Yesterday, Capcom officially revealed whatsome of us had already known— thereare multiplayer versus modes forResident Evil 5. The catch? They’re not on the disc, but instead are being offered as downloadable content for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, for 400 MS Points and $4.99 respectively.
As with any DLC announced, especially one so close to a release (or in this case, before), people raised a few eyebrows. In a statement toMSXbox World, Capcom explains the decision to price the content.
“Although Versus mode makes use of the assets that exist in the game, the functionality is not currently in the game and is above and beyond the initial scope ofResident Evil 5,” the publisher said. “We have never included a versus mode inResident Evilbefore, and as well as the costs of development of the feature, there’s also additional bandwidth costs associated with it.”
As gamers, are you happy with this response? Do you accept the cost of the additional modes, or do you firmly believe they should have (and could have) been included out of the box? And do you thinkResident Evil 5versus will even “work”?
We’re at the Dtoid offices this morning frantically putting together our HDResident Evil 5video review; the text is like, totally done, man. So check back later this afternoon for that thing we speak of.
