Don't get frustrated dude, I bet most people that say "it can't handle it" don't even know what a texel is

So do you think the wii can handle resident evil 5?

It would take reduced texture resolution, and lower polygon count, but a lot of the effects would likely still be the same, since all three systems have similar systems to using effects.

Yet reduced is not the same as not handling something. That would mean there is something vital that can't be duplicated in any apreciable way. We don't know there is something like that in RE5, and Capcom hasn't really said there would be (which makes all the claims the Wii can't handle it baseless*).

*Not that it could, but that the information isn't there to support the supposition that it can't. 

This thread will not be locked, and I ask that fights be kept to a minimum.

I love my Wii and I love the RE series, but I'll probably get it for 360.

I am curious though what a "reduced" version of RE5 would be like on Wii. Most of you do realize that RE4 and Okami were developed on less powerful hardware(GC, PS2) right? Which made them easier to port to Wii than taking a game developed on more powerful hardware and then stripping away code and assets until it works on less powerful hardware.

I'm not saying don't put RE5 on Wii but how much are you willing to sacrifice? Sure there's the business side of it(increasing profits, satisfying fans, reaching a larger audience, etc.) but I think the quality of RE5:Wii Edition would suffer(yes I know it's not out yet and it's too early to say Wii can't handle it, but still...).

If Capcom released RE:UC 2, put as much effort in to it as RE4/5, and improved it tremendously would that be enough?

I signed this petition way back when, and I own a Wii. I bought RE4 Wii Edition too. After seeing the latest RE5 trailer, I'm not sure it SHOULD come to the Wii. Even if it did, and it came out a month earlier, I would STILL wait for a PS3/360 version.

Not if it's on rails...

 Haha. What?

 I agree that petitions are, indeed, a great excercise of power, but I would disagree with your last statement.  I dislike these type of online petitions where one person may make several signatures. I was unaware that disliking them indicated that I fear having fans deciding what consoles games appear on!

Anyhow a bit more on topic. I think it'd be great to have a version on the Wii, but only if enough time and resources were devouted to it. As a fan of the RE series, I'd gladly buy both the Wii and PS3 versions 

In my opinion instead of resident evil 5 there should be a resident evil 4.5 that will continue the story of resident evil 4 and it could be a prequel or a side story of resident evil 5 that way everybody would be happy and there would be no reason of porting resident evil 5 on the wii.

Just because there would be a side game doesn't mean there would be no reason to develop a Wii verison of 5, along with the side game.