Resident Evil 4 Remake Headed for Xbox 360? [UPDATED]

*Made for the sake of this post

 

[UPDATE] So, it's confirmed: Resident Evil: Revival Selections will not be coming to the US. You heard me right, it's not coming to the US.

Sadly, RE4 and C:VX will be coming to the States in their "HD glory" as downloadable titles via XBLA and PSN, not as a retail release. No word on pricing, but I'm assuming $15-20 each (that's too much for C:VX if all it's getting is update textures and not a new camera system like RE4), but expect them sometime during the fall. Check out Joystiq's image gallery, which I can tell you, RE4 did not look that bad, unless they took the 480p signal from the original, blew it up, and fuzzied/anti-alias the image next to a - hopeful - 1080p image.
 
Original Post

Note: I've been sitting on this post for quite some time now (since September 2009), believing it to be complete horseshit. However, with the recent rumor from Famitsu, I've grown the balls to finally post this.

Kotaku is running a story about Famitsu reporting on Capcom releasing a compilation of Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica on the 360 and PS3, calling it Resident Evil Revival Selection. Not much is said about it, other than it's existence, however, adding Code Veronica into that mix does confirm my tipster's last words (in the below section) saying a second Resident Evil game was being worked on/considered.


Original Draft (September 5, 2009) : I received an email from an anonymous tipster in regards to a possible remake of Resident Evil 4 hitting the Xbox 360. Naturally, there wasn't much to this, but there were some key things that caught my eye.

First off, the game isn't the breadth of a remake as you'd think (if you were thinking along the lines of REmake, keep wishing). It will be more along the lines of Sony's God of War Collection, where the core game will not be touched, only textures seeing an update (along with the staples of this generation: Achievements, leaderboards, etc.).

(S)he said that Resident Evil 4 will make it's way to the system in it's entirety, not a stripped down version; essentially, you're getting the Wii version with better visuals, but with the GameCube/PS2 controls. That means Separate Ways/Assignment Ada will be included.

As far as anything else, there wasn't much in the email, other than "ZOMG. RE4 coming to 360." The tipster did say, however, that RE4 wasn't the only game in Capcom's library that was going to be "HD-ified", but didn't say what game. They did, at least, say it was within the franchise.

Angry reader emails me about 4 year old Resident Evil 4 guide [UPDATED]

[UPDATE] I received an email in response from David to mine, apologizing:

sorry if i came out as a bit hostile, i was just having a bad day, and when i saw your guide, i thought maybe it would show me what i wanted to know.
i see however, you have researched your guide, and maybe you could do a treasures and keys guide aswell? i would love to lend a hand in describing where all the treasures are that i can remember.
and i remember everything lol.

sorry if i ofended you.
hoping you are well, and all that other shit.
david

He blames it on having a bad day. Ok, so maybe you were having a bad day; there's no way for me to say you weren't. He admits that my guide is "researched" and wants me to take this to another level and do a treasures guide. He also wants to help. Sorry, but not interested; it's been 4 years since RE4 and I'm ready for RE5's Gold Edition, as well as thumbing through Zelda and iTablet rumors.


I received an email late last night from a reader - not a blog reader - who has some...distaste towards a guide I wrote for Resident Evil 4. Specifically, I wrote a Version Difference Guide, detailing differences between the GameCube and PS2 versions of the game. Here's what he had to say:

hello, my name is david "kinda obvious from my email addy", and i wanted to tell you, that your FAQ,whatsitcalled on resident evil four, has more holes in it then swiss cheese... i got sick of your mistakes by the time i read ur bit on the blacktails firepower on exclusive... IT IS NOT 3.4, IT IS 4.5 ON THE GAMECUBE. and i should bloody well know, seeing as ive finished it about 28 times now, and im playing it again on pro mode, 3rd round.
i cannot have any opinions on seperate ways, or several of the parts wich the GC misses out on, but i am sick to death of all your mistakes... i will read your guide again, and make a list on the mistakes. i will also give you all the corrections for your mistakes.

but you also forgot to mention something, that even my 4 year old nephew knows... leon looks totally awesome when he wears his pimp suit, and sits in saddlers throne. you forgot that... and you also forgot to mention that once you stand up from that chair, you also look directly above the doorway you came in from, and a treasure becomes painfully obvious as it is just HANGING above the doorway.

i wish i could get the pimp suit on the GC version... ahwell, illhave to get a wii and buy the wii version.

thank you for reading this. i look forward to sending you the full and complete list of all your GC vers mistakes.

This is a copy/paste of his email; I have not altered it in any way. Notice near the end he mentions his 4-year old nephew. For fuck's sake, why are you letting your 4-year old nephew watch you play Resident Evil 4?

Well, I retaliated in the best way: professionalism. Head past the break for my response.