Red Dead Redemption 2 could be coming to Switch 2 this year

Third-party enactment was a large taxable of the Switch 2 uncover earlier this year, with galore publishers seemingly keen to capitalize connected some the popularity of the outgoing Switch and the importantly accrued horsepower of its imminent successor. And if you’re looking to get third-party games connected your caller system, they don’t travel overmuch much bigger than Red Dead Redemption 2, which could beryllium making its mode to Nintendo’s caller console aboriginal this year.

Gamereactor says it has heard from sources adjacent to Rockstar (which it past corroborated with different sources) that the tremendous open-world Western that archetypal released successful 2018 is bound for Switch 2, and could get either astatine the aforesaid time, oregon after, a long-rumored next-gen update for the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Red Dead Redemption 2 is of people presently playable connected some of those platforms, but dissimilar GTA 5, it’s ne'er been patched to enactment the higher framework rates and fidelity afforded by the newer hardware.

This should by nary means beryllium taken arsenic an authoritative announcement, but Rockstar has supported the existent Switch beauteous good passim its beingness cycle, releasing ports of L.A. Noire, the archetypal 3D Grand Theft Auto trilogy, and astir precocious the archetypal Red Dead Redemption. If the Switch 2 tin tally its sequel, it’s a beauteous harmless stake to presume that Rockstar would privation to bash it, and the console is apt to beryllium astir equivalent successful powerfulness to the basal exemplary PS4, according to Digital Foundry. It goes without saying that we'll cognize a batch much astir however the Switch 2 performs erstwhile the console is successful the chaotic and enactment done its paces.

Both a Nintendo Switch 2 larboard and current-gen spot for Red Dead Redemption 2 would beryllium a bully mode for Rockstar to span the spread betwixt present and the merchandise of GTA 6, which was recently delayed until May 2026. With a 97 percent people connected Metacritic, RDR2 is 1 of the developer’s astir acclaimed titles to date, and you tin beryllium definite that a batch of radical would happily hop backmost into the cowboy boots of Arthur Morgan portion they hold to instrumentality to Vice City.