Resident Evil 5 - Possibly 360 exclusive?

koneko

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=67959

Read above article for more detail, but there are rumours that Resident Evil 5 will be an Xbox 360 exclusive, and not Xbox 360 and PS3 as everyone previously thought. Whether this is true or not, we'll see, but Xbox boss Takashi Sensui did not deny it, and gave a cryptic answer.

It wouldn't surprise me in one sense because Dead Rising has done so well and is 360 exclusive, and Lost Planet (out next year) is 360 exclusive aswell. But on the other hand they've got a lot of history with Sony (and then Nintendo, maybe they just like hopping platforms).

bizmark

Fine with me Resident evil chronicles and Resident evil 5 shall be mine

tman

fine with me too, yet another nail in the lid of Sony's coffin:p

Clank

Probably a timed exclusivity of 6 months like they did with Splinter Cell.
Good news though!

i_am_dogboy

I too, am not bothered by this, though I can imagine I would be if I held off buying a 360 in order to save up for a ps3, which is something I don't have to do any more, hooray for being out in the real world

Mr. K

I really hope it is a 360 exclusive! That'd be a big kick in Sony's face, to lose such a lucrative frachise. Again...

mcgarnicle

Well it's due out in March so I'd imagine it will at least be a 360 exclusive for a few months, unless Sony have it as a launch game over here.

Ciaran500

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=146558

Denied by Capcom

johnny_ultimate

mcgarnicle wrote:

Well it's due out in March so I'd imagine it will at least be a 360 exclusive for a few months, unless Sony have it as a launch game over here.

I doubt March for some reason. Personally Id be highly surprised to see it in 2007 at all.

i_am_dogboy

johnny_ultimate wrote:

I doubt March for some reason. Personally Id be highly surprised to see it in 2007 at all.

Yeah but regardless of when it comes out, if they keep the RE 4 mechanics and put the game in even half decent settings it will be well worth the wait.

With regards to it not being an exclusive....i'd say something like "it was too good to be true", but the format a game like this is released on really doesn't matter, also the more people playing such a (hopefully) great game the better.

evad_lhorg

probably wont be out until the end of next year.... also lost planet is not 360 exclusive.

mcgarnicle

Capcom have it scheduled for release this fiscal year, that means march. Could well slip but they will try to avoid that.

koneko

evad_lhorg wrote:

also lost planet is not 360 exclusive.

Do you know something everyone else doesn't? Last I read it was still an Xbox exclusive.

koneko

And to back that up, an interview with Takeuchi from Capcom (less than a month ago):

GameSpot: To be clear, will Lost Planet be exclusive to the Xbox 360, or is it being ported to other platforms?

Jun Takeuchi: Lost Planet is an exclusive Xbox 360 title. Typically, when the development team sets out to create a game, we focus development of the title on a single platform, and for Lost Planet, that platform is the Xbox 360. We have no plans at this time of porting to or developing for another console, as this would potentially dilute the final product.

savemejebus

will take that with a pinch of salt as Capcom made and broke similar promises with the "Gamecube 5"

I have to say i think it's weird that there are all these posts about wanting Sony out of the console/game business as to be perfectly honest I'd hate to imagine what it would be like if MS were the driving force in console games...

koneko

Well, if Lost Planet is released on the PS3, it'll be a good while before that happens, so it will be 360 exclusive (like RE4 was on the Gamecube for a good while).

I don't want Sony out of the business at all, but they could do with some humble pie, their attitude a lot of the time stinks.

Clank

koneko wrote:

Do you know something everyone else doesn't? Last I read it was still an Xbox exclusive.

Think its coming out on the PC, I think.
Its a console exclusive.

jaggeh

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=146558

koneko

Clank wrote:

Think its coming out on the PC, I think.
Its a console exclusive.

I don't think it is, Jun Takeuchi seems pretty adamant that it's only going to be on 360 (just like Dead Rising). Though it might end up on PC eventually, but they've said they have no plans to port it to anything else.

Also, we're going off topic But I read that the Lost Planet demo has been downloaded by 550,000 users :eek: Looks like it could do pretty well when it's out.

Laguna

Clank wrote:

Probably a timed exclusivity of 6 months like they did with Splinter Cell.
Good news though!

Exactly what I'm thinking, that's what *exclusive* means when it comes to consoles these days.