Resident Evil 5 release slipped by SEGA

TheHater - 517 days 1 hour ago

is anyone actually surprise by this news? I am not

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Grassroots - 517 days 1 hour ago

No surprise, money is to be made.

Mine's definitely going towards the 360/PS3 version which looks ace!

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Ogrekiller - 517 days ago

and make Panzer Dragoon Sega already. (Not the real name.)

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big shadow - 517 days ago

it didn't surprise me either.

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NoxiousD - 517 days ago

Out of all people, SEGA slipped that a Wii port of Resident Evil 5 may be coming. I think they need to put a muzzle on certain people. That was actually ironic how SEGA slipped a nintendo secret.. now only if they can make a decent comeback with a new console.

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tako2000 - 517 days ago

Not surprise but do wanna see some pix of Wii version

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DA_SHREDDER - 517 days ago

Im just so used to having fluid gameplay in games like Cod4,
rainbow six vegas. Not being able to move while you are shooting is just playing idiotic. Even a crack head can do that! This is the year 2008 people, that kinda gameplay is just totally uncalled for. I cant believe they wont even consider modifying the old formula. Its not like they dont have almost a year to make changes that could improve the games retarded control scheme.

I wish somebody else besides Sega actually had the licence for this game. I would rather have EA do it than Sega. At least EA would fix westernize the controls for us. I swear, I dont know what has gotten into the Japanese and their video games. Its like they love changing formulas and concepts that they should just leave alone(Yeah Im talking to you Squeenix). And not changing things that would only make sense to fix,, like a broken targeting system.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 517 days ago

Does that mean SEGA is doing the port?

If so, the Wii has a lot more problems than we thought.

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Product - 516 days 23 hours ago

All the Resident Evils have sold very well on wii.Hope this is true.
Actually even if this isnt true another thing that interests me was him saying that Nintendo knows it needs hardcore gamers.
Makes you wonder if Nintendo has some tricks left.

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NoxiousD - 516 days 22 hours ago

Well, the Hannah Montana World Tour on the Wii, was the most hardcore game I have ever played. The visuals were stunning and so explosive. But in all seriousness, I am hoping Nintendo comes through, the Wii has a lot of opportunity to once again make Nintendo the god of games. I personally would not mind it, I grew up on a NES and SNES, so nintendo is important to me even though I sold both my Wii systems twice... Nintendo needs more hardcore titles. They need something to bring old fans back and say Wow this is Nintendo.. The wii mote thing is getting a bit over played..Don't let the Wii mote make you nintendo... let the games make you once again..Resident Evil 5 would be a start.

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Smacktard - 516 days 20 hours ago

RE5 would be nice. This doesn't exactly sound like concrete confirmation to me, though.

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Dragnipur - 516 days 20 hours ago

I guess there they figured some "hardcore" gamers on the Wii were worth going after...
not even gonna bother getting this, seems just like Res 4 in a different locale!

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Psycho_Mantis - 516 days 20 hours ago

I certainley did not see this comming at all. RE5 on the WII? Well, iam more concerned on how this would affect alot of things. More on like how it would look, such as the graphics.

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qface64 - 516 days 18 hours ago

well if it has the good controls that re4 had i might consider getting this i was never too sure about getting re5 on any system mainly because i want it to have a good story re4s story was meh

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Ashta - 516 days 18 hours ago

I just hope that the PS3/360 versions aren't affected by the decision to make it for the Wii as well.

We've already seen the low-grade shots of DR:"Chop till you drop" and I'm just not really seeing how it's gonna work, really.

Also, if Capcom IS making a Wii port of the game then what does that say about the PS3/360 versions in terms of higher quality and next-gen defining immersion? We all remember what happened with DMC4 and it was pretty much just known as "DMC3 with HD visuals and a new character". Will RE5 have the same fate and just be "RE4 HD starring Chris Redfield"?

