The Conduit is not the same kind of game. I don't just mean genre. I mean design philosophy. You can't use it to claim it wouldn't work on different types of games.

It has the same. It's just more likely to cause slowdown, but you get the same ammount.

@ameratsu: How do you conclude that splitscreen wouldn't be possible on the Wii?

From the videos of RE5 that I've seen, there are sections that require a far draw distance, a large number of enemies on screen, as well as vehicles sections with a lot going on. Again, those sections would  probably largely work for a single player. For splitscreen, they would probably have to be modified, the zombie count might have to be reduced, the amount of fog would have to be turned up, or they'd have to be omitted altogether.

Do you think Resident Evil 4: Wii edition would work in splitscreen? I really don't think that would work (from strictly a capability perspective), so I most certainly don't think RE5 would work without omissions and modifcations that would most likely change the game for the worse. That, on top of the issues I mentioned above.

"Do you think Resident Evil 4: Wii edition would work in splitscreen?"

It can, because it's a Gamecube game running on a more powerful machine.

I still have my doubts, as I do about any hypothetical Wii version actually retaining everything from the x360/ps3 versions. Any RE5 Wii port would be a shell of its former self.

Does anyone here actually think we will see RE5 on the Wii? All this talk is great, but I'm curious to know if people think it's coming. I think it will forever remain a fanboy pipe dream.

Another Resident Evil game will surely come to the Wii. Whether it's RE5 or not I don't know, but from the technical perspective it doesn't look impossible for now.

Clearly you didn't play Rogue Squadron II or III. Those had a hell of a lot of enemies, with a huge draw distance. There wasn't a lot of character detail, but it does mean that this kind of game can be pulled off on the Wii with just reducing the graphics.

They made it spectacular on the 'Cube. I haven't played RE4 Wii. Is RE5 really that much worse control wise?

Keep in mind that RSII was a launch game as well.