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Capcom Asks If Fans Want RE5: Alternate Edition To Be DLC Or Retail
Back at TGS it was revealed that Capcom would be giving Resident Evil 5 the director's cut treatment, complete with utilized PlayStation 3 motion control. While it's been decided that the game will be arriving Japan on a physical disc, Capcom is leaving the format decision up to North American and European fans -- DLC or retail?
"Since you will ultimately be the people buying and playing this new content, we've decided that you should be the ones telling us how to make it available," said Chris Kramer on his Capcom-Unity blog. The blog post also sported a nifty poll allowing Capcom-Unity members to vote for either "a new box and a physical disc," or the ability to "download the new content digitally as soon as it's ready!"
The poll will run for a few weeks, until Capcom has a good idea about what the community wants. Kramer adds, "the demand for DLC in the west is huge. More and more, gamers in North America and Europe want content immediately and are less inclined to be tied to boxes and packages."
I think the biggest kicker here would be if the DLC version came at a reduced price. Who'd be silly enough to pass that up? What are you folks voting for?
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