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[CamHostage]

Ah okay, it's just a misunderstanding on my part. I thought RE for PSP was announced prior to the E3 2009 announcement (like alongside DMC) and then just forgotten until the re-announcement. I now know that was not the case.

I remember there being for years a rumor, amongst the many PSP rumors (some of which had roots in reality,) that a Resident Evil was being worked on in the style of Resident Evil Outbreak. (It also had that weird fan-theory-wishing-it-true side-rumor that it was to have the RE4 viewpoint with the RE:O collaborative gameplay style.) Those rumors started some time after Monster Hunter happened though, and probably partially started because the MH team was previously the RE:Outbreak team. And I never saw any documentation of those rumors sourcing Capcom, unlike DMC PSP; nothing official about RE Portable hit until E3 2009.

 

[cvxfreak]

Wait, don't you guys think cvx was being sarcastic?

I was being serious. As far as my knowledge is concerned, RE PSP did indeed turn into Revelations. I don't know how that can be manifested into a development timeline (i.e., it doesn't necessarily mean that development shifted from PSP devkits to 3DS devkits partway through). But that's the info I have and I have every reason to believe it.

 

[Phife Dawg]

Well, I don't think those games struggled because they were 2D games. The Capcom bunch of MegaMan, MegaMan X, Power Stone, Street Fighter and Ghosts and Goblins weren't at their heights of popularity when they received the ports/remakes/sequels Capcom put on PSP. Things like Onimusha, RE (though RE's kind of an always popular brand now), and DMC were when PSP was young. I was arguing that Capcom didn't put their top franchises on the device, and judged support from games that may have struggled elsewhere (MegaMan games didn't do amazingly well on DS either).

Didn't at least that MM ARPG on DS sell well? Forgot the name.

 

[fabricated backlash]

I was being serious. As far as my knowledge is concerned, RE PSP did indeed turn into Revelations. I don't know how that can be manifested into a development timeline (i.e., it doesn't necessarily mean that development shifted from PSP devkits to 3DS devkits partway through). But that's the info I have and I have every reason to believe it.

I guess the notion that a PSP Resident Evil was being scrapped definetly might have coincided with Revelations foundation. So I guess that the only thing both have in common is that they are portable games, and I highly doubt there's anything more that connects them except maybe some conceptional ideas and maybe a team of designers.

From all the official sources, RE PSP was dead (or not a game) when it was announced. It was merely a placeholder from the beginning and I seriously doubt (gathered from various interviews) that there was ever more than a crude design doc to begin with (if at all).
The second RE:R was announced, you couldn't get Capcom to shut up about how great it's going to be. With RE PSP they allways tiptoed around any information.

So at best I think the only shift that happened was that the Resident Evil Portable game project (if you can call it that) was shifted into the production of RE:R.

 

[Takao]

Didn't at least that MM ARPG on DS sell well? Forgot the name.

You mean Star Force? Each game sold less than the last IIRC, and were down hugely from the Battle Network days.