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brute on 10 January 2008
ClaudeLv250 said:
I think a RE5 Wii Edition is bound to happen. Maybe not day and date with the PS360 game but this is Capcom we're talking about. They're a little notorious for things like this. That's why I choose not to dwell on the issue, it's actually more unlikely that Capcom wouldn't port RE5 for free money than do so.

I think what people should be keeping an eye out for instead is a RE4-style RE2 remake.

yeah RE2 with RE4 typre gameplay would be really awesome



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valen200 on 10 January 2008
Parokki said:
johnsobas said:
i dunno why people want RE5 so badly, it would be much better if Capcom made a game ground up for the Wii.

In a perfect world that would be preferable, but realistically it would probably end up as a cheap spinoff done by a second rate development team. We can see from Umbrella Chronicles that such a game can still be good, but does anyone seriously think RE5 won't be better? The people who started the Resident Evil franchise and returned to make it great again with RE4 might have left the company, but Capcom is still a top notch developer and won't screw up their biggest franchise.

Namco decided we didn't want Soul Calibur 4 (although a port is still possible), but rather a new Wii exclusive based on the Soul Calibur IP. Do I have to tell you how well that went?

dschumm has an excellent point with Umbrella Chronicles and the zapper btw. There will soon be over a million Wii owners with zappers, and they're going to check what other games support their new peripheral. So far there are only 3 notable lightgun games on the Wii, and UC is clearly the best out of them.

  Well, I know that I usually highly reccomend UC to customers who are interested in either lightgun games ot M titles. The opposite ocurs when I spot some unsuspecting parent holding a copy of Chicken Shoot. I probably hold the record for the number of times a retail worker has used the phrase "I'm begging you, please don't buy that."  

 



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Smash_Brother on 10 January 2008

Honestly, I know the PS360 is more the "gritty realistic market", but it's for that reason that I wouldn't be surprised if RE5 could get lost in the shuffle of the sheer number of games we have in the same/similar genres.

It's happened in the past that games like this have gone mostly unnoticed when the market is flooded with similar titles (like some of the party games on the Wii).

That aside, it makes little to no sense to build up attention to the RE franchise on the Wii and then move the franchise to another console.

Frankly, I've never understood why companies will do this, like how Konami releases Castlevania games on the DS AND the PSP, so if you're a Castlevania fan, you have to buy both if you want to play all the games. Logic dictates that you should just have to buy one console to get all the games from a certain franchise, otherwise you're basically forcing your fans to buy additional consoles that they don't necessarily want.



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clerk on 10 January 2008

I don't think there will be a Wii version of RE5. It would suffer too much.

What I think will happen, is that Capcom will make a unique RE game for the Wii, using a refined RE4 engine.



valen200 on 10 January 2008
Smash_Brother said:
Honestly, I know the PS360 is more the "gritty realistic market", but it's for that reason that I wouldn't be surprised if RE5 could get lost in the shuffle of the sheer number of games we have in the same/similar genres.

It's happened in the past that games like this have gone mostly unnoticed when the market is flooded with similar titles (like some of the party games on the Wii).

That aside, it makes little to no sense to build up attention to the RE franchise on the Wii and then move the franchise to another console.

Frankly, I've never understood why companies will do this, like how Konami releases Castlevania games on the DS AND the PSP, so if you're a Castlevania fan, you have to buy both if you want to play all the games. Logic dictates that you should just have to buy one console to get all the games from a certain franchise, otherwise you're basically forcing your fans to buy additional consoles that they don't necessarily want.

I don't really see a RE game getting lost in the shuffle. It's a big enough name and the fans are decently dedicated.I know a guy who wants a Wii soley for Monster Hunter 3. The hardcore will follow a franchise. It does annoy me perhaps that the system I own will probably not get Re5 however my brother has Ps3 and my Roomate has 360. In either case I am set.

 

edit- @ clerk - I see a Re 5 spin-off or otherwise alternate storline to be a strong possibility. Both RE games have done well and I expect more will show up by generations end. 

 



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Girl Gamer Elite on 11 January 2008

The Wii, honestly deserves this game though. It'd be a pity to see it put on consoles without the rest of the franchise.



Lingyis on 11 January 2008

personally , i think remakes work just as well as new releases. capcom can just do what SE has been doing for FF on the DS. why bother with spin-offs when remakes can make you just as much dough and low risk endeavor at that.



the Wii is an epidemic.

Parokki on 11 January 2008
clerk said:
I don't think there will be a Wii version of RE5. It would suffer too much.

What I think will happen, is that Capcom will make a unique RE game for the Wii, using a refined RE4 engine.

How would it suffer exactly? SD graphics instead of HD graphics and what? 

The HD consoles are technically capable of running games with larger areas or more moving objects than the Wii or the last gen consoles, but so far we have maybe ten titles that have taken of this, and RE5 doesn't look like it'll be one of them.



BengaBenga on 11 January 2008
Lingyis said:
personally , i think remakes work just as well as new releases. capcom can just do what SE has been doing for FF on the DS. why bother with spin-offs when remakes can make you just as much dough and low risk endeavor at that.

Well a RE2 Remake seems probable, since they probably left that game out of Umbrella Chronicles for a reason. Or they could, as been suggested earlier, make RE2 and 3 one game, because it takes place at the same time at the same place (actually part of RE3 takes place before 2 and part of it afterwards, quite a strange storyline).

But to remake those to Wii standards migh cost about the same as make a complete new game.



JoeJ on 11 January 2008

I do have to say that as a PC gamer, I hadn't been too interested in the RE series before I got RE:4 on the Wii. The Wii-mote input really improved the feel of the game for me and I'd definitely chose a graphically inferior Wii version over a graphically superior X360/PS3 version with classic controls.

Games like System Shock 2 set an atmosphere and mood better than most games today, and with a lot fewer resources than the Wii. I'm sure that if Capcom wanted to, and with careful art direction, the Wii could support the atmosphere and mood of RE:5 enough for a proper port.