Co-op undermines Dead Rising. Here's how:
1) It ruins the tension. If people are playing with friends, then there's basically no urgency since- base assumption- people will be talking to their friends like they normally do, and sharing their awesome moments. So any attempts to make the player feel like he's in a tense situation, like the 72 hour clock in the last game, will fall flat on their face.
2) It ruins the difficulty. With one person, it's decently hard work fighting off hordes of zombies. But if Left 4 Dead taught us anything, it's that real zombies aren't that bad. There's not enough "special" zombies generating on a routine basis to actually make parts of the game tense and difficult. Instead, it's just mowing down hordes.
3) It complicates the narrative. You would have to write the game especially for two people, but also, so it works in case one of them isn't there. Which is great in, say, light gun shooters, but on an action game as odd as Dead Rising got, you would basically have to write two seperate stories that would change as people accomplished things.
Now. If Capcom can fix all these problems, then, hey, awesome. But I don't think they'll even try for co-op, since RE5 is the big co-op zombie shooter right now, and they don't want to undermine the appeal- limited as it is- of that game.
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