Resident Evil 5 will be in stores about a month from now, which means the Capcom's main Resident Evil team is out of "make a game" mode and into "convince people to buy the game" mode. All kinds of interesting things get said during these pre-release barrages of interviews, and Eurogamer's recent interview with RE5 producer Masachika Kawata was no exception.

"Personally I would like to create something on Wii in the Resident Evil family," [Kawata] revealed. "At the moment we don't know and have just been working on RE5, so watch this space."

To date, Resident Evil on Wii has mostly been a barrage of ports (RE4) and remakes (Umbrella Chronicles), excellent through they were. A new, Wii-specific Resident Evil game would go a long way toward apologizing to Wii owners who aren't too thrilled that they'll be stuck with a slightly sparse port of Dead Rising while the rest of the world is gearing up for high-def co-op zombie-shooting goodness.

 

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Einherjar

Crunch40 wrote:

Why didn't they just make a Wii version of RE5?

My guess would be because Resident Evil 5 is built entirely around the online Co-op gameplay. Even if you'd accept the significant graphical downgrade involved as being "easy," remaking RE5 without the Co-Op would basically involve making an entirely new game... and in that case, you might as well make an entirely new game.

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Lynxara

Crunch40 wrote:

Why didn't they just make a Wii version of RE5?

Man, say that enough and Capcom will give us RE5: Chop Til You Drop on the RE4 engine, with every major unique RE5 feature removed.

Is that really what you want? Is it really?

Crunch40

@ Einherjar

Its not like they cant make more than 1 game at a time, their making RE5 Dead Rising CTYD Dead Rising 2 and I hear they're porting RE0, 1,2 and 3 to Wii, and that about taking out Co-Op is not exactly accurate, there is a FPS WiiWare game in the works with 4 player Co-Op, how hard could be making 2 player Co-Op for a full retail game?

@ Lynxara

I can actually picture Capcom doing that, that would be the easy thing to do, but its not impossible to make a Wii version of the game with only a a few minor downgrades, that would be the right thing to do.

Wanderer

Crunch40 wrote:

Why didn't they just make a Wii version of RE5?

Take a look at RE5. It's full to bursting with all sorts of next-generation graphic effects. As Einherjar says, if you're going to port that, it'd involve so much work that you might as well be making a brand-new game.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a viciously downgraded RE5 Wii Edition at some point in the future, admittedly.

Crunch40

Wanderer wrote:

Crunch40 wrote:

Why didn't they just make a Wii version of RE5?
Take a look at RE5. It's full to bursting with all sorts of next-generation graphic effects. As Einherjar says, if you're going to port that, it'd involve so much work that you might as well be making a brand-new game.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a viciously downgraded RE5 Wii Edition at some point in the future, admittedly.

Look at my last comment.

Crunch40

Wanderer wrote:

Trust me. I've played RE5, and you're flat-out wrong.

I've played it to, and I haven't seen anything in it that needs to be downgraded besides graphics.

JPThunder01

I'd wait till people get a chance to play the full game before making judgement... but just going by what I saw in the demo, all you'd have to do is downgrade the graphics, probably take out a few zombies here and there, but everything else would be more than possible, and the controls would be infinately better.

JPThunder01

I'd wait till people get a chance to play the full game before making judgement... but just going by what I saw in the demo, all you'd have to do is downgrade the graphics, probably take out a few zombies here and there, but everything else would be more than possible, and the controls would be infinately better.

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