Nintendo (Mr. Iwata & Mr. Miyamoto as figureheads specifically) did approach several Japanese publishers for support early on. Mr. Miyamoto went so far as to say that he would personally help them get started on GAMECUBE games by showing them the ropes of the new system.
I had heard in an interview, after the whole RE exclussivity handshake thing, that Mr. Mikami called Mr. Miyamoto SPECIFICALLY asking wether the RE series would be appropriate for GAMECUBE. Mr. Miyamoto even said durring this interview that he didn't like violence, but that he admitted that violence was a form of expression for this form of art (game making) so he said Nintendo welcomed the series with open arms knowing that they themselves wouldn't make such games. There was even mention that Nintendo had helped CAPCOM with the first RE remake trailor with some of the creepy forrest scenery.
There was no contract or exclussivity timeframe or even money exchanged. This was a handshake deal between two game-makers! This could be the whole problem altogether...Mr. Mikami viewed RE as *HIS* series and his series would go on whichever system he chose...but CAPCOM, the company, viewed the series as *thier* valued franchise which is why everything happened the way it did. Why was it that Mr. Mikami and his team of people who worked on the games were the ones who always said that the games were "only for" GAMECUBE time and time again...all the while the higher-ups would change things and say, oh no GAMECUBE only get's the "main" games while PS2 get's the side stuff and online Outbreak. I would say Sony probably used thier influence with the RE movie to make that happen and thus give the perception to PS2 owners that: "don't worry, RE isn't exclussive to that other system" and looky looky, it worked!
If there HAD been a contract then Nintendo WOULD have something to say I garauntee...and if Nintendo had paid for exclussivity and the "CAPCOM 5"...why are they all going to PS2 as well? There was no contract. Nowhere have I heard about "it's up in 2005" either. In fact Mr. Mikami had even said at one point that "these games will NOT go to any other system THIS generation or NEXT!" Tell me, why would he believe, let alone say, such a thing if this suppossed "contract" was "up in 2005"?
DMC, suppossedly, was originally meant to be RE4, but no one ever said DMC would be on GAMECUBE. Mr. Mikami (after the RE exclussivity handshake) DID jokingly say how he'd like to bring DMC to GAMECUBE, but Sony probably paid for exclussivity of that series making that the *only* comment ever made about the game heading to GAMECUBE.
The comments I made about people leaving for Nintendo were just speculation/wishful thinking. Mr. Mikami, from what we know now, is still staying with CAPCOM and is off to Clover Studio's after he leaves RE4 work at PS4. But then again, he has either really been humbled and taken down 20 notches and "put in his place" by CAPCOM higher-ups, or he's absolutly furious and ready to leave...we just don't know 'cos he hasn't said anything since this thing went down recently.
And yes, SolidSnakex is right...Mr. Mikami isn't anti-Sony pro-Nintendo, he's anti-PS2 pro-GAMECUBE is more like it. Soundwave05 is also right, Mr. Okamoto has his own company now, he ain't going to Nintendo even if somehow Mr. Mikami does.
