Red Dead Redemption Is Coming To Nintendo Switch And PlayStation
Rockstar has finally confirmed the rumoured Red Dead Redemption port. It's set to launch on PS4 and Nintendo Switch on August 17 with a physical release set to follow on October 13.
Before the GTA Trilogy was announced, leakers claimed talks about a Red Dead Redemption remaster/remake were being held at Rockstar, but it was allegedly shelved following the Trilogy's poor reception to focus on GTA 6. Rumours picked up again on June 28 as RDR was re-registered on the South Korean ratings board. This picked up steam with several website updates, including a new prefix for the game, "Rockstar Presents". It looks like all of this was leading toward the Nintendo Switch and PS4 ports, as this is not a remaster or remake as the website lists the original backwards compatible Xbox version for purchase alongside the two new versions.
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Red Dead Redemption only appears as "Announced" on the PlayStation store page, but it has a digital listing on the Nintendo eShop that reveals it's $49.99. On Xbox 360 (via Xbox One and Series X/S backwards compatibility) you can pick it up for $29.99, with the Undead Nightmare pack costing $9.99. That's a total of $39.98. However, the PS4 and Switch ports include "bonus content from the Game of the Year edition".
We do know that the PS4 and Switch ports come bundled with the Undead Nightmare DLC, in which John Marston wakes up to "deranged hordes [who] have overrun the towns and outposts of the American frontier". You're tasked with saving his family by finding a cure, but you have to fend off the Western zombies long enough to do so.
The base game also sees you playing as John Marston, a former outlaw whose family are threatened by federal agents (better
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