I mentioned GR2, which had the OTS view even without aiming. And every game started using the OTS view after Gears. Not after RE4.
Ok. So in your timeline gears of war came out before resident evil 4. The gears of war trailers were shown before those resident evil 4. Gears of war hit before the resident evil 4 demos. Resident Evil 4 didn't have a massive influence in this generation's action games. I'm cool with that.