Topic: This is why Resident Evil Wii will blow chunks (maybe)

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: Lord_die_seis
PSP is also a easy market because while its considered a dying portable it still has a fairly large and starving userbase and quick and easy ports/remakes will lure in that crowd.

Let's not kid ourselves, the PSP has a huge userbase, which is nearly double all next gen systems combined... its problem has always been attracting those people to actually buy games though.

[Luigi Dude]

Plus there's the fact that every single game except that Monster Hunter game that Capcom has released on the PSP has bombed horrible.  Majority of the games they've released on the PSP dont even reach 100,000 WORLDWIDE.

At least their Gamecube games actually brought in good sales.  Resident Evil Remake, Zero and Four all sold over 1 million copies worldwide EACH.  Plus the first Viewtiful Joe sold over 500,000 copies worldwide so Capcom at least had some success with the Gamecube.  The PSP on the other hand has been a miserable failure in software sales for Capcom and for them to keep supporting it when all their games keep bombing makes no sense.

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: Arbok

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Originally posted by: nitsu niflheim
Well I read that RE Wii is a proper RE game like RE 5 is, but I don't know if that means it's a canon title, or just plays like a normal RE game.

It's supposed to be set in between Veronica and 4

lol no. Umbrella Chronicles takes place during all the main games.

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo
lol no. Umbrella Chronicles takes place during all the main games.

Well, you have your choice in sources. The Chinese based Game Next magazine stated that it would be a compilation style game of the entire series using the RE4 style of play, with a number of playable characters.

Recently, the Japanese based Quiter stated that it was going to take place between Veronica and RE4 with around three playable characters and using the RE4 style of play.

Neither source is particularly great, so who knows. The scans given for the 'Game Next" article showed pictures of the PS2 Ada levels of RE4, and had pictures of the people using the remote from the Prime 3 demo... so I'm less inclined for that one.