Resident Evil 5 Confirmed for Xbox360 and PS3!

I have never heard ANYTHING about a Team Ninja/Microsoft contract.

 

I think japanese devs start to loose their importance for worldwide console business. Titles like MGS3 or RE 4 are great games for sure, but they do not sell that great anymore compared to Rockstargames or Halo (worldwide).

And I am pretty sure, that XBox360 will reach 50%+ Marketshare in the US and japanese devs realise that and they cant afford to loose 50% or even just 40% marketshare in the US. Since the PS3 and Xbox360 hardware is pretty similar (just forget about tricore and spus - they aren´t THAT important for typical japanese games) multiplatform is the solution for japanese devs. I am sure that we will see alot more muliplatform tiltles in the next generation. Probably mulitplatform will be standard for many publishers.

Imo staying PS3 exclusive will even hurt SquareEnix, because there will be strong multiplatform competition expecialy for US/Europe (Bioware, Bethesda...) and Sega, Namco, Mystwalker and co. in Japan.

 

All console game developers are under some sort of contract. It dictates such things as royalty fees, NDA's on the dev kits, etc...

Microsoft has given Techmo some very lucrative royalty fees for the Team Ninja games. They have similar deals with a few other developers, such as Bioware. The terms don't make the games exclusives, but if the developers were to go multiplatform with their games, they could lose those super-low royalty fees for their future games.

 

I agree that some of the Japanese games are becoming more niche, which is one reason alot of these will end up being PS3 exclusive. It'll be the only viable console in Japan.


Though since RE4, Capcom has been saying that they're trying to make a game to appeal to a Western audience. Hence the Xbox 360 version.

 

If I use 'hate' with a weaker connotation, like I explained, it's just the same. No twist.

Now let's return to the subject again.

 

Doyou expect us to fly over to Japan and get a copy of the magazine. You are a funny man.

 

I bought my copy today at cvs in fort lee new jersey .

 

I have no clue either. But IF (and I don't claim to know this either) HDTV adoption is high then I would guess they notice a difference.

 

Could be a weird trend, but what if PS3 becomes the "killer app" to setoff hdtv adoption?

 

"PS3 becomes the "killer app" to setoff hdtv adoption"


Not in europe mate not in europe. No way can I see that happening

 

The Resident Evil 5 video is a promotional CG video.

The game could be done perfectly with power of 360 and PS3, but with the actual development kits no.

 

I'm going to fry for this... I know it, but I've got another crazy theory.

Huge grain of salt to follow, so please do stay tuned.

Itagaki's TeamNinja is obviously under contract to MS to make a certain number of games. There's been talk of NG2 going to the PS3... the glue that binds these two...?

In an interview with Itagaki, he spoke about how Ninja Gaiden Black was being made to fulfill a promise and that he was making it in order to move the series forward. When I read it, I was rather confused, since NGB is nothing more than NG + Hurricane Packs. There wasn't much logic to it, BUT what if Iagaki had promised MS 2 Ninja Gaiden games? AHA! NGB fullfils that and allow TeamNinja to move on to the PS3 to develop NG2.

Crackpot, crazy, nuts, or whatever you'd like, but I had to get that out there. Epiphany or not... had to say it.

P.S. Not the best way to return to the console forum, but I'm truely truely happy to see it back.

 

Team Ninja, Itagaki and Ninja Gaiden have nothing to do with RE5 being announced for X360 and PS3.
Nothing, really.

Keep on topic, folks. On topic!

 

In the UK at least, round about the same time of PS3 release, Sky will also release their BSkyB service, their HD service.

Hopefully both PS3, BSkyB and maybe even HDDVDs will wake people up. If that doesn't, then i don't know what will.

 

Affordable TV's that don't try to palm 480e as HDTV :?

 

There is only one thing that will "wake people up" to HDTV, and that's an affordable price. Today, most TV's sold are 27" or smaller tube sets that cost under $300 US. HDTV won't really take off until you can get a similar sized set for a similar price.

You've got to get the common man who lives of a relatively tight budget to be able to afford them before they will replace the old fashioned tube sets en masse.

 

Starting at around $350, you can get 30" EDTVs. That's 480p and 1080i.(I don't consider a TV without 720P to be HDTV, no matter what they try to sell it as, because 1080i is effectively little more than 480p widescreen(540p), except it's trading framerate or frame information for higher resolution.(the TV doesn't actually have 1080 lines of resolution :/)

 

Sure it does...just not all at one time.

 

Well, lets see...
if a TV can do 540P at 60 fps, that means it can do 1080i at 60fps, which means it can do 1080p at 30 fps? Is it actually able to do 1080p, or does it overwrite lines previous lines?

Say if the TV has 540 lines to work with, could it just overwrite the previous line on each update to do 1080i? Or is the electron gun able to do 1080 gradations on the screen, just not at 60fps?(basically, does it have 1080 different heights to aim at, or just 540?)

 

Umm, no. EDTV is only 480p, 1080i is an HDTV resolution.