Report: Rockstar Canceled Red Dead Redemption 2 PS5 & Xbox Series X|S Ports

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A pair of recent reports claimed that Rockstar Games had canned modern remasters of and due to the poor reception of 2021’s . And now a follow-up comment from an insider behind one of those reports has stated that the company also halted plans for a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S version of .

As noted by PlayStation Lifestyle, Rockstar insider Tez posted a reply on the Rockstar forums in response to a question regarding possible PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the 2018 game. Tez plainly stated that they had “heard about those a long time ago” along with plans to make an enhanced Rockstar Editor (a tool that lets players record, edit, and share videos with an array of camera options and tools), but they were all canceled or halted.

Rockstar never officially announced PS5 or Xbox Series X|S ports of the highly rated sequel, but they were assumed to come in the future. Before , Rockstar often rereleased its games quite often on newer platforms. Titles like ,,,, and were all rereleased on later systems they didn’t originally launch on, but  was the most prominent, showing up on both generations after the PS2 originals. Rockstar’s previous game before,, had also been released on the PS4 and Xbox One generation as well as the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, showing a pattern that Rockstar was presumably going to continue with its cowboy epic.

However, those plans seem to have changed as Rockstar has been allocating more resources for the next . The aforementioned reports stated that Rockstar was choosing to focus on that upcoming installment of the series instead of chasing remasters. A recent official blog post about and also said the company was “steadily moving more development resources towards the next entry in the series