RE4 Wii passes RE4 GC! Wow..Wow..Wow... RE5 for the Wii please!!!!!!

[rocketpig]

alpha_dk said:

Gnizmo said:

rocketpig said:

 

I'm not adverse to Capcom porting it at all. What I am adverse to is hearing Wii owners whine that every third party game under development isn't coming to their system.

Care to cite some examples on that one? Aside from Resident Evil 5, and a small movement for DMC4 what game have there been a big call for? Rock Band I suppose, but that was fueled by Harmonix promising a Wii version ages ago.

QFT. I don't hear many calls for most PS3/360 games. RE5 is a huge movement, and some other games get small movements (DMC, Orange Box, a few others). Really, though, Wii fans don't try to get that many games over. I don't hear calls for Army of Two, LA Noire, Red Dead Revolver, FFXIII. I would not be surprised to learn that a buch of these games have smallish movements, but for the most part people aren't calling for them.

RE5 is different, because we have experienced exactly how much better it controls with the Wiimote than dual analog, and Capcom has seen that there is a large market for RE on the Wii. One could make the argument that the Wii has the largest proven RE fanbase on any console since the original Playstation; the PS2's RE sales were lackluster compared to the PS, and within a year the Wii's sales of RE4 have almost surpassed the sales on the PS2. That coupled with 2 RE Million sellers released within a year of each other shows the console's acceptance of the series; throughout the 7 years since the first PS2 RE game was released, the series has sold 5.97M copies on the PS2. The Wii has sold 2.83M copies in less than a year, and both of the games still pull in decent numbers (~10K/week).

Whoa. Way to cherry pick your argument.

The Playstation got RE1, RE2, and RE3 before anyone else.

The Playsation 2 got RE:CV and RE4, the two best RE games last generation, after they had already released on other consoles. The other PS2 RE games received horrible ratings from pretty much everyone in the industry. Using a budget-priced RE4: Wii Edition that launched during a game drought for the Wii isn't very telling, either.

I'm not saying that there isn't a market for RE games on the Wii, there obviously is, but you're using sales figures in a vacuum and completely ignoring the many other factors that caused the PS2 RE games to not sell in much higher numbers. Expect RE5 to sell like crazy when it releases on both the 360 and PS3.