Ubisoft to Distribute RE4 For PC

Gamasutra has the word that Ubisoft will be distributing Capcom's titles for PC audiences. From the article: "The deal covers North American and European territories; no details on which company would distribute the PC games in Japan, if any, were given. The first of the three titles to hit shelves will be Onimusha 3, the oldest of the games, so presumably the deal has been in the works for some time. Still unclear is whether Capcom is porting the games to PC internally, or whether a third party is handling the console-to-PC conversions. Onimusha 3 will be released in both territories in February 2006."

Comments

Will They Include Starforce Copy Protection?

[BlueStrat]

If Ubi is sticking with Starforce for these releases, I'm giving up on Ubi games. I'd like to keep my CD/DVD burner intact, thankyou.
(Referring to the recent /. article about Starforce disabling/damaging CD/DVD burners here:http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/3 1/1721241)

Re:Will They Include Starforce Copy Protection?

[purple_cobra]

The terms and conditions attached to that 'challenge' rendered it impossible to claim...
My personal experience of Starforce hasn't been pleasant and, as such, I won't buy any games infected by that crapware. I'm also happy to direct friends away from Starforce-polluted titles, and encourage them not to support companies which use this method of copy-protection.
I'm a fan of the Resident Evil series and it would have been great to see it running on a PC, but Ubisoft will almost certainly use Starforce to 'protect' these releases so it looks like I won't be buying the PC version of RE4.

Re:I like this!

[WidescreenFreak]

I'm not against getting a GameCube, particularly with Nintendo's primary push towards the kinds of games that I would let my daughter play. However, in my opinion (which I know will be taken totally the wrong way by console fan-boys) a console is just a console. Yes, I know, that's what it's meant to be. But my PC is far, far more than just a gaming machine, which is why I prefer to dump my geek cash into that. And because I have enough systems laying around (minimum of 1.4 GHz) for every member of my family and more, another piece of hardware is difficult to justify. Unfortunately, saying anything not 100% positive towards consoles has a tendency to bring out the venom in a lot of Slashdotters, which is why I normally drift away from console/PC transition stories.

And I don't know about anyone else, but I am fed up wrestling with PC games to get them to work correctly.

I really need an explanation to that one. I haven't had to wrestle with PC games to get them to work since the days of DOS and Windows 95. Either you're talking out of an orifice that isn't meant to engage in speech, or you have a really low level of tolerance. If you're referring to hardware problems, there are a ton of reasons why that would be a problem, not the least of which is buying non-standardized hardware or looking at price above all else. Sorry, but that's just the way it's been in the PC world for over a decade. Don't know if that the case with you, but that's been my experience over the past 17 years that I've been building PCs.