I am a huge RE fan. RE4 may have been my favorite game of all time. Resident Evil: Raccoon City (not coming to a Nintendo platform) seems like a real disappointment to with the fast-pace action-oriented play mechanics.  I guess i may be more disappointed as time goes on.

“Especially for the North American market, I think the series needs to head in that [action-oriented] direction. [Resident Evil’s primary games] need to be an extension of the changes made in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5.

RE4 started in that direction, and RE5 kept going in that direction. And I think that especially for the North American market, we need to keeping going in that direction, and take that a step further. And that’s exactly one of the reasons that Revelations is the way it is.

Looking at the marketing data [for survival horror games] … the market is small, compared to the number of units Call of Duty and all those action games sell. A ‘survival horror’ Resident Evil doesn’t seem like it’d be able to sell those kind of numbers.” – producer Masachika Kawata

 

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