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Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi has previously stated that Resident Evil 5’s main development platform is on the PC. When Eurogamer asked Takeuchi why Capcom was showing the Xbox 360 build of Resident Evil 5 instead of the PlayStation 3 version at Capcom’s Captivate 08 event, Takeuchi clarified that Capcom was requested to show RE5 up and running on a console, due to their hardware similarities it was just faster to port the PC build over to the Xbox 360.
But while this will surely start rumors of the survival horror game coming to the PC, Capcom bluntly told gaming site IGN, …read more

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Capcom has reporteed that the latest in its Monster Hunter franchise has shipped over one million units in Japan in merely six days of sale. Monster Hunter 2G for Sony’s PlayStation Portable was released in the region on March 27, with a special edition Slim & Lite PSP bundle also available.
Monster Hunter has definitely attained the status as Capcom’s top-selling franchises, with a total of 6.3 million units sold as of April 1, 2008.

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Good news for Capcom on the XBL front:
Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008 – Capcom’s Devil May Cry 4 demo on the Xbox LIVE service passed its one millionth download, and is still going strong. According to Microsoft, not only is this the first demo of 2008 to hit a million downloads, but it’s also one of the fastest downloads to hit the one million mark in the history of the LIVE service. The demo appeared on the network January 24, and has been averaging over 25,000 downloads a day ever since. Additionally, the game has been a huge hit at retail, …read more

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Capcom has announced it will bring the latest edition in its Ace Attorney series to North America on February 12, 2008. While previous entries in the series have focused on the titular character Phoenix Wright, this time players will be controlling series newcomer Apollo Justice. This is the fourth game in the series and the first designed specifically for the DS (previous DS Ace Attorney games were ports of original japanese Game Boy Advance titles).

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GoNintendo has a picture from the GameStop website indicating that Resident Evil 4 on the Wii will ship June: 25th and will reportedly only cost $30. Here’s the picture before it was taken down (link) from the GameStop website:

 
Capcom’s response also via GoNintendo:

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