Topic: Resident Evil 6 Not Coming to Wii U

[broodwars]

Wii U doesn't need current generation table scraps! It's TRUE next gen.

Yeah, who needs RE6 when you can have Resident Evil Snap, the next-gen on-rails photography game (hey, that Tablet has to be good for something) where you try to take the best pictures of various Resident Evil abominations? 

[famicomplicated]

I'd expect this in February 2013, which is probably when I'll end up getting the Wii U anyway!
I find not buying systems at launch saves me heaps of cash and hassle

[King Bowser Koopa]

Yeah, who needs RE6 when you can have Resident Evil Snap, the next-gen on-rails photography game (hey, that Tablet has to be good for something) where you try to take the best pictures of various Resident Evil abominations? 

That actually sounds pretty awesome. Especially if they have nice HD rotatable camera modes of Jill... or Rebecca.... Sheva... mmmm.....
All that aside, the two Chronicles games were great. I'm actually finishing the last of the Darkside Chronicles titles at the moment.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Yeah, who needs RE6 when you can have Resident Evil Snap, the next-gen on-rails photography game (hey, that Tablet has to be good for something) where you try to take the best pictures of various Resident Evil abominations? 

That actually sounds pretty awesome. Especially if they have nice HD rotatable camera modes of Jill... or Rebecca.... Sheva... mmmm.....
All that aside, the two Chronicles games were great. I'm actually finishing the last of the Darkside Chronicles titles at the moment.

Definitely sounds like a great RE game, so here is hoping Capcom does it, especially after playing RE5 which I thought was sub-par at best. It really is hard for me to get excited for a mainline RE game anymore after that. Anyway, in all seriousness, hopefully all Capcom is doing is avoiding formerly announcing the title until a future time. I don't see why it wouldn't come out on Wii U, if I recall RE games do sell decently on Nintendo systems.

[Ymeegod]

I'm pretty sure RE6 will be released on the WII U and the only reason why Capcom hasn't announced it yet it because of the "non-disclosure" agreements set up in place.

[broodwars]

I'm pretty sure RE6 will be released on the WII U and the only reason why Capcom hasn't announced it yet it because of the "non-disclosure" agreements set up in place.

Considering that Ubisoft has already announced Assassin's Creed 3 for Wii U (as well as Sega with Aliens: Colonial Marines and THQ with Darksiders 2), I find it unlikely that there are NDAs blocking Capcom from announcing this.

[BlkPaladin]

It will probally be out in about a year after the release. Going by the different versions of RE:5.

[Adrock]

I don't expect a port for RE5 before RE6 or even at all. It'll probably cost Capcom the same amount of resources to port either game over and RE6 has a better chance of selling and at full price due to being newer. Economically, it makes more sense for them to just port RE6.

With this announcement, I'm already planning on getting the game on PS3. However, Capcom can convince me to hold off for the Wii U version if, say at E3, Capcom announces that the Wii U version will include a Separate Ways-esque side-mission and some other bonuses which would be paid DLC on PS3/360. Would that piss people off? Sure but that's the price of getting the game sooner. That would be the reverse of the PS2 RE4 announcement and I appreciate irony.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I'm pretty sure RE6 will be released on the WII U and the only reason why Capcom hasn't announced it yet it because of the "non-disclosure" agreements set up in place.

Considering that Ubisoft has already announced Assassin's Creed 3 for Wii U (as well as Sega with Aliens: Colonial Marines and THQ with Darksiders 2), I find it unlikely that there are NDAs blocking Capcom from announcing this.

True, though if RE6 for Wii U has exclusive features it may be under NDA. Nintendo and Capcom have worked together in the past, so it isn't out of the question. I would hope Nintendo would be working out some exclusives with developers, even if it isn't a full game, but features or content exclusive to the system.

Tough to say though, Capcom may genuinely be focused on PS3/360 development and work on porting it at a later time.

[Adrock]

At the same time, Capcom could contract a company like Tose to handle port duties. That would help them get the game out sooner though I'd wait if I got extra content included.

[Chozo Ghost]

I don't expect a port for RE5 before RE6 or even at all. It'll probably cost Capcom the same amount of resources to port either game over and RE6 has a better chance of selling and at full price due to being newer. Economically, it makes more sense for them to just port RE6.

Economically it makes sense to port both over, because both will sell multi-million units and make money for Capcom.

That said, it would make probably the most sense to space them both out a bit so that they don't cannibalize each other's sales. That means either bring out the RE5 port now and then bring out RE6 sometime well into the future, or vice versa.

[Adrock]

RE5 is a 3 year old game. Capcom loves re-releasing old games but I still wonder if they feel RE5 is worth it. Can RE5 sell millions on Wii U? I have my doubts. In any case, even if they do, I won't be double dipping as it would likely be the Gold Editon I already have on PS3.

