Resident Evil 5 confirmed for PS3, 360; Nintendo snubbed

by Ross Miller on Jul 20th 2005 3:01PM

Leon with binoculars

Remember the Capcom 5? The five amazing Nintendo exclusive titles that would sell the console? Let's see what happened: one got cancelled (I forget the name), one got critically hammered (PNO 3), and the three others were released or are soon to be released on the Playstation 2 (Viewtiful Joe, Killer 7, and Resident Evil 4). If that wasn't enough, Capcom has officially announced Resident Evil 5, but it seems that at this moment, Nintendo will not get Resident Evil at all. In the statement, Capcom mentions specifically mentions PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and those two consoles alone. This could change in the future – RE4 sold mightily well on the GameCube, if I recall – but for now it seems Nintendo has just lost Capcom's love.

Rant aside, 1up has a nice writeup, as well as links to some pictures from the game, or if you want the official word check out Capcom's statement below. I do have to agree with 1up, it does look like Chris Redfield has returned, and the game looks really good for being almost a year from release, at least.

[Thanks, everyone - tofu, especially, for the official link below]

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Why dude why?

The Revolution will get RE in one form or other.

Surely Capcom can't be as silly as to ignore the huge sales of RE4 on the Cube.

Do they ever learn their lesson from VJ on the PS2 getting smashed by the Cube version, the same is happening with Killer 7 as well - this is nothing less than insanity.

I'm more then willing to bet that RE5 will also show up on the Revolution too.
Right now no 3rd party developers (except Square) have anounced any games for the Revolution. I think Nintendo is not alowing any anouncements untill after SpaceWorld.
I wish Nintendo would let 3rd party groups start announcing games. Keeping all this info hushed is really starting to get me pissed off. Its like Hey look at all the games I can get on the PS3 and Xbox360. But what does Nintendo have announced? NES, SNES and N64 games -_-x

Why? Because Nintendo's consoles dont reach the masses like all the other systems. Resident Evil 4 sold well in my opinion because they had nothing else going for GC owners to buy.
It was the only reason I wiped all the dust off my Cube for one last go. Capcom has learned from its mistakes and we will be seeing other 3rd parties follow suit in the future.

Huge sales on the cube? 500,000 as of june. Thats not huge, they would have sold way more if it was released on PS2 or XBOX....Bigger market 90 million PS2 vs 20 something million cubes.

RE4 THE ONLY REASON I OWN A CUBE.

I dont think 500k sales of RE4 in 5 months = huge sales. The name RE alone have sold 1 million or more in those 5 months. If this title would of been on xbox first or ps2 in 5 months they would of sold 1 million easy.
Capcom woke up and finally said wow we are missing out on sales by having it only on CG.
Finally Capcom does something right in the last few years.

3rd party groups cant and arent being hushed by Nintendo..The fact is third party company's are not jumping up to announce support for Nintendo at this time.

RE4 has sold 1.5 Million actually, which is very high for any RE title on any platform. And for the record it was released just after multiple high profile Cube exclusives.

Oh and the XBOX has the same market share as the Cube *rolls eyes*

EA and now Capcom: the last bastion of adult themed anything on Nintendo's systems both GONE. Nintendo sure is asking alot of its fanboys over the age of 12 this time around..

well, i feel for nintendo.. but i'll probably be buying both a 360 and a PS3 anyway.

i chose to buy RE4 for the 'cube to support nintendo, and if i decide to buy killer 7 i'll pick it up for my cutest little purple console as well, but whether or not RE5 is released for the revolution or not isn't my problem.

the xbox controllers have triggers anyway, much more comfortable for shooting.

"3rd party groups cant and arent being hushed by Nintendo."

One of the most amusing things I've read this year, please go and learn about the industry!

Rare Hare.

I'll have a PS3 for RE5, thing that saddens me is RE worked so well on Nintendo Hardware. The series was reborn and revived on Nintendo Hardware, and this is the thanks.

