Capcom has confirmed that Resident Evil: Zero will be coming to the Wii, but only in Japan. This confirmation comes from Chris Kramer via Capcom’s blog after rumours of the port started circulating following a scan of a Famitsu magazine.

Kramer confirmed that the “new-old game” was in production but that it would “probably not” be coming to North America or Europe. He commented “For various boring corporate reasons, Capcom Entertainment and Capcom Europe have both decided to take a pass on this particular Wii-make.”

“We are watching the progress on the game, and if it ends up blowing up huge like RE4 Wii did, we’ll evaluate the possibility of bringing it over here and flipping the lingo sos that y’all can read it. In the meantime, your old GC copies of RE: Zero run just fine in your Wii, sans wiggle-waggle action.”

New control system

Resident Evil: Zero is the fifth game in the popular Resident Evil series. It was the last of the series to use the original Resident Evil game play before Capcom changed to the over-the-shoulder perspective in Resident Evil 4. It is a prequel to the first Resident Evil and follows Rebecca Chamber’s ordeal a day prior to the ‘Mansion’ incident. The game also introduced a new character to gamers, Billy Coen, an escaped convict.

It was released in 2003 for the GameCube but now is being remade for the Wii by Capcom Japan to take advantage of the Wii’s controls by incorporating a new control system. Famitsu report that the game will be called BioHazard 0: Wii Edition in Japan (bear in mind that the Resident Evil series is known as BioHazard in Japan).