Amid a barrage of rumors through the last three years.

Amid a barrage of rumors through the last three years, Capcom has continued to vehemently disown that the visually jaw-dropping and GameCube-exclusive Resident Evil 4 would find its way to other comforts Even series creator Shinji Mikami was supremely confident that day would not at any time come. “Resident Evil 4 will definitely release no other than on GameCube,” professed Mikami back in 2002 “If it [come to another console] I will wound my head off.” Time to sharpen the axe.

Capcom has announced that in addition to the game’s release forward GameCube this January, a PlayStation 2 version is generally in the works and awaited to land on store shelves any time next winter. According to a company statement, the decision was made “to satisfy the demands of our fans and our desire to introduce the series to of the present day gamers.” We’re sure it also had a little something to do with satisfying the demands of their piggy banks, as 72 million PS2 units have shipped worldwide (compared to alone 14.5 million for GameCube). No specifics about the PS2 edition were revealed.

As for all of you with an Xbox a Capcom spokesperson divulges us that the possibility of this third-person survival-horrorfest (starring Leon Kennedy of RE2 fame) arriving onward Microsoft’s system “has yet to be determined.”

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