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Jack Bauer - 516 days 17 hours ago

i didnt know sega made resident evil...

people are stupid for believing this... i think it was shane kim that didnt even know that it was known that RE5 was coming to the 360 already when they "announced" it at last years E3... these guys dont know anything, especially about something their company is not making........... seriously???

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jtucker78 - 516 days 17 hours ago

Did any of you guys ACTUALLY read the article?

"As far as a Wii port of the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 title, Kramer asked of us "Have you seen Resident Evil 5?" implying that such a port would be almost impossible, adding that he'd not heard any such product was in the works for Nintendo's platform."

So basically Chris Kramer CAPCOM's Senior Director of Communications and Community sounded so gutted that anyone could even think that RE5 would be possible on the Wii that he just came out and dissed the console.
Would he diss the Wii like that if RE5 was coming to it?
I would have thought someone high up at CAPCOM would know about a Wii version if there was one.

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cmd5150 - 516 days 17 hours ago

I just sold my Wii, so I'll be getting the PS3 version. Why would I want to play a handicapped version of RE5?

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Product - 516 days 16 hours ago

same could be said with the ps3 version seeing as how much multiplat are made first on the 360.

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PS360WII - 516 days 15 hours ago

Awesome that would rock then the full series can still be on a platform. RE Zero is still only on GC so if RE5 is coming to the Wii Nintendo will have 0-5 while PS will have 1-5 and MS will have RE5. I just like things in order I guess. If they are making RE5 on Wii consider it to be the one that'll have the best control because RE4 Wii version is the best of all 3 versions made.

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Erdrick - 516 days 13 hours ago

RE5 will do just fine on the Wii. Maybe it wont look as pretty as on other consoles, but that wont make it a bad game.

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HelghastCommando - 516 days 18 hours ago

The quality of games this generation is decided by the console that has either more units worldwide or whoever opens up their checkbook. All sony fans know that the ps3 is the only true next generation console that can deliver next gen animation and graphics. What sony has been doing is putting their money towards new developers that will make exclusive games for ps3. We do not have to pay attention anymore to companies that bring out anticipated sequels that feel like last generation because of the money. Just look forward to new games from new companies on ps3 if you want a true next gen experience. If you want true next gen sequels your going to have to wait for the next console war. This console war you have the wii with outdated graphics and xbox360 that only has 3 cores and can't do realistic animation but only make games look good in pictures. Only the ps3 with 7 cores can bring a true next gen experience but its toobad that 75% of games wont be made to its hardware.

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cow moolester - 516 days 17 hours ago

You do realise that a core is different to an SPU?
The Ps3 doesn't have 7 cores it has 7 SPU's. The 360 has 3 cores which each doing a lot more work than a single SPU.

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cow moolester - 516 days 13 hours ago

The Cell has a theoretical peak of 201 GFLOP’s– running 8 SPE’s at 25.12 GFLOP’s a piece.
When physically tested however, only 155.5 GFLOP’s were actually achieved with a total efficiency rate of 75.9%.
Because of manufacturing yield issues, the PS3 will only use 7 SPE’s with the theoretical peak for the PS3’s Cell processor being reduced to 176 GFLOP’s, each running at 25.12 GFLOP’s. Utilizing the same 75.9% efficiency, it is easily interpolated that the PS3’s Cell CPU will only be capable of 133.6 GFLOP’s.

The xbox 360 has 3 general-purpose 2-threaded CPU's, which generates a proven 115.2 GFLOP’s which is dramatically easier for developers to utilize. The ps3 , once you have taken into account the total amount of resources that will be used by their respective operating systems, end up with less CPU power available for graphical and physics processing than the 360.
The PS3 also constantly reserves 1 SPE** for running its operating system. Now that there is actually one less SPE reserved for gaming purposes, it is definite that the ps3’s cell is only capable of 114.4 GFLOP’s for the purpose of game processing.

**SPE’s are floating point processors, they are also called DSP’s, and SPU’s. These floating point processors are NOT to be confused with cores, cores have far more prediction and calculation braches than floating point processors. As stated earlier, the 360 has 3 cores, each running at 3.2GHz, with 2 threads each. The cell also runs at 3.2GHz, but is the one and only core that the ps3 has.

