No plans for Wii version of Resident Evil 5

PALGN News | And Capcom is already talking about a sequel.

The makers of the ridiculously successful Resident Evil series, Capcom, has confirmed that it currently has no plans to make a Wii port of the game, and seems more content making standalone titles for the console. The producer of Resident Evil 5 and the upcoming Lost Planet 2, Jun Takeuchi, told Kotaku that "With the difference between hardware specs for the Wii and the PS3, porting [of Resident Evil 5] might be hard. We currently have no plans."

Takeuchi also spoke about the initial plans for the inevitable sequel, Resident Evil 6, and the direction it may take.

"Honestly, the producer for Resident Evil 6 hasn't been decided yet. I think, while Resident Evil 4 is a great game, its appeal was limited somewhat to maniac players. With RE5, I wanted to bring the series to a larger audience. I think its important to do the same for the next RE."

So it seems that those fans who wanted a return to the the sorts of gameplay present in the early Resident Evil games may be disappointed, with Takeuchi suggesting the series is destined to stay in its current form of having a more action-oriented focus with less emphasis on scares, exploration and puzzles. However, you can hardly blame Capcom for giving consumers what they want as Resident Evil 5 has shipped 5 million copies worldwide, and that's without availability on the Wii.

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11 Comments

Tetsuwan

2 years ago

Thanks god! The game isn't even worthy of a directors cut IMHO!

waz79

2 years ago

i think its really sad, but really fortunate, that the Wii won't get a game thats RE in name only.

We get Silent Hill, a proper horror experience.

stick_theory

2 years ago

Awww, I really liked RE5, it is different to the others so it's kinda like a breather. But now RE has possibly 5 million new fans, perhaps the series can be brought back to the RE fundamentals progressively.

Or simply just remake the originals with the RE5 engine.

drinniol

2 years ago

RE fundamentals like... **** controls? Ridiculously cliche zombies? Clunky menus?

donovan515

2 years ago

Tetsuwan wrote

Thanks god! The game isn't even worthy of a directors cut IMHO!

Funny thing that. Resident Evil 5 will get a Director's Cut in March next year.

ShortRaver

2 years ago

Amazing that when RE4 and RE5 came out, everyone thought they were the greatest releases on earth and that the predecessors never compared.

They're not even the same games...

The biggest thing I miss from the RE1-2 was the loss of alternate playable characters, which added more perspective on the events at hand in each release.

Perhaps they can bring that back somehow in RE6!

stick_theory

2 years ago

drinniol wrote

RE fundamentals like... **** controls? Ridiculously cliche zombies? Clunky menus?

Can make no-one happy (-_-)

celikaz

2 years ago

thank god, this has been going long enuff... getting tired of hearing sites wining about wanting re5 on the wii.

Capcoms fault too, they kept teasing by saying may, maybe and shurgs, shouldve end this a long time ago capcom!

Gamesta

2 years ago

As much as I LOVED RE4 and was a little disppointed with RE5, I don't think I'll buy to many more RE's if they stay the way they are.

Sucks really.If the next GTA isn't a **** load more fun than GTIV I will likely stop buying GTA's and sadly the same may happen to RE.

Shame that so many GREAT series of yesteryear are becoming totally different an imo turning into series I no longer want to play.

But I guess that's what we have to live with now that games cost so much and take so long to make.

waz79

2 years ago

@Gamesta, sure its price. And its also the influence of the audience you now have on the PS3 and 360.

The widely misheld belief (imo) is that only online multiplayer shooters will sell. Hence this what everything becomes.

Wedley

2 years ago

waz79 wrote

i think its really sad, but really fortunate, that the Wii won't get a game thats RE in name only.

We get Silent Hill, a proper horror experience.

Er... yeah, okay. I can't see how you're any better off that a game you've decided not to buy won't be released on Wii. There are a tonne of games on Wii I have no intention of buying... the fact they exist doesn't cause me any real day-to-day suffering.

I'm with drinniol. I found the original RE games' controls were so bad the games were virtually unplayable - and this was back in the mid-nineties when everything handled pretty bad.

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