Red Dead Redemption being ported to Switch and PS4

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Following rumours of a current-gen remaster, Rockstar has instead announced a Red Dead Redemption port for Switch and PlayStation 4.


 

After several weeks of rumours and seeming leaks, Rockstar has come out with some official Red Dead Redemption news ā€“ and no, it isnā€™t the current-gen remaster many were predicting. Instead, the studioā€™s much-loved 2010 western is getting a port to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

The reissue will include the zombie-fied expansion, Undead Nightmare, and will appear on Nintendo eShop next Thursday ā€“ 17 August (thanks, Kotaku).

If you prefer your games on cartridges and discs, then a physical release is due to emerge on 13 October. Thereā€™s a trailer to prove all this, which you can see below these words.

Rumours of a new Red Dead Redemption first began circling in late June, when an update on a Korean games rating board site got everyone excited.

More recently, people digging through the source code on Rockstar Gamesā€™ website noticed a new Red Dead Redemption logo and references to something called RDR1RSP ā€“ leading to theories that it might stand for Red Dead Redemption 1 Remaster SP.

Rockstarā€™s announcement today appears to put hopes of a modern, 4K remake of Red Dead Redemption to bed, at least for now. More gallingly, a much-requested PC version still has yet to emerge.

Then again, 2021ā€™s ā€˜visually enhancedā€™ Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy ā€“ Definitive Edition, which used AI to iffily update three of Rockstarā€™s classic sandbox adventures, was so grim that maybe itā€™s just as well the studio didnā€™t attempt something similarly half-hearted with Red Dead Redemption.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is currently in development at Rockstar, and appears to be set in Miami, according to some leaked footage which emerged last year. Itā€™s currently thought that GTA 6 will emerge sometime between April 2024 and March 2025.

Read more: The chaotic origins of Grand Theft Auto

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