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HelghastCommando - 516 days 13 hours ago

The Cell is actually 7 SPUs (Synthetic Processing Units) each running at 3.2 GHZ. The Cell Processor is essentially as powerful as 3 Xbox 360 CPUs or 35 PlayStation 2 CPUs.

The reason why cell is more powerful because developers have more processing power to work with. They can program each spu to do a whole task by itself like one spu to do animation. With 360 it has to be shared because theres only 3 cores.

You can clearly see this in the games in killzone 2 they have so much animation when they get shot they also have a lot of physiques too.

Uncharted drakes fortune is another example.

Basically, in Jak I we had somewhere in the vicinity of 300-350 animations for Jak and everyone was really happy with the fluidity of his movement and the response. In Uncharted, Drake has got more than 3500 animations and the difference is we're now taking the cell processor and we're taking say two dozen of those animations, like we've got his running animations, flinching animations, reloading animations, rolling animations, just dozens of animations all at once being layered on top of each other and then the cell processor recreates on the fly the single frame of animation that you need to be able to play the game at that moment and the fact we can just dump more and more work on that processor and its SPUs just means we can free up our CPU to do more general purpose tasks. "

"One of our first goals when we started Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was to push what's been done in animation for video games. We developed a brand new animation system that took full advantage of the SPU's. Nathan Drake's final animation is made of different layers like running, breathing, reloading weapons, shooting, facial expression, etc; we end up decompressing and blending up to 30 animations every frame on the SPU's."

"The main thing about the PlayStation 3 is the Cell processor and more specifically the SPU's. We are only using 30 percent of the power of the SPU's in Uncharted. We've been architecting a lot of our systems around this and we were able to take full advantage of that power. A big part of our systems is running on SPU's: scene bucketing, particles, physics, collision, animation, water simulation, mesh processing, path finding, etc. For our engine, the cool thing about having the SPU's is the fact we can minimize what we send to the RSX (the graphic chip), it allows us to reject unnecessary information and get the RSX to be very efficient. "

"We are constantly streaming animations, level data, textures, music and sounds. It would have been impossible to get this amount of data at that speed to memory without the hard drive. And of course on top of that we use the SPU's to decompress all this data on the fly."

Anyone who wants to learn about the cell processor and the spu's can read from this site.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum...

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razorbladelight - 516 days 9 hours ago

I have never seen such a sorry excuse for a comment ever. I never, ever say anything negative on this website directly towards other users, but you broke that streak. Your rant about the PS3 is as amusing as Nintendo's E3 press conference and every little bit as informative and productive. Shut up and go play your 600000 dollar refrigerator.

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HelghastCommando - 516 days 7 hours ago

Well I do not understand why people cannot accept the truth developers programming for the cell using the spu's explain how much they can do.

For example uncharted drakes fortune look the animation something you wont find on xbox360 because it can't do it.

So not only do you have a clear logical explanation as to why the cell is more powerful but you can see it in the games too.

All ps3 exclusives are true next gen games some people do not need a explanation of programming they can just see the quality wit their own eyes.

I do not know where you xbox fanboys come from or how you can enjoy a system that can't deliver a true next gen game. Your over hyped flagship title halo couldn't get a 10 like metal gear solid 4 because 360 can't deliver a true next gen game. It is limited in processing power they had to reduce textures to keep frame rates high and have 16 players. Halo 3 also moves exactly like halo 2 with the same animations because they can't capture better animation.

The only game that looks good is gears of war because its only up to 8 players with small boards and thats the max 360 can do.

playstation 3 has been out for only 1 year and 9 months by next year xbox fanboys wont have anything to say anymore and articles against ps3 will diminish.

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TheDeadMetalhead - 516 days 7 hours ago

This is a good month for Wii, eh?

Mad World

GTA Wii

Call of Duty: World at War

And now...RESIDENT EVIL 5!

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