It pisses me off like the SCIII situation, the Cube sales smash the PS2 sales and the latter gets and exclusive sequel. It's for that reason that I'll never buy the game, true I would have bought the Cube version over the PS2 one anyway. But still we should take a stand against moronic decisions by men that know nothing about gaming and listen to stupid analysis.

/Rant.

oh ya, RE for the 360... one of the reasons I almost bought a GC.

I think you will find that the Cube has half the Market share of the Xbox and PS2 has more than like 3X that.

when talking market share, be sure to point out whether you are talking worldwide, or us/uk/europe/japan domestic. nintendo is 3rd place here but 2nd place in japan. 3rd place worldwide but not as far from xbox as in the us domestic market.

You are seriously wrong there Danny Boy.

PS2 - 90 Million Shipped (around 70/80 sold)
XBOX - 21 Million sold.
GC 20.5 Million sold.

Sony like using shipped stats while Microsoft and Nintendo prefer actual sales, that's why the PS2 stats are a little less precise :)

The 500,000 was US sales...Compared to 7+ million copy's of Halo 2 or what GTASA sold for that same time period...RE4 would have done better on Xbox or PS2.

And please show me any proof Nintendo is hushing third party's from annoucing support.....

I saw an Article on Gamespot that said GC sold like 13 million and Xbox sold 21-22 or something like that.. Damn gamespot.. Where did you get those numbers? can i have a link?

chill, the N hater.

I think you'll find the US version had sold 660k at the start of June, get your facts straight. And I simply don't care about GTA or Halo, this is a Resident Evil discussion and such sales on RE4 are VERY impressive for the series, fact.

Danny Boy.

I could probably find a link (or two) if you really want (tomorrow) but trust me its fact, it'll take a fair amount of trolling though (which I can't feel bothered with) but it's the gods honest truth :)

I'm pretty sure others here can vouch the same, I find it shocking that Gamespot could tell such rubbish. GC and XBOX are neck and neck.

Dude:

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=14491

Perhaps not totally reliable, but the best source for the figures i ever saw.

And yes, if you choose not to ignore handheld sales as the press convieniently choose to, Nintendo does in fact hold over 50% total hardware market share.

This smells of the same logic for making soul calibur III exclusive to the system that didn't sell the most copies of its prequel.

RE4 on Cube "only" sold 500K units, which isn't bad... but hardly blockbuster sales. I wouldn't guarantee seeing it on Revolution.

elmer.

That's not too bad on reliability, though it uses PS2 shipped not sold figures. SP and PS2 are head to head, just Sony use shipped not sold stats.

It's half a year+ out of date but is reasonably true to a large degree.

Dilboy.

RE4 sold 660k as of June the 1st (I have a bookmark for that as proof) and going by RE sales on all consoles (PS, N64, DC, PS2 and GC) that is a great number for the series.

If it doesn't make the next Nintendo platform some serious qusetions need asking.

Tj Yes I hate N...Resident Evil 4 reaches half-million mark in North America
as of 06/08/2005...
LINK http://www.gamesindustry.biz/news.php?aid=9388
WHICH CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON GAMESTOP AND A MILLION OTHER SITES YOU NO IT ALL.....

It's a bit hard to announce support for a console when you don't have the specs, you don't have a dev kit, and you don't even know how consumers are going to interact with the thing. Has Nintendo even showed 3rd parties the Revolution's controller or details on it? There's no proof either way on that. I've read that they're telling developers that the dev cycle is going to be similar to that for the Cube, but that's about all I've heard about developers getting information.
I wouldn't read much into this or any announcement that doesn't mention the Revolution until after Nintendo actually announces some substantive info for the console.

Or rather make that know it all...

Dont say that you have proof and dont post the link. Post it anyway.

