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Resident Evil 4 for PS2
slumpy writes "An article Gamespot is running states that Resident Evil 4, the highly anticipated exclusive from Capcom, will no longer be for Gamecube only, breaking the deal they had with Nintendo. Does this show Nintendo's third-party support dwindling even more?"
Most third party games that sell well don't stay exclusive forever. Resident Evil 4 is going to be exclusive to the Gamecube for nearly a year. That's a pretty good window for Nintendo to sell Cubes in.
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Er, wait. I'm guessing that Capcom just decided to branch out a bit, and that the money they'd make on the PS2 after porting would be greater than that they'd make with an exclusive GameCube deal.
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The only thing I can tell you now is Resident Evil 4 will definitely release only on GameCube, not on another console, if it happens, I will cut my head off.
After years of promising Nintendo and its fans that Resident Evil 4 would ONLY be for GameCube, Capcom shows its true colors.
I am mostly angry because ports always go TO the PS2, and not vice versa. Viewtiful Joe did well on GameCube, and it was a great game. So it got ported to PS2 (and sold horribly). Resident Evil 4 is about the most hyped game on GameCube right now, so Capcom decides that they will avoid the whole "not selling well on PS2", and announce the port before the GameCube version even comes out.
Meanwhile... Onimusha and Devil May Cry are doing well on PS2, but nobody thinks to bring them to GameCube.
It's just irritating to a great degree.
Do big wig execs think they can continue to get away with this for long? The PS2 is an ancient piece of hardware by computer hardware standards with the Gamecube laughing at it and the Xbox not even acknowledging it in terms of hardware power. In the next generation of consoles, theres no way third-party developers can get away with this if the PS3 doesn't kill Nintendo or Microsoft hardware-wise.
Yes, because the only thing that matters with a quality game is the hardware that it is played on.
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Wow Zonk that's really reaching. Are you Sony fanboys running out of rumors and misconceptions to pedal on the slashdot forum? Last I checked when a company makes a game for more than one system it is to increase profits. You can't expect any 3rd party developer to limit themselves to one system forever.
PS2 is king as far as raw numbers go. A game that only does moderately well on the PS2, (say, 10% of PS2 owners buy game X) would need a much greater penetration on Gamecube or X-Box to match the sales.
When the PS2 has about 50 million units sold, and the gamecube / X-Box have about 5 million each, then hitting 10% on the PS2 is going to match hitting 90% on the other platforms.
And the only publisher that can expect to get 90% penetration on the Gamecube is Nintendo, and that is with one of their flagship titles.
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This would be Nintendo's 2nd party support dying, to some extent (capcom is 3rd party, but the resident evil stuff was 2nd party). As a side effect, they just got another 3rd party developer :P
The advantage of buying it on a gamecube vs. a PS2 is that the load times will be significantly less on the gamecube. Compare any game on both PS2 and gamecube and the gamecube will win out, except when your comparing controllers of course.
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Oh, wait, never mind, I thought the headline said President Evil...
The game is still coming out for the Gamecube and being ported to the PS2, so this doesn't show that the big N's 3rd party support is dwindling. You want to see bad 3rd party support? Look at the PS2's future line up (ick), then look at the gamecubes (M2: echos, new zelda etc etc) and xbox's (halo 2, need I say more?)
When companies port games, its so they can make more $$$, not because they decide one system sucks. If this was a hit to Nintendo's 3rd party support then they would've cancelled the GCN version all together
Which system will it sell better on?
As a nintendo fanboy, this announcement neither surprises me nor makes me mad. I wish I had source, but I read something last year(probably at IGN.com) when viewtiful joe for PS2 was announced that the "fab five" exclusivity deal was no more. I don't think there are any broken promises. It's Just business. While not a fan of the series, I am glad Capcom is offering RE4 as a "Game Cube First title." it will drive system sales at least a bit, and while I am a true Nintendo fan, I am also a realist, and realize that Capcom is out first, and foremost to make money...You can't argue that the PS2 has far outsold the GCN in terms of units, and will probably move more copies of RE4. If somebody is actually a rabid Resident Evil fan, then the GCN should be their system of choice anyway. the entire series is available on it(excluding some bizre first person game, and resident evil online..Poor reviews for both) ane we have REzero. Now, for any of you who want to know where the REAL quality gaming will be this holiday season, make sure to pick up your copy of Metroid Prime2!
