Why 3DS Capcom?

Resident Evil games have been primarily console games ever since the get-go. Why all of a sudden is the 3DS receiving all these exclusive titles? I mean Mercenaries 3D makes sense but not Revelations since it's advertised as a "core" Resident Evil title. Maybe it's just me.

It's not a numbered title so I guess that's why. Handhelds have has RE games for a long time now. I hate that revelations is going to be for the 3DS but oh well. I will just watch it played on Youtube. Also, welcome to the forum. Go make yourself an introduction so you can meet our members! Make it in the introductions sections.

NiteKrawler wrote:

It's not a numbered title so I guess that's why. Handhelds have has RE games for a long time now. I hate that revelations is going to be for the 3DS but oh well. I will just watch it played on Youtube. Also, welcome to the forum. Go make yourself an introduction so you can meet our members! Make it in the introductions sections.

Code: Veronica wasn't a numbered title but it's still considered part of the main series. And thanks I used to be part of the official Resident Evil forums on the Capcom website a LONG time ago but left shortly before Resident Evil 5 came out. I'm glad to be part of another Resident Evil forum again.

Yeah, I'm going to watch a LP of it too.

And Capcom said that CV is the real RE3 and RE3 is just a side story, but because CV was only for dreamcast, Sony didn't want the final part of the trilogy being made exclusively on an other platform, so capcom made RE3 for ps1.

I think Capcom has kept a part of the exclusivity deal they had with Nintendo. Even though they started making the games for other platforms again, there still has been games like the Chronicles that have been exclusive to Nintendo.

Mass Distraction wrote:

I think Capcom has kept a part of the exclusivity deal they had with Nintendo. Even though they started making the games for other platforms again, there still has been games like the Chronicles that have been exclusive to Nintendo.

Understandable. It's just when you start out a game franchise on one family of consoles (Sony) you'd expect them to do there best to keep the main titles on the consoles they started the franchise on. If anything, Revelations should be on Vita but I'd rather not have it be on a handheld at all since it's a main title.

Bub537 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

I think Capcom has kept a part of the exclusivity deal they had with Nintendo. Even though they started making the games for other platforms again, there still has been games like the Chronicles that have been exclusive to Nintendo.

Understandable. It's just when you start out a game franchise on one family of consoles (Sony) you'd expect them to do there best to keep the main titles on the consoles they started the franchise on. If anything, Revelations should be on Vita but I'd rather not have it be on a handheld at all since it's a main title.

That really is the weird part. Why put a main game on a handheld? Who knows. Maybe they wanted to utilize the 3D system.

I would really hesitate to call Revelations a "main title." Although it will be canon, it doesn't make it a main title. Main titles are meant to be the big productions that release on consoles and that would not decrease production value because there needs to be a handheld port of it. Revelations, to me, is just a canon spinoff. You won't need it to play RE6 (the real next main title) anymore than you need to watch 4D Executer to get what happens in Degeneration.

NiteKrawler wrote:

I would really hesitate to call Revelations a "main title." Although it will be canon, it doesn't make it a main title. Main titles are meant to be the big productions that release on consoles and that would not decrease production value because there needs to be a handheld port of it. Revelations, to me, is just a canon spinoff. You won't need it to play RE6 (the real next main title) anymore than you need to watch 4D Executer to get what happens in Degeneration.

True. Maybe it was a bit hasty to call it a "main title". Still, it could be more relevant than Survivor, even though that was canon too. At least it stars the main characters (no pun intended).
How about it being a "true prequel"?

The only ones I care about being on console are the numbered titles.

CV wasn't a numbered title, but still a main game.

It was supposed to be numbered. I just don't consider any hand held only games to be main titles. They are kind of like straight to DVD movies.

I have been thinking, maybe there will be an emulator available soon. You can't play in 3d but that doesn't matter.

In response to thread title...

Because Capcom want to troll me and put Hunters in the game and not put a Grenade Launcher in the game, thus getting my Three-Dimensional character decapitated by Three-Dimensional Hunters.

(Hell, I don't even know if there are Hunters in the game. But, knowing my luck, they will.)

The Knife wrote:

Because Capcom want to troll me and put Hunters in the game and not put a Grenade Launcher in the game, thus getting my Three-Dimensional character decapitated by Three-Dimensional Hunters.

Adapt, improvise, and overcome.

Shotgun works better against hunters then a grenade launcher for me.

Realistically grenade launchers are useless in close combat unless you're using buckshot or non-lethal munitions because an explosive grenade has to travel a minimal distance of about 100 feet before the warhead will arm. It was a safety measure introduced shortly after the M79 grenade launcher entered service in the '60s to prevent the grenadier from accidentally blowing himself and his squad up. I've heard rumors of SOF units using special 40mm grenades with a 15 foot arming radius, but I've never found anything to conclusively prove it.

Ghost Leader wrote:

The Knife wrote:

Because Capcom want to troll me and put Hunters in the game and not put a Grenade Launcher in the game, thus getting my Three-Dimensional character decapitated by Three-Dimensional Hunters.

Adapt, improvise, and overcome.

I guess... if they're stupid... and don't use the insta-kill attack... I can Shotgun them?

I really don't see why you would spend precious grenade launcher rounds to those things Shotgun works just fine.

I've never really used a grenade launcher in an RE game aside from playing around with it for a few seconds (gets so boring) or in Mercs. There are way better weapons to use. For hunters, shotgun is probably the best choice. It works perfectly. Hunters are just...easy. I've been instakilled like once. And I've played RE1 and REmake a lot.

I only use the grenade launcher on bosses.

At least the 3ds is going down in price .....anyway I dont know about the rest of you but hunters are IMO the biggest dicks to ever be in RE....I dont think there is a RE game Where I wasnt killed by a hunter.....you know that has hunters in it.....I played survivor there a week ago and there was no running away from hunters AT ALL it was bullshit on that bridge cause there was like 15 of them and I was like FUCK YOU HUNTERS LOL.....They killed me so many times in so many games T_T I tell myself never to run from a hunter....but I always do and thats what happens

How did you get killed in Survivor? O.o