Forget about Resi 5 for at least another year

[Galactus]

Friday 22-Dec-2006 1:31 PM Producer says don't expect a new Resi for a year, maybe two...

Speaking to Famitsu Xbox 360 producer Jun Takeuchi has said that the highly-anticipated fifth instalment of Resident Evil isn't likely to appear until 2008 - possibly even late 2008.

Apparently Capcom's Resi team is still in the storyboard stage of design and concentrating on getting the game up and running at a full 60 frames per second.

The only other snippet of info revealed to the Japanese mag was that temperature will play a major role in the gameplay.

More in 2007, or maybe 2008. We'll see...

 

[Avalanche]

I'd already forgotten about it.

 

[L.A.]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I want Resident evil 5 out next year dammit!

 

[L.A.]

Wait a mins where the link? And i dont see anything about this on the xbox fourms!

 

[Galactus]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=153045

 

[Rukus]

I don't mind as long as they take there time and make it the best way they can.

 

[jaydawg]

When it comes to games like Resident Evil, I dont mind waiting. This franchise is a piece of art and should remain so. You cant rush genius.

 

[Havok83]

was anyone really expecting it out this year? It was scheduled for a Dec 07 Japanese release. I didnt expect an American version till at least the summer of 08

 

[Galactus]

Clover devs working on Resident Evil 5
Tuesday 20-Feb-2007 10:53 AM Capcom re-shuffle puts ex-Clover developers to work on new Resi and Inafune Wii title
Capcom refugees from the recently-closed Okami developer Clover have been moved to work on Resident Evil 5 and Keiji Inafune's mysterious Wii project, Capcom has confirmed.

"Some of the team that worked on Clover titles are now helping Takeuchi-san on Resident Evil 5, helping Inafune-san on a new title for the Wii", Capcom's vice president of marketing Charles Bellfield reveals to Gamasutra.com.

"I think it's very much the skill set still stays in the company when those individuals stay and, unfortunately, three individuals chose to leave," he said, referring to Clover veterans Shinji Mikami, Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya who left Capcom to form new studio Seeds.


"What actually happened is Mikami-san, Kamiya-san and Inaba-san chose to leave the company and do something else and the rest of the Clover team was just incorporated back into the rest of Capcom's development talent pool," he says.

Apparently the move wouldn't have a caused a big shake-up for the respective teams, because Capcom doesn't have dedicated strict boundaries between its development teams. "Everybody does work on a variety of content and games at Capcom," Bellfield notes.

With a good few years of development and an even bigger team pushing things along, we can't wait to see what sort of state the new Resi is in. But will it be able to live up to number 4 without Mikami's direction? Our fingers are crossed

 

[ProjectPat2280]

When it comes to games like Resident Evil, I dont mind waiting. This franchise is a piece of art and should remain so. You cant rush genius.

Wow, that couldnt have been put any better. I agree completely.

 

[Spidey17]

Has Mikami ever not headed a RE game?

 

[Jspider13]

Wow, and they're really keeping the game underwraps. Which sucks.