Capcom would be smart to get RE6 out on Wii U as soon as possible. The closer they release it to the other versions the better.

[Chozo Ghost]

You said it yourself that they love re-releasing old games. The fact RE5 is 3 years old isn't a hurdle at all, because RE games much older than that are also seeing re-releases on modern consoles. The game itself is already made and all they have to do is just port it over. Supposedly Nintendo went to great lengths to make the Wii U easy for developers to work with, and it essentially uses the same architecture as the Xbox 360 from what I understand, so to bring the 360 port over shouldn't be a difficult or expensive task.

[Ymeegod]

"Considering that Ubisoft has already announced Assassin's Creed 3 for Wii U (as well as Sega with Aliens: Colonial Marines and THQ with Darksiders 2), I find it unlikely that there are NDAs blocking Capcom from announcing this."

All of them were allowed to since they were part of nintendo's E3 show last year hense no NDA is placed on them.  A know of two titles that are in the works for the WII U but haven't been disclosed because Nintendo again wants them to present at e3 this year. 

[TJ Spyke]

Assassin's Creed III was not part of Nintendo's E3 showing, it was only confirmed as a Wii U game like a month ago (the game itself was only announced last October).

[broodwars]

Assassin's Creed III was not part of Nintendo's E3 showing, it was only confirmed as a Wii U game like a month ago (the game itself was only announced last October).

Technically, I think Ubisoft said at that E3 that "an" Assassin's Creed game would be coming to Wii U.  We just didn't know which one until last month, as some thought it might be a port of Revelations.

[Chozo Ghost]

At least it isn't going to be an on rails spin off.

[broodwars]

At least it isn't going to be an on rails spin off.

Well, if they made one it would probably be the most useful the gun has been in any Assassin's Creed game.  :

Man, that weapon has been consistently useless in every AC game it's been in, especially in Brotherhood when it was unceremoniously supplanted by the silent and accurate crossbow.

[Ymeegod]

?  Are you kidding me?  The gun was overkill in my opinion.  The AI only reacts to you if you standing in an area but outside of that you'll be able to kill them without themeven reacting.

Kinda killed the fun out of brotherhood since you didn't even need to bother with stealth anymore.  All you had to do was double tap the action button, first to auto-target and blam--another body hit the floor.

[broodwars]

?  Are you kidding me?  The gun was overkill in my opinion.  The AI only reacts to you if you standing in an area but outside of that you'll be able to kill them without themeven reacting.

Kinda killed the fun out of brotherhood since you didn't even need to bother with stealth anymore.  All you had to do was double tap the action button, first to auto-target and blam--another body hit the floor.

I've always found the gun extremely inaccurate, and it's a very loud and slow weapon.  Brotherhood's crossbow by comparison is quick, very accurate, and silent from a much longer range.  It's everything I always wished the gun had been, considering the build-up to getting it in AC2.

[Chozo Ghost]

I've only played the first Assassin's Creed, so I know not of this gun and crossbow of which you speak.

I'm quite amazed they bothered making sequels when the first AC sucked so much, but I guess its a good thing they did. I guess it gets much better in the sequels.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I'm pretty sure RE6 will be released on the WII U and the only reason why Capcom hasn't announced it yet it because of the "non-disclosure" agreements set up in place.

Considering that Ubisoft has already announced Assassin's Creed 3 for Wii U (as well as Sega with Aliens: Colonial Marines and THQ with Darksiders 2), I find it unlikely that there are NDAs blocking Capcom from announcing this.

Ask the developers of those 3 games to divulge any info other than what is already publically known (for the most part since the E3 reveals/announcements of all those games) and then we'll see if there is an NDA preventing the announcement of more games.

There are games we are all pretty sure are being made for Wii U and the devs of those games can't say anything more than "we would love to release this on the Wii U at some point...."


It really makes me wonder how iron clad these NDA's are that Nintendo puts out... in fact, they must be so leak proof, that not even Sony or MS can get a copy and use it for their own purposes.

[famicomplicated]

Good point, those other games were announced at E3 by Nintendo themselves. RE6 was unknown at that point.

I don't think we've got official annoucements of any brand-new Wii U games since E3 have we?

I do hope Nintendo are just storing all these games up ready to unleash a barrage at E3.
I can just envision a showreel of like 20 games, half known, half new.
I just hope RE6 is one of them!

[BlackNMild2k1]

Project Cars is the only one that managed to make an "announcement" as a Wii U game a few months ago(Wii U logo popped on their site back in Jan.), but they have already removed that Wii U logo from the site (they removed all system logos as far as I could tell).

No one else dared peep a confirming word about a title coming to Wii U (unless you count the RE6 on Wii U rumor)

[Kytim89]

I am going to be really pissed if Max Payne 3 misses the Wii U.