil games have always done much better on Sony platforms and best now on Playstation + XBox.
Their "decision" to leave Nintendo in the dust worked out fine, I'd say, though Wii U will almost certainly get some kind of port of RE6 anyway.
How much of his own money did Mikami put into RE4? He spent millions of Capcom's dollars and years of development, why shouldn't Capcom have a say?
It's not like they didn't give Nintendo a fair shot, RE0 and REMake were exclusive, Viewtiful Joe was a 1+ year plus exclusive. P.N. 03 and Killer 7 largely flopped. The GameCube as a platform was largely a dissapointment barely selling 20 million consoles by 2005 versus 100 million for PS2, what's Capcom supposed to do? RE4 to that date was probably the biggest budget project they'd take on. The GameCube still got an exclusivity window on the game and the best version.
Lets run a business where you give me all the financing in millions of dollars and I turn around and tell you I don't feel like releasing our product in the biggest market, a decision that will freeze out 60% of your business and lets see if you're smiling about it. Somehow I doubt it.
This is business, not elementary school yard friendships. Mikami should've understood IMO, if he was embarrassed it was his own fault for making outlandish statements to the press in the first place.
