kber81, Gballzack said nothing wrong. You're the one jumping out of line on this issue.

I'll say this again. I'm one of the biggest (if not the biggest) Ninty fanboy on this site - and I think there is about 5% chance of RE5 coming to the Wii - in its current form anyway.

Capcom have had a couple of very successful titles on the 360 - one of which was a zombie title. There is plenty of an audience out there (on every console) for good zombie/horror titles.

For Capcom to MAXIMISE profit, it makes sense for them to hit all the major platforms. I can see studios treating the 360/PS3 as the same console (in general), maybe with some exclusive features/content on each.

The Wii will also get its own games - and it is already. RE4 is simply a test - and the only reason its happening, is because the Wii architecture is so close to the GC architecture. A port is dead easy, and dead cheap. No issues there. Porting RE4 to te 360/PS3 is a different story - they would need to upgrade the gfx, and that's expensive. Better off to work on RE5 instead.

Umbrella Chronicles is a MAJOR title. As major as RE5. It does reuse some content/locations, but that just makes development more efficient - and allows for a larger game, developed for less money.

The game being on rails does not dilute or weaken the game - it actually strengthens it, and potentially will lead to a LOT more sales (becomes much more accessible). The RE brand hasn't been selling that well recently - RE4 sold a remarkably SMALL number of units, considering it is rated as one of the best games ever made and came to the PS2, PC & GC.

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RE5 will do really well on the 360 & PS3 (probably an Xmas '08 title?), and I think RE:UC will do really well on the Wii (look at the "Most wanted votes" on this board - its sitting at #10, just behind Mass Effect & Halo3. And this with little recent media released).

What happens after that, is anyone's guess. Whether we get an UC II on the Wii, RE5 ported (or even changed to be on rails?) - or get UC ported to the PS3/360... who knows. 

"They're not suddenly gonna go completely away from their target screens and vidoes. "

Companies do this all the time, including Squaresoft in 1995 with their "FF7" target rendering using FF6 characters in 3D. Resident Evil 2 also had a differing version and RE4 had to be scrapped three times during development and then HEY it got ported to a significantly weaker platform.

Just because a videogame is shown or even demonstrated does not mean that platform will be it's final resting place. These companies know they have to respond to the market and this market is canting in Nintendo's direction, especially in Japan, where both of my aforementioned companies are located.

Saying the sales numbers don't matter on a website that is devoted to the discussion of these sales numbers is just stupid.

Lol @ Kber81, I don't know what screen shots you've seen or what you think the graphical capabilities of the Wii are but those cut scenes could easily be handled by the Wii (just 480dpi). If they hadn't decided on what platforms to make it yet then why would they have made graphics that were exclusive to the Wii when the Wii's stats weren't even out yet? Perhaps you'd like to offer some reasoning to your outbursts instead of decreeing people's bans.

And what is your logic behind 360/PS3 being Resident Evil's target audiences? Were you unaware of the Gamecube's library of RE games? Guess all the Gamecube owners went and bought 360s and PS3s, lol.

For me it's obvious RE5 will look great, so all these statements of Gball are pure bias as for me. The point is she wants reactions similar to mine and yours. If you can't see it you are blind. All this "he'll be gone as Legend11 soon" statements are ridiculous and clearly shows her silly attitude. All her posts go in the same manner. RE4 was one of most impressive games on GC also previous games looked great. Problem of Gballzack is this particular title goes to PS3. Only PS3/X360 version can suck.

Truth is noone knows anything about this title but one thing is sure - graphics will be on the next gen level. If RE5 will be portet (very likely) it goes to X360. DS success is based on young audience and I think Wii will go same way.

Anyway I'll try to ignore her to cut down these fanboys fights.

Your assertion that the DS's success is based on younger gamers is false. Its success is based on a wide variety of audience that the DS caters to, including older people, with titles such as Brain Age and such, non-gamers and women, with titles like Nintendogs, and with hardcore gamers, unless Super Mario, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Sonic the Hedgehog, Megaman et al. are suddenly not hardcore games anymore. A combination of intensely strong first party and intensely strong third party keeps the DS library fresh and desired, leading to platform success across the board.

The "DS is successful solely because of children" talking point is something you want to believe and it is something that you wish were real. But Reality hates it. Reality also hates you, and wants you off his lawn.

if she wants reactions such as yours, then you're playing right into her hands.

if it bothers you then ignore this thread and talk in others 

Actually she needs me only to generate all this "support for poor Gballzack's" posts... anyway you are right. I should quit.

You want a circle of Nintendo admirers... let it be.

I will stay out of this war of words between Gball and Kber but I, like Deguello, take issue with the DS remark that Kber made. I just flies in the face of reason. The "kids market" is not even the majority of the games market. Hasn't been for quite some time. To imply that 30% of the games industries market is powering the DS' insane sales is well crazy. The DS has the broadest appeal of any video game system, console or portable, on the market. Kids are not buying all of those Brain Training games.

Locked due to Gballzak and others becoming too 'tard happy with their stupidity.