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September 13, 2001 - In an official press conference released on September 12th in Japan, Capcom Ltd. Co. announced it has struck an agreement with Nintendo to bring as many as six Resident Evil games, including Resident Evil 4, to Nintendo's GameCube, exclusively. This unfortunately means that it's highly unlikely we'll see Resident Evil back on PlayStation 2, at least for the foreseeable future.
Capcom will remake Resident Evil (also known as Biohazard in Japan), Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil Code: Veronica for GameCube, and is in development with Resident Evil 0 exclusively for GameCube (Info: Resident Evil 0 was on the N64 along time ago). Resident Evil 4 – Was first going to be on the PS2 but Capcom has switched to Game Cube all of a sudden and now most of the Resident Evils will appear exclusively on GameCube.
In the videogame world, Capcom's agreement with Nintendo is in many ways unprecedented. The Resident Evil series, which began on Saturn and PlayStation in March 1996, has since spawned more than seven iterations on seven different systems, and has sold more than 18 million copies worldwide. It has never remained exclusive to one single console -- rather, it was just the opposite -- it produced to many systems.
With Resident Evil's next five games exclusive to GameCube, Nintendo hopes to put a dent in its perception as a pure kiddy system and to generate sales among older gamers, who see PlayStation 2 as the premiere system for mature buyers. Capcom, similarly, is so confident that Nintendo's system will succeed that it's dedicating four remakes of its series to a potentially new market.
Still, is Resident Evil really truly exclusive to Nintendo forever? Because after all, it was the PlayStation that was so strongly associated with Resident Evil, and it was on the PlayStation that it gained almost all of its fame. Well, no. Capcom's agreement with Nintendo doesn't include every single Resident Evil game until the end of time. “It is not an indefinite announcement," continued the Capcom representative. "It doesn't mean that this is a permanent fixture. The agreement, to my knowledge, is for six Resident Evil games on GameCube. It's not forever. We're going to see how this goes as we move into the future."
To date, there have been ten Resident Evil games: |
