Ever for the reason that first giant blowout Direct for the Transfer 2 again in April, I’ve been itching to peer a statement for Resident Evil at the new console. It’s perhaps my favorite sequence of all time, finally, so I’m desperate to play the hot entries on a Nintendo console with no need to connect with the bloomin’ Cloud. Heck, aren’t all of us?
I’ve been banging on about it such a lot over on-line chats and conferences that I’m rather positive my colleagues had been with regards to in poor health of it weeks in the past. So you’ll consider how a lot my pleasure ramped up when rumours started to floor about now not handiest current RE Engine video games making their strategy to Transfer 2, but additionally the approaching 9th mainline access, Resident Evil Requiem.
Indisputably now not, proper? We’re Nintendo fanatics, for goodness’ sake; we’re used to getting ports of video games months, if now not years after their unencumber on different platforms. That’s in the event that they even get ported in any respect, in fact. Which steadily isn’t the case. And that’s superb, y’know, we’ve were given our personal first-party video games to experience, plus a plethora of unbelievable indie titles.
However then it came about. In opposition to on the finish of the most recent Nintendo Direct, atmospheric pictures of spooky hallways emerged, adopted by means of the ringing of a phone. ‘Is that this Resident Evil?!’ I requested myself. And, stone the crows, it was once! No longer simply any Resident Evil both, however as rumoured, it was once Resident Evil Requiem, launching day-and-date with different consoles on twenty seventh February 2026.
This, for my part, represents a sexy vital shift for the Transfer 2 early in its lifespan. As I mentioned, we’re so used to getting ports of video games lengthy after their preliminary unencumber on different platforms (or, in relation to Borderlands 4, only some weeks later), however it is a main new access in one of the vital largest gaming franchises of all time – a franchise through which 4 of the 13 titles to be had on Transfer had been relegated to Cloud Variations. But there it was once; a local port launching proper along the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S.
There was once as soon as a time – very in short, thoughts you – through which Capcom and Nintendo had been besties, with the previous bringing a number of exclusives to the GameCube, together with the now-iconic Resident Evil 4. Due to lukewarm gross sales, it did not closing lengthy, and with Nintendo therefore moving into a vastly other course to Sony and Microsoft, flagship RE video games simply were not a factor on Nintendo consoles anymore.
The luck of the Transfer did exchange issues rather somewhat, and Capcom has performed an admirable activity in supporting the machine through the years, however from the buyer’s standpoint, and from our standpoint, Cloud Variations simply are not excellent sufficient, and it felt like Transfer homeowners had been nonetheless drawing the fast straw. Now, we are again within the driving force’s seat, and it feels glorious.
Don’t get me flawed, I’m now not anticipating some main revolution through which each writer rushes to release their flagship video games at the Transfer 2, however the console’s exceptional luck since its release only a handful of months again has obviously made executives take a seat up and listen. This, at the side of the Transfer 2’s favourably similar specifications to the Sequence S has made rapid ports of recent video games a a lot more most probably prospect.
Now, you should make the argument that Resident Evil Requiem isn’t the primary ‘AAA’ sport to release day-and-date with different platforms. We had Tony Hawk Professional Skater 3 + 4 again in July, NBA 2K26 previous this month, and EA Sports activities FC 26 is launching simply subsequent week. However let’s be honest, publishers would nonetheless be liberating sports activities video games at the PS2 in the event that they idea they may break out with it.
Seeing video games like Cyberpunk 2077, Famous person Wars Outlaws, and Boulevard Fighter 6 gave me quite a lot of hope that the Transfer 2 can be a excellent house for contemporary blockbusters, although it method ready simply that little bit longer. Then Cronos: The New Crack of dawn came about, and that felt like a excellent nudge in the best course.
Resident Evil Requiem, regardless that? Yeah, that’s on a complete new degree. It is a giant deal, and I sincerely hope it indicates somewhat extra openness from publishers to release their video games at the Transfer 2 along different platforms.
Additionally it is value bringing up that we are getting 007 First Mild in March 2026 along different platforms, and there is a excellent probability the untitled 3rd access within the Ultimate Myth VII Remake trilogy will even land day-and-date. Excellent issues are taking place other folks!
Whether or not it continues is most probably all the way down to how neatly those video games if truth be told promote, so… Yeah, purchase Resident Evil Requiem, everybody.
What do you suppose, pricey reader? Will we begin seeing extra ports day-and-date with different platforms on Transfer 2? Tell us with a remark.
