Topic: Resident 5 confirmed....not on Rev!

[Dasmos]

RE 5 on the PC? WTF??

Have any other RE's been on the PC?

[theRPGFreak]

I actually got to play Fire Elblem at E3 and it did look pretty good, but the graphics needed a mega overhaul in my opinion. The Nintendo lady yelled at me for stopping in the middle of DDR because I looked liked an idiot, and spent the rest of the time playing Animal Crossing and Mario Kart DS.

[KDR_11k]

Mmmmh, RE5 with mouselook... If those zombies are that fast I think we'll need it.

I don't think any other RE got ported to the PC but all the other survival horror games were ported to the PC (or, in the case of the granddaddy of survival horror, started there).

[Flames_of_chaos]

My cousin owns resident evil 2 on the PC, I believe Resident Evil 2 and 3 are on the PC.

[stevey]

"Updated - Nintendo of America has stated RE5 may be announced for the Revolution when the system's details are revealed later this year and Capcom has confirmed the game will come to other systems (N Rev, PC, etc). Good news indeed! < Thanks to JeuxPo for the information > "

yes this is going to kill the ps3 and 360 sells who going to pay 70 bone for the game and $400 big ones for the system when they canbuy it for 30 smacker and a cool 200 for the rev yes I ratter had the re4cube bome and the re5 rev win and kill ps3 and 360 die

[nickmitch]

Who the heck syas PS3 and 360 games are going to be sold for $70?!? And who says Rev games are gonna go for $30?!?

Either ou're severely over exaggerating or I'm the crazy one.

[BlackNMild2k1]

stevey (nintendoite fanboyicus extremicus).... beep beep

[Ian Sane]

If RE5 costs $60 on the PS3 and Xbox 360 like the prices for next gen games are rumoured as it will cost $60 on the Rev.  Why would the game become cheaper particularly on a Nintendo console where stingy Nintendo traditionally tries to get as much from licensing fees as they can?  I imagine that the Rev will be like the GBA was initially where first party and third party game prices differ.  Multiplatform games will probably cost the same across the board while the cheaper games are first party or third party exclusive.

[nickmitch]

Well why not let the 3rd party games cost less? Wouldn't that invite more 3rd parties to make games on the Rev? Even if they could sell it for $50 they could still sell it at $60 and make an extra ten bucks a sale.

[KDR_11k]

BlackN: Naah, that's Gamebasher. Stevey is more along the lines of an idiot, making crap up to make people correct him. On Slashdot that's called trolling.

Ian: I doubt that, if Nintendo says "MSRP for games is 50" then that means MSRP for games is 50. PC games here retail for 45 while console games go for 60, even for the same game. Noone dares to raise the PC game prices because the competition might not follow suit and certainly the customer won't take it.

[Ian Sane]

"PC games here retail for 45 while console games go for 60, even for the same game."

PC games don't require licencing fees so they're cheaper.  Third parties will make a certain amount of money from $60 games on the PS3.  They're going to want to bring in that same amount of return on Rev games as well.  Let's say they make $20 from a $60 game but only $5 from a $50 Rev game.  It's not at all unreasonable for Nintendo to have higher licencing fees than the competition.  By raising their Rev game price to $60, which won't be considered too odd if every PS3 and X360 game costs that, the can make $15 which is much closer to their return on non-Rev games.

Nintendo's not in a position to tell third parties to charge less money and thus make less money per sale.  The only way it would work is if Nintendo lowered their licencing fees so that it all balanced out and third parties don't lose enough from charging $10 less.

[IceCold]

Or they could make the MSRP $55, and lower their licensing fees a bit, but not as much as if it were $50. If games on Rev were $55 and on the other systems they were $60, casuals would not think that the Rev version is a lot worse, therefore it is cheaper (like the Gamecube).

[stevey]

"Stevey is more along the lines of an idiot, making crap up to make people correct him."

NO! why do you hate me!

"Who the heck syas PS3 and 360 games are going to be sold for $70?!? And who says Rev games are gonna go for $30?!?"

I did! the x360 ps3 game is going to come out first at 6-70 buck then when the rev port come there be a price cut since it been a year or so.

[BlackNMild2k1]

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Originally posted by: stevey
"Stevey is more along the lines of an idiot, making crap up to make people correct him."

NO! why do you hate me!

"Who the heck syas PS3 and 360 games are going to be sold for $70?!? And who says Rev games are gonna go for $30?!?"

I did! the x360 ps3 game is going to come out first at 6-70 buck then when the rev port come there be a price cut since it been a year or so.

HAHAHA, way to prove a point.  

[Flames_of_chaos]

I say stevey should be teh banned .

[KDR_11k]

stevey: You annoy me because you're constantly making up crap. Noone EVER said the X360 or PS3 games will cost 70, even 60 is pretty much pure speculation. And ports, even late ones, don't come out at budget price. No, it'll be in the 30$ budget range for the X360 by he time the Rev port arrives but the Rev port will still be full price because they'll think that either you already bought the budget version or you have no choice but to buy the full price one.

Ian: Licensing fees are what, 10 USD? The price difference is 15-20 Euros, 20-25 USD. The 60 Euro price was set when the consoles were new and 60 Euros were worth 50 USD but now 60 USD are worth 50 Euros and the prices didn't adjust. The PC market has no tiers where new prices could be set, people are used to 40-45 Euros per game and suddently asking for 60 Euros wouldn't work.

[ShyGuy]

I like Stevey. His fervency is always entertaining.

I think what he was trying to say is a Situation like Viewtiful Joe to the PS2 would happen with RE5. It was released on the Cube at $49.95, then came to the PS2 a year later at $29.95

I would think if you were going to spend $10 million making a game, you'd want to release it on as many platforms as possible to recoup the increased dev costs.

[vudu]

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And ports, even late ones, don't come out at budget price.

Sonic Mega Collection was released with an MSRP of $20 when it was ported to PS2 and Xbox.  It was $50 when originally released on GameCube.

Resident Evil 2, 3, and CV came out on GameCube at $40 MSRP.

[nickmitch]

Wasn't VJ released at $40?

[vudu]

It was released on GC for $40.  I have no idea what price the PS2-port was released at.

[Mr. Saturn]

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
This isn't surprising and not just because the Rev is so unknown right now.  This is the company that sabotaged the sales of their own game by announcing a PS2 port weeks from release.  Capcom's shareholders obviously aren't too hot on Nintendo right now to do something like that.  I imagine Mikami's still cool with Nintendo but considering how financially Capcom's Cube support didn't really pay-off the company is probably not too enthused about the Rev.  Or at least I would understand it if they weren't.

The fact that it's coming to Xbox 360 suggests however a potential multiplatform release across all consoles.  Logically Xbox makes no sense.  But then Japanese Xbox support NEVER makes sense but that didn't stop a whole bunch of Japanese third party games from appearing on the PS2 and Xbox but not the Cube.

We also have to wonder if the Rev is capable of a decent PS3 RE5 port.  Rumour has it Factor 5 left because Nintendo isn't focusing enough on technology with the Rev.  RE4 obviously was graphically very intense so even if Capcom still likes Nintendo the Rev might not suit the game's needs.

Hmm interesting although I could have sworn that nearly all of Capcom's Gamecube titles met their sales projections not all of them of course but quite a few.  Of course if someone would be so kind as to verify if this info is true or not would be most appreciated.