Major Nelson is reporting that the Resident Evil 5 demo will be released on the Xbox 360 before the Playstation 3. If you haven’t already grabbed yourself a copy via the Japanese 
Marketplace then you will be able to get your hands on a two-level playable demo on January 26th. The game itself is set for release on March 13th in both North America and Europe, 8 days after the Japanese release.
I am not sure as to whether Microsoft wrote a big cheque to Capcom for this or not. You would think that they would have a PS3 demo ready by now as well. Also, surely it’s a bit early for a demo to be released. From demo to actual release there is over a month long gap.
UPDATE: PS3 version of the demo will be available on PSN the week of February 5th.
Project Sora
January 14, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Well, the JP version can’t be downloaded any more if you don’t have a JP Gold Account, so this is definitely good news for anyone in NA and Europe looking to try cooping online.
William
January 15, 2009 at 12:36 am
Looking forward to playing the demo since the whole workaround didn’t really work out.
Patrick
January 15, 2009 at 6:45 am
You forgot to mention that is has both online co-op and splitscreen co-op.