Capcom issues Resident Evil: The Mercenaries save data

STN Writes:

Capcom has tonight issued a statement regarding the save data for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D following concerns that the second hand sales value will be affected.

Essentially Capcom is saying that saves are not able to be written over due to a design decision more than anything else. Capcom also says that used copies of the game were not taken into consideration.

[n4gisatroll]

Lies.

[paladinaz]

I hope core RE fans who will blindly buy this game will be disappointed.

[theEx1Le]

Why on earth would you wish that? that just sounds really bitter

[meganick]

I bought it because I really enjoyed the mercenaries mode in the recent console games. The 3DS version is fun, but the lack of save erasing is a dick move on Capcom's part, so I can understand the outrage.

[meganick]

I'm actually more offended by Capcom's refusal to admit the real reason they prevented the erasing of save data than the actual act of preventing the erasing of save data.

[sandreini]

I love Capcom, but don't take us for fools. This is also the Capcom that charged $5 or $15 for DLC that was already on the RE5 disk. Don't go down this path any further, please.

[Godmars290]

Sadly, pretty sure that between them and EA they were the first to open that path.

And really, how many times does this have to be asked: How many versions of Street Fighter 2 did they put out? When did Megaman Network Battle start coming monthly?

Monthly!

[Optical_Matrix]

Never heard so much bullshit

[radphil]

"‘In Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, all mission progress is saved directly to the Nintendo 3DS cartridge, where it cannot be reset"

So explain how hundreds of other games can allow you to overwrite your save on the cartridge?