The big word on the street this morning is that Famitsu magazine apparently revealed Dead Rising 2's new multiplatform status.
"We're finally putting out new Dead Rising and Lost Planet games," Capcom's Keiji Inafune is supposedly quoted as saying. "As a main principle we're thinking about multiplatform, and expanding upon both slightly from the Xbox 360 version."
A Capcom rep, however, has responded to the rumor by suggesting that a mistranslation has taken place: "Dead Rising was a huge success for us and is obviously the kind of game we'd like to continue to make.
"However, at the moment we have made no official announcement regarding a sequel. As the source is Famitsu, I can only suggest that it was a mistranslation."
The above statement can be taken as: We haven't got to break the news yet, so pretend you never heard anything and act all surprised when you tell you, okay?
Whether the quote is accurate or not, the idea that Dead Rising shall remain an Xbox 360 exclusive seems quite unlikely to me. Capcom is known to spread the love around, even after claiming exclusivity, and with Dead Rising already coming to the Wii, it would seem illogical for the sequel not to appear on more than one platform. PS3 fans can probably rest assured that they'll also get to twot zombies in the face with frying pans eventually.
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5:27 AM on 01.28.2009
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I just hope that "multiplatform" doesn't meant "and a shitty wii port too" because man... It hurts to see Dead Rising CTYD
The most return on investment is to develop the PS3 and 360 codebases in parallel like they did with DMC4. The Wii port is just a cash in used to get some more ROI out of the first one since it launched early in the console cycle and missed out on potential sales.
Spread the zombie infection love around.
In my opinion Dead Rising 2 going multiplatform is very likely, since putting it on both system will make more money and Capcom love themselves some money.
No games specifically cause RROD - it is purely coincidental what game you will be playing that taxes the GPU enough to invoke it.
Knowing that, I really don't see why publishers that can afford it wouldn't put their big games on all three current-gen consoles.
But that was a shit game that sold based on the franchise name - Dead Rising is a relatively new IP with only one and a half games out there. Ask a random casual Wii owner if they'd buy a game featuring Darth Vader, and then ask if they would buy a game with Frank West in it.