Easily. I found the number of zombies in Dead Rising pretty annoying. They only served to demonstrate now bad the controls were and how much pop-in there was.

It’s one thing to go around care free, killing zombies, not really caring how the story unfolds – with the ultimate goal of beating the game and returning it to Gamestop for your $10 *chuckle*.

For the masochist, it’s an entirely different gaming experience when committing one’s self (to the game, obviously) to saving as many friendlies as possible, doing “good” deeds, and accomplishing the “good” ending to the game.

What’s cool about Dead Rising (much like the Hitman series), is they let you do both without preventing you from beating the game. It makes a linear game seem not so linear. It adds a little bit of replay value too (hardcore achievements or not).

I haven’t been that overchallenged by a console title (Dead Rising) since doing accidents only +silent assassin runs through every level of Hitman: Bloodmoney (which nets you little reward other than the satisfaction that “you are awesome.”)

Anyway, Capcom is making an intelligent decision here. Right now, exclusives are a stupid stupid business decision (unless you really really need a money advance). The only thing exclusives accomplish is provide fanboy fuel and “neener” advertisement. The goal is to maximize profit, not entertain fanaticism.

I suppose hardware limitations do make exceptions, but the Wii is in its own category alone anyway. It’s always going to provide a different experience from the 360, PS3, and PC. Not everything translates to & from the Wii. The same could said for handhelds.

It does? RE4 was made famous on a Nintendo platform. It sold over a million on the Wii. The control scheme was vastly superior the original RE4 controls that are very likely to be used again in RE5. They’re currently porting Dead Rising to Wii with similar controls, a game they claim could “only be done on the 360″. Why WOULDN’T they do RE5 on Wii?