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"Mikami ditches the Resident Evil project"

The Capcom guru has left the Resident Evil project in protest for the recent PS2 announcement.

Mikami claims he'll have "nothing to do" with the PS2 version of Resident Evil 4. And it looks likely this maybe the finale in the series.

Since new management has taken hold at Capcom the developers have lost their voice. The developers are keen to support the Gamecube exclusively but new management has pressured the developers to porting the popular Gamecube titles such as Viewtiful Joe and the upcoming Killer 7 to the PS2.

Resident Evil 4 looks to be the final straw meanwhile as many of the Production Studio 4 design team are set to leave.

That, my friends, is dedication to a cause.

I still have very little respect for C*****

Lying f**king b*sterds.

Well they've gained my respect. Good for them...and yeah, I hope they do start their own company. It would be great stuff since Resi 4 looks marvellous.

Does in the way I say it.

Dringo wrote:
> Capcom = Lying f****ing b***stards

You might want to count the number of asterisks next time. "B*stards" doesn't have three A's.

Blank wrote:
> Dringo wrote:
> That, my friends, is dedication to a cause.
>
> You've changed your tune a bit. Last week the topic was "Lying
> f***ing b****ards".

Capcom = Lying f****ing b***stards

Mikami = dedicated to a cause

Dringo wrote:
> That, my friends, is dedication to a cause.

You've changed your tune a bit. Last week the topic was "Lying f***ing b****ards".

He is a major Capcom shareholder himself.

He didnt actually say that he would leave if you look. Many of his team are leaving, and we may get lucky and get a japanese Free Radical out of the deal, or we might get a small group of guys who work ages making a game that turns out to be rubbish (Daikitana anyone?).

He'll stay at Capcom, make some new games for the GC, but the new Resi games won't have anything to do with him, and they'll be made by a new team elsewhere, and they'll most likely be poor rehashes of the old games.

I doubt that'll be the end of the series, then again in the game industry anything could happen. hope not

You what Cooky? I half expect you to know what effect this will have on the series.

Releasing a game exclusivly for one console builds up a fan base for that particular game. Viewtiful Joe did brilliantly on the Gamecube but the sequel won't even get near it, and why? Because it isn't exclusive, it is just another third party games and they do notoriously bad on the Gamecube.

Monkey Ball does tremendously well on the Gamecube, now it is multiformat it won't do nearly as well.

Resident Evil 4 hitting the PS2 will damage the "fan base" Resident Evil has managed to create on the Gamecube.

By being an exclusive PS2 game it would make more money but after Code Veronica flopped Capcom decided to build a new fan base on the Gamecube.

They've gone back on it. Mikami's hope to ressurect the series on a new system with new ideas has been taken away from him by some big wigs who constantly try to hinder his game designs.

Hence leaving and opening his own company where he has free reign what to do.