Wed, Jan 14, 2009 | 19:09 GMT
Resident Evil 5 360 demo coming January 26 [Update]
Major Nelson has announced that Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 demo will be available to download from Xbox Live Marketplace on January 26.
The demo is presumably the one that Japan got early last month. We grabbed it back then and can tell you that it’s really rather good indeed.
Earlier today, Capcom claimed that it feels Resi 5 could be the biggest Resident Evil yet in what could be the company’s strongest first quarter in its history.
We’re just checking to make sure that both Europe and PlayStation 3 are included in the January 26th Resident Evil love-in.
Update: According to PS3F, the demo will be ready to go on PlayStation Network from February 5.
We’ll check with Sony to ask if Europe is included.
By Mike Bowden
6 comments
#1
XDamage
14/01/09, 6:56 pm
Hmm, I thought the demo was 360 exclusive. Nice.
#2
mortiferus
14/01/09, 6:57 pm
No surprise here. RE5 development has been faster on 360.
#3
Psychotext
14/01/09, 7:08 pm
Should be worth a go. Hopefully it will be as good as some of the old titles.
#4
ecu
15/01/09, 3:51 am
We’ll check with Sony to ask if Europe is included.
Doesn’t really matter though, does it? You can just download PS3 demo’s from any store, and unlike Microsoft, Sony don’t seem to mind. It’s one of the things they’ve got very right in this generation.
It’s hard to get excited about it though, since it’s clearly the exact same demo as we’ve all already played.
#5
Psychotext
15/01/09, 4:01 am
Some of us haven’t played it yet… far too much hassle setting up accounts for every region.
#6
Blerk
15/01/09, 8:34 am
Good-oh. I look forward to meh-ing it at the end of the month, then.