Resident Evil: Requiem on Nintendo Switch 2 'Wasn't in the Original Plan', Says Developer

At the astir caller Nintendo Direct, Nintendo fans were blessed with the quality that not one, not two, but 3 modern Resident Evil games would beryllium coming to Nintendo Switch 2: Village, Requiem, and Biohazard. But according to Requiem's developers, this wasn't ever the plan. In fact, the squad didn't primitively program to bring thing to the Switch 2 astatine all.

Speaking to maine astatine Tokyo Game Show, shaper Masato Kumazawa explains the communicative of however the Nintendo Switch 2 ended up with the 3 astir modern Resident Evil games connected their mode to the system:

The Switch 2 hadn't been announced erstwhile we started readying this crippled [Requiem], truthful of people it wasn't successful the archetypal plan. When the Switch 2 was announced we were capable to commencement investigating processing games for it, and we thought it would beryllium large if we could bring the Resident Evil bid to this platform. We started disconnected with internally porting Resident Evil: Village to spot if it would enactment good connected the hardware, and it looked truly great, truthful that gave america the assurance to adhd a Switch 2 mentation of Reqiuem to the plans, and that led america to the caller announcement wherever we confirmed not lone Reqiuem was coming, but 7 and 8 would besides beryllium coming to Nintendo Switch 2 astatine the aforesaid time.

It's nary astonishment that Kumazawa is gassing up the Switch 2 larboard of his ain game, but I played a little conception of Resident Evil: Requiem astatine Tokyo Game Show successful handheld mode connected the level and...yeah, it looks beauteous good! I asked him arsenic a follow-up if determination was thing unsocial astir the Switch 2 mentation of the game, and his effect that no, determination isn't, "in a bully way." It's conscionable Requiem, connected the Switch 2, capable to beryllium taken connected the go. And though my sampling of this acquisition was brief, I'm optimistic from that abbreviated demo that Kumazawa's not conscionable each speech here.

We previewed Resident Evil: Requiem conscionable past month, and you tin work our impressions of what we've seen truthful acold close here. You tin besides cheque retired the remainder of my treatment with Nakanishi and Kumazawa, including continued efforts to get them to accidental something, anything, astir Leon Kennedy, and wherefore the brace are struggling to fig retired what qualifies arsenic "scary" aft each these years. We've besides antecedently spoken to the brace connected a fig of different topics, specified arsenic Raccoon City's instrumentality and the game's caller monster design.

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