I'm not trying to be a Nintendo fanboy here, but the simple fact of the matter is that the PS2 doesn't push as many polygons as the XBox or Cube. Capcom's done this port from Cube to PS2 thing before with Viewtiful Joe, and they had to noticably cut down on special effects in the port (mostly just cutting out alpha-blending on some objects). VJ didn't push the Gamecube to its limits, graphically speaking, but RE4 almost certainly will, and if it does ever come out on the PS2, I'd expect it to be rather lacking.
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Consoles are dwindling, it is true! Newer "consoles" are computers, some (Xbox specifically) nearly meet (if not exceed) PC specifications. In a decade, there will be no dedicated gaming machine, everyone will be playing games on Personal Computers, and if there are consoles, the'll be giftwrapped computers. Look at the GameCube, it is dying (as is Nintendo). Xbox and PS2 are prospering while they mimic computers.
The bottom line is that Perfect Dark Zero shows the downfall of Nintendo's reign. THE KING IS DEAD.
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Um...all of the Nintendo and Microsoft titles you mentioned are first party games. Sony's far more reliant on third parties. The system-defining brands on Xbox (Halo) and Cube (Mario, Zelda) are first party, whereas PS2 is defined by third party franchises like EA's Madden, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto, and Konami's Metal Gear Solid. Sony puts out some quality titles, but they aren't system-sellers like Halo.
That said, this announcement is just one more reason for someone to avoid the Cube. Some people, myself included, are fine with having a Cube as a delivery system for Nintendo-devloped games. But I own all three consoles. Someone who's choosing just one and wants to play a variety of titles now has one less game to draw them towards a Cube. More's the pity. I'd love to see Nintendo lock in more exclusive third party titles for their home systems, but they've gone two generations now with weak support. They'll have to do something big with their next system to win back developers and publishers.
I'll happily see Resident Evil 4 go to the PlayStation IF we see Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas come to the GameCube. Sounds fair, doesn't it?
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Speanking of ports, I'm still waiting for DOAX on the PS2...
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Capcom always did have a habbit of going back on what they say though.
Remember when they promised Sega gamers that XMen Vs. Street Fighter would only be coming out for the Saturn (thanks largely to the 4Meg Expansion the Saturn had)? Before changing their minds and releasing it on the PlayStation anyway.
Luckily this worked in the Saturn owners favour, as the PlayStation version was severely cut down (you couldn't even change characters in mid-fight), and only served to show off the Saturn's superior 2D capabilities.
I can't see GameCube owners getting such luck though... I have the Biohazard 4 demo from Famitsu myself, and unless the later areas of the games are something special, it's nothing the PlayStation2 can't handle.
Hell, this isn't even the first time Capcom have pulled this stunt in *this* generation... Killer 7 and Viewtiful Joe are prime examples.
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You and anyone else would be a complete and utter moron to buy RE4 a year later on ps2. Anyone who is a fan of RE would buy it on Gamecube which has all the RE's on a singular system and exlusives like RE0 and the RE remake which are only on that platform. Also, who would wait a year to get a game on a system that will have longer load times and worse graphics. Oh yeah and did I mention it would come out A YEAR LATER on the ps2. No one will buy it on the ps2 it will be just like what happened to the viewtiful joe port to the ps2, even when they added Dante and an easier difficulty for all the babies who couldn't beat it, it still sold like crap and sold far less than the Cube version because people want to get a game when it comes out not a year later and they definitely want to spend there hard earned cash on a much better version(the best version they can get which is on the Cube obviously).