During an interview between U.S publication Game Pro and Masachika Kawata of Capcom on Resident Evil : Umbrella Chronicles, the idea of online functionality in future RE titles would be fascinating and might happen, though the company has no plans to pursue that at this time.

Are there plans for on-line functionality for this, or any up-coming, Resident Evil games?

MK: We’d definitely like to bring online elements into the game; both Umbrella Chronicles and to future titles. We don’t have any [definite] plans, though we’d like to. [editor note: Capcom's PR team stressed that online is not a currently planned feature, merely a desire on the part of the developers].

You can check out the (brief) interview right on the official Game Pro website.