lmao at RE3 not pushing the story forward. What happened to Raccoon City at the end of your copy of RE3?
Stuff changes all the time mid-development, especially in planning stages before any of this stuff is publicly revealed. Just because CV was, at some conceptual stage envisioned as RE3 does not make it RE3. RE3 is RE3. The claim about some sort of Sony partnership or contract restricting numbered games to the PS1 is also something I see oft-repeated but literally never proved or cited with a source.
The claim that Capcom also "went all out" and were trying new things in CV is absurd since CV has considerably less new things than RE3, and even the new things it does have are done with less frequency and importance than RE3's new features. Dual weapons are restricted to only a couple of weapons you can't even reload, and the FPV gimmick is used twice in two very brief boss fights outside of the battle mode.
You didn't get the part where even the creators consider CV the real RE3?? One was clearly more ambitious than the other one. Even if some hated the game.