Also 660k is not alot in 6 months for a big name game title. If this was LA rush or Ford racing yeah that is huge. But for RE title that is poor. MSG3 also didnt do to well I read sometime before that was doing around 600k to 700k in North America in Around 5 months also. Maybe becuase we are use to seeing big name titles do 1 million without a sweat in weeks. But in any case this is a business and it cost money to localize games and well you have to be able to meet your expections not the other way around. Their decision if to skip the Revolution is just purely done on #'s not becuase they hate or love it. If the #'s (profit) are their why not.

chill, MR:

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http://www.the-magicbox.com/game20050601.shtml

From the 1st of June, scroll to the bottom !!!1!one!!eleven!one!

Rohith Thumati.

Good points all round, it's a refreshing read in amongst the fanboy idiocy going on here.

I THINK NINTENDO WILL BE THE #1 SYSTEM................ DEVELOPERS ABANDON.

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Sonic_extreme

"Dont say that you have proof and dont post the link. Post it anyway."

Just did, I enjoy the capped lunacy of fanboy retaliation so I held bad, sue me.

"Also 660k is not alot in 6 months for a big name game title."

I think you'll find you are wrong there, these are huge sales figures for RE, I'm a huge fan and have been since day one on the PS1.

The series has sold 27 Million, around 15 titles from 5 platforms with multiple ports.

The RE4 Cube sales are VERY good from the series previous performance.

"Their decision if to skip the Revolution is just purely done on #'s not becuase they hate or love it. If the #'s (profit) are their why not."

Read this post again please :)

YEAH TJ YOUR LINK BEATS THE OTHER GAMESITES THAT SAY DIFFERENT....LOL. HEY GO CHECK JOYSTICS BACKSTORIES FOR JUNE....500,000.

*laughs out loud*

Yup chill, your maturity and intelligence is clear to us all...

You guys do realize that Nintendo probably has a NDA in place, which would prevent major developers, who have seen the Revolution controller, from speaking about anything related to the Revolution. It would probably be very costly for a company to go against that NDA agreement.

Another point, this is Capcom we are speaking of. The same company who at one point were going to release RE4 and Killer7 as a GC exclusive. Who says they will not go back on their word again.

chill.

I'll trust the actual press release that I linked from Capcom over you, a pathetic little zeelot, any day of the week. You miss one little fact from your source, in your blind and un-justified hatred:

"has sold more than half a million copies in the US and Canada since its release in January."

Yes that's right, Mr. Scurge of the real gamer, "more than". Not bang on as you wish.

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TJ no matter what you say, Capcom knows they made a mistake signing a exclusive agreement with Nintendo [which was not really exclusive]. And you know damn well RE4 would have sold at least 5 million copies on PS2...So I'm glad to see you're not letting your education get in the way of your ignorance.

luv your rants thanks for the laughs.

I was planning to go with a revolution and an Xbox 360 next console cyle anyway so this will not affect me in the slightest. Now if it were a PS3 exclusive I would be pissed.

You are the only ignorant person here, thank you very much.

I presume you don't know the simple fact that RE on the PS/PS2 or DC sold less than RE4 on the Cube.

I also presume that you don't realise the simple fact that RE4 wouldn't have sold "5 Million", as you foolishly claim, on the PS2.

"Capcom knows they made a mistake signing a exclusive agreement with Nintendo"

Yes, your ignorance and lack of knowledge is amusing to say the least, let's look at the facts shall we Mr Hater.

Viewtiful Joe, sold heaps on the 'Cube, exclusivity broken and it failed on the PS2 - Capcom cancel the latest version from the PS2 and make it GC only on the home console front.

What were you saying about "mistakes" again?

Killer 7, the GC takes much higher sales than the PS2, Capcom look on in disbelief again.

What do you say now?

And seriously, the stupid hatred, what's it all about? Did Miyamoto run over your kitten?

Are we not all gamers?

Nintendo probably has a NDA in place, which would prevent major developers, who have seen the Revolution controller

That would have nothing to do with them saying, "yes we are making this or that game for all three systems or a Rev exclusive"..TJ never did show any proof Nintendo is or why they would hush-up third party's from annoucing support..Hell EA said they aren't throwing major support behind Nintendo.....

Who cares about Viewtiful Joe? [the simple fact that RE on the PS/PS2 or DC sold less than RE4 on the Cube.] Are you on crack? RE1 and RE2 on the PS1 sold way more copies then RE4....Please Show me the numbers give the link because I know your full of s***...

chill.

You are getting more and more ludicrous in each post.

I tell you what, you provide me proof that Nintendo don't have "hush-up third party [agreements] from annoucing suppor"t. How d'ya like them apples zealot.

This is how the industry works, we don't get proof of these things, it's all behind closed doors.

Dispute that and you aren't ignorant, you are an idiot as this is common knowledge!

"Hell EA said they aren't throwing major support behind Nintendo....."

1. It's far from official.

2. This is nothing new, EA didn't give every single one of their pathetic titles to Nintendo this generation, why should that change. Obviously in your silly hatred you didn't know this though...

"RE1 and RE2 on the PS1 sold way more copies then RE4....Please Show me the numbers give the link because I know your full of s***..."

Awesome, your idiocy just excells itself each time - keep it coming kid ;-)

You know it's not like RE has had 20 odd versions on 8 odd different platforms (RE on PS1, REmake on Cube, RE2 on PS1 & N64, RE3 on PS1 and Cube, Code Veronica on PS2, DC and Cube and RE4 on Cube - then all the spin offs and GBC games). In that time it has sold 27 Million copies.

Do the math kid, if you think it sold 5 Million on the PS then think again, quit with the hatred - you are seriously holding back mature and logical discussion here.

TJ do they call you waterboy? Cause momma's wrong again..Combined sales of the original Resident Evil and the Director's Cut for PlayStation 1 total almost 2 million units in the US alone. The follow-up, Resident Evil 2, sold 1.7 million copies in America. Even Resident Evil 3: Nemesis sold more than 1 million copies on the system That was just US sales....

link http://cube.ign.com/articles/463/463614p1.html

And that was AGAIN US market alone...Damn that felt so good...Hey dips**t stop trying to act like you're talking facts when you have none, and it takes me two minute to prove you are talking out your ass...

Dispute that and you aren't ignorant, you are an idiot as this is common knowledge!

HAHAHA yeah its common knowledge that Sony, Micro and Nintendo dont want game developers to announce support for their systems because TJ said so......You my friend are a tool.

Chill who carse about viewtiful joe...

I Do. Oh and I think he's getting his own tv show here to.

http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/networktv/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000965628

Director714 I wasn't really trying to blast Viewtiful Joe, although I dont really care for cell shading. But that could change with that upcoming Capcom title Okami...

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TJ:

i agree with your comments in regard to my post. i do think it's sh***y that capcom seems to be abandoning nintendo but, then again, it's business. they don't see nintendo as a reliable source of consumers (as evidenced by their showing in numbers this gen).

while it makes since for them to jump ship that way, i'm still rooting for nintendo to continue doing what they do best: producing quality games for people to enjoy. not fancy online marketing s**t. not raw processing power. not viciously attacking the other competitors (*coughj.allardcough*). what they do is make sure the games are out there for people to enjoy, and i still respect them for that.

Wow, there are some REAL intelligent fanboys 'round these parts. People like you stupid f***s are why gamers are still stereotyped as hyperactive crackbabies just out looking for games that involving killing everyone and big titties, and why gaming is still considered a second-class entertainment field. Idiots.

Hey guys, I know everyone is at everyone else's neck for their reasons, but I have to make this at least somewhat universally appealing (i.e. censoring certain words with asterix (*) marks). This is an odd favor, but any chance you could help me out by half-writing the words? Thanks, and let the war continue, I'm just going to stay on the sidelines.

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