Rockstar snubs PC with baffling Red Dead Redemption 1 port that's only coming to Switch and PS4
In a move that stunned onlookers (me) and assembled experts (also me) are describing as «mystifying,» Rockstar has finally come out and announced its freeing Red Dead Redemption 1 from its PS3 and Xbox 360 prison, by, uh, porting it to the Nintendo Switch and the… PS4? Apparently so!
On August 17, the beloved Western experience Red Dead Redemption and its horror companion Undead Nightmare arrive together for the first time on the Nintendo Switch and modern PlayStation systems.Add Red Dead Redemption to your wish list now: https://t.co/kB4TjexkKn pic.twitter.com/lc46gZqqwAAugust 7, 2023
Announced today, the new «conversion» of the original RDR is set to leave its outdated platforms behind in favour of other, different outdated platforms on August 17, marking the anticlimax of a story which got properly started in June this year, when the Korean game rating agency let slip that it had taken a look at a game called «Red Dead Redemption». It's not coming to PC at all, which is as confusing as it is kind of funny, in that way despair is funny.
Plenty of people—myself included, I admit—hoped the Korean leak presaged a new edition of the Rockstar classic on PC and modern consoles for the first time ever. Alas, it's not to be, no matter how much Rockstar tries to sell it as coming «to modern PlayStation systems» in its announcement. Backwards compatibility for PS4 games on the PS5 doesn't count, Rockstar!
The conversion isn't being done by Rockstar. Instead, it's being carried out by Double Eleven, a British studio that was founded by former Rockstar devