You have to love Capcom's work, so this can only be a good thing.  Time will tell if it bears some fruit for the Wii.

Not really news. Ever since 2007, almost every HD developer has been trying to get their games to run on the Wii. It would be stupid not to, especially when the Wii became a surprise hit and their HD games were not getting the revenue to get back their high development costs.

  @oldschool said:

" You have to love Capcom's work, so this can only be a good thing.  Time will tell if it bears some fruit for the Wii. "

It does make me wonder what engine the Darkside Chronicles runs on, because that game looks great for Wii game.  
 

That's a bad example of what the Wii can achieve... Darkside Chronicles is a rails shooter!, you can push just about anything on such a game if a developer is committed enough. And even still, Darkside Chronicles looks plain ugly in areas, it certainly doesn't have anything close to the quality of Capcom's other titles on 360 and PS3, and even Wii for that matter.  
 
The best Capcom example on Nintendo Wii so far is Monster Hunter 3, with MT Framework it should be able to go one better and push more...
 
 

Darkside Chronicles is a perfect example imo, people give too much credit to the "it's on rails you can push the graphics" attitude as I don't think any developer makes engines that way anymore, only SEGA probably ever did while pushing their old school arcade hardware to its limit. With how much Darkside Chronicles must have been edited over time in regards to the camera views, the shaking, the paths the player should take through the level, the enemy placements and their number to provide a good pace and challenge, path tweaks until the last minute, it's probably made conventionally like any other engine and could handle an action adventure without too much change. It looks ugly in some places but I can think of plenty popular HD games that look ugly in some places, that doesn't mean much other than time contraints, putting the effort where it's most necessary, and that while it looks like a quality title it's still pretty low budget compared to others. Still, Cavia did excellent work.

As for this engine, it remains to be seen what it's used for. I'd be more confident if they made a new engine for Wii, I'm not comfortable with them bringing a previously multiplatform as it also hints at more ports rather than exclusive titles, that could end up pretty messy on the visual front, like for example the COD engine Treyarch ported. I mean, what are they going to do, bring us a watered down Lost Planet 2? Why not use the engine of the original that can probably run on Wii almost identically, give or take a few effects, and make a new adventure with it of course, since Lost Planet had a fair share of issues. Something like Lost Planet 1.5, or even 2.5, in terms of story, with all their gameplay experience from the 2nd game. On the other hand it could also end up sweet like Ubisoft's LyN engine (why put them down after RS2, Anno and likely more?).

This is great news, in my opinion.
 
After seeing Monster Hunter on Wii, I'm sure a Lost Planet game could work well. I played the PS3 demo of Lost Planet 2 the other day and I thought it was such a fantastic game. I would imagine using the Wii-mote to aim would work very well in a Wii version and it'd definitely be something I would like to see in the future from Capcom. I'd rather not see a port though, but an original game to add to the franchise.

Wait... Dead Rising on the Wii doesn't use MT Framework? 
Also would they port MT 1 or MT 2? Or would it be a new offshoot?

" Darkside Chronicles is a perfect example imo, people give too much credit to the "it's on rails you can push the graphics" attitude as I don't think any developer makes engine that way anymore, only SEGA probably ever did while pushing their old school arcade hardware to its limit. With how much Darkside Chronicles must have been edited over time in regards to the camera views, the shaking, the paths the player should take through the level, the enemy placements and their number to provide a good pace and challenge, path tweaks until the last minute, it's probably made conventionally like any other engine and could handle an action adventure without too much change. It looks ugly in some places but I can think of plenty popular HD games that look ugly in some places, that doesn't mean much other than time contraints, putting the effort where it's most necessary, and that while it looks like a quality title it's still pretty low budget compared to others. Still, Cavia did excellent work.As for this engine, it remains to be seen what it's used for. I'd be more confident if they made a new engine for Wii, I'm not comfortable with them bringing a previously multiplatform engine to it because that could end up pretty messy on the visual front, like for example the COD engine Treyarch ported, while it also hints at more ports rather than exclusive titles. I mean, what are they going to do, bring us a watered down Lost Planet 2? Why not use the engine of the original that can probably run on Wii almost identically, give or take a few effects, and make a new adventure with it of course, since Lost Planet had a fair share of issues. Something like Lost Planet 1.5, or even 2.5, in terms of story, with all their gameplay experience from the 2nd game put to work. On the other hand it could also end up pretty sweet like Ubisoft's LyN engine. "

But Extraction also doesn't look as good as Darkside Chronicles so clearly there's always room for improvement and optimisation. Maybe with more time Cavia's engine can be optimised to produce an action adventure with the visuals toned down. Or at least the Extraction engine since that clearly has more room for optimisation to reach the level of Darkside Chronicles. As for interactivity, meh, not many games have much more than picking up items and smashing the odd barrel or other object, which Darkside Chronicles does include.

@MrKlorox said:

" Wait... Dead Rising on the Wii doesn't use MT Framework? "

Extraction looks fantastic and playing it, it didn't feel any less "interactive" than most FPS and TPS.

Well anyway at the very least it shows they intend to make some more non-Chronicles Wii games (they'd use the existing engine for those) :-P

Some are speculating that it could be for Nintendo's next console, and not the Wii...

I hope this means a Wii port for Resident Evil 5. Without mandatory Sheva AI partner and shitty inventory.

" Some are speculating that it could be for Nintendo's next console, and not the Wii... "

" Some are speculating that it could be for Nintendo's next console, and not the Wii... "

" Some are speculating that it could be for Nintendo's next console, and not the Wii... "