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Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles - producer comments: seeing a Western take on Resident Evil would be interesting, no online play, leaderboards may happen, Madworld sales discussed
The statements below come from chief producer Masachika Kawata…
“Yes, you know I’d love to see what a Western company could do if they were going to make a new Resident Evil game. And by that same rationale I’d love to see what Cavia could do if they were going to make a brand new Resident Evil game. I don’t think that just because it’s Resident Evil it needs to be made internally, but I can say our internal teams work very, very, very hard, and if we were to give this franchise to an outsource company then they’d need to be able to work with the same gusto in order to achieve the lofty expectations that the series has.”
(Poor MadWorld sales are brought up. Is Mr. Kawata afraid that RE:DC will fail to sell?) “I’m not afraid at all. I think it’s going to sell. If you look at the previous installment, it sold quite well, and again the Resident Evil brand is incredibly strong, and it’s known throughout the world.”
Kawata expresses an interest in online leaderboards, but confirms a lack of online due to lag concerns
Kawata seemed very hush-hush on the possibility of hidden playable characters