Resident Evil 5 Wii: clearer info on recent interviews

I am someone of relatively high authority over issues like this (yes, believe it or not even being in the US I have daily discussions over future product strategy with both Japanese and US R&D folks and our executive team worldwide).

Your petition is a great effort and we greatly appreciate the passion you've shown to the RE brand. I'm pleased you've made the effort and I'd like to thank you for it if it was your doing.

As with pleas for several other Wii projects from fans, we certainly recognize that there is a demand for RE5 on the Wii. Your petition further validates our assumptions (as do the weekly posts in our Ask Capcom section that effectively ask the same thing). I locked your post because these threads inevitably become circular arguments among fans that are repetitive and non-constructive.

At the same time, there really is nothing more I or anyone else at Capcom can do about it at this time (it doesn't matter how high up the chain you go). We are 100% completely out of appropriate development resources to do additional projects in the near term beyond what's currently in the pipeline.

Does that mean it might not happen eventually in spite of the hardware challenges? Well, we don't know yet. And because we don't know, for us to say "sure, we'll do it" and set off slews of speculation and/or even potential heartbreak if the project never comes to be, doesn't do our fans or us any favors.

So for now, I continue to focus on what we know and that is that RE5 is coming to 360 and PS3. To say anything beyond that at this time really wouldn't be fair to you or the rest of the fans.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't still hope or be vocal. It just means we can't make any statements or commitments regarding RE5 for Wii.

-Christian"

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I am a member of the "Ask Capcom" forum and I have seen that everything he is saying is true. You don't know how many topics have been made in that forum and in forums across the world saying "Capcom needs to bring RE5 to the Wii" they are literally everywhere. The good news is that Capcom is finally taking notice of this and the big petition. He says to not give up hope and that they cannot confirm or deny RE5 on the Wii yet because it really is a possibility with the demand rising and the awareness of Capcom. It is just safer for them at this point to not make any extra announcements on the game coming to any other system besides 360 and PS3. Add this to the interview I posted below with Factor 5 on the Wii's graphic power, I can see a connect the dots situation rising.

If you ask me, it is only a matter of time before Resident Evil 5 is Wii bound.
Posted by Metaldave at 12:20 AM
51 comments:
Anonymous said...
I think it's a definite to come out but will prob be maybe a year after the PS3 and 360 releases.

God knows it's needed with some of the sh*t that's been released so far!

5:23 AM, September 12, 2007
Metaldave said...
Hahahaha, I guess so. There is a demand for this game on the Wii though and what people don't realize is that most "Hardcore" gamers have a Wii/360 so to think it won't sell is crazy.

7:48 AM, September 12, 2007
TanookiTravis said...
Isn't RE5 not coming out for the 360 and PS3 until 2009? If we don't get RE5 on the Wii until a year after that then to be honest I'm not sure it will matter much for the next long while.

At this point it would be okay to assume that anyone who has purchased RE4 for the Wii would buy it plus whoever else. So Capcom has at least 700,000 some sales for the game already. At least I think that's what RE4 Wii Edition has sold so far. Is that a safe assumption?

11:06 AM, September 12, 2007
Metaldave said...
It's now closer to 800,000 worldwide for RE4 Wii, so yeah those sales plus the fact that it is RE5. It would probably sell 1 million easy on Wii. As far as 2009 for RE5,(I thought it was late 2008) I think Capcom could pull some strings and get the game out within a reasonable time frame after the release of the PS3 and 360 versions.

3:06 PM, September 12, 2007
HEX said...
Whenever it does come out i will buy it, but im hoping please capcom let it out for the wii.

1:35 PM, September 13, 2007
Anonymous said...
didnt you guys know about thr gamebryo graphics engine has been ported to wii this engine is what made oblivion so there is no problem with graphics anymore not that there was i see alot of amazing looking visuals coming out on wii with out this game engine but as far as res 5 this is a very easy task now dosnt matter if its built from ground up still be able to port to wii

9:33 AM, September 14, 2007
Metaldave said...
Yes I know about the Gamebyro engine ported to the Wii. RE5 isn't running on that engine so I really don't think you can think of that as a related story. Its great news no doubt, being that 360 games will be able to be ported over without making the game from the ground up for the Wii. RE5

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[yeehel]

why are all the 360 fans and ps3 fans getting mad about this the wii is years head in game play . peole think wii sucks just cuz they don't have one trust me I bought a 360 before I had bought a wii and my wii dominates the 360 in game play all my 360 does is stay on the shelf and it watches me play wii

[DEMONATA1995]

Wgy would they need to remove parts? RE5 is not a big game although they might have to remove some parts because RE5 has much larger areas than RE4 but lowering the graphics nintendo fans can live with that.

[TVZombie3000]

wii good, 360 and ps3 bad

[kirbymangx]

i can barely play re5 after i played re4 on the wii i hate that red dot movin so slow when i could aim with the mote and headshot every time

but it needs to come on the wii ill but it again just 4 the fun of it

[jose1aztk]

I think its coming to Wii U

[reece798able]

if RE5 comes out on wii i will pester my mum for years to get it for me :P im 14 and still not allowed to go to school on my own :o BUT I WANT THIS SO BAD I DONT HAVE A PS3 OR XBOX360!!

[reece798able]

@tyrannitar49 rebecca and billy have a second game its caled resident evil the umbrella chronicles for the wii :P and if you ask theres 2 much chris and chris has had 3 games re1 code veronica and 5

[tyrannitar49]

You know what i hate they havent make a game with rebeca and billy again i mean jill claire leon and chris got at least 2 game why cant rebeca and and billy

[asdxar]

@elyk249 yea. RE4 was fantastic but both the chronicle games were mediocre at best but still kind of good. I guess capcom probably think that if the chronicles won't sell well then no RE game will. it makes me sad sometimes :(

[elyk249]

To be honest, i am a little upset wii didnt get a re5 (no pun intended) but hey, we have 3 quality resident evil games on the wii so its only fair the 360 and ps3 take a bite out of the franchise, and hey the next resident evil game supposedly has claire and leon back together so who knows maybe leon will return to the wii

[Sancriswolffox]

lol he he he he hoo hoo he tee hee he he (YEE HEEK)

[777prayser]

@DEMONATA1995 yeah