Resident Evil Revelations was a great deviation from the way the series had been going. By adding the action elements that games like the 5th installment were so hellbent on pushing, along with the more “classic” gameplay of actual survival horror, Resident Evil Revelations was a fine 3DS title, and eventually saw ports to Xbox 360, PS3, and the Wii U.
So when Resident Evil Revelations 2 was announced to not be coming to any Nintendo platforms, it came as a bit of a shock. The 3DS version was the best selling version of the game by far, so why the snub? Producer Michiteru Okabe explained it in a recent interview.
“The original game was released on home consoles a little while after the 3DS. It was called the ‘Unveiled Edition’ in Japan but just Resident Evil Revelations for consoles in the West. That’s where our starting point for the sequel is in a sense, the versions that were already on home platforms.
It’s partly a technical reason. We have our own custom engine called the MT Framework, and as the mobile and home console versions are quite different technically, given that we were taking the home console versions as a starting point, it just led somewhat naturally. We tried to release it on as many platforms as we could, and that later became a selection of current and next-gen Xbox and PlayStation platforms as well as PC, so that’s how we ended up with that.”
While that may explain the lack of a 3DS version, it still doesn’t explain the lack of a Wii U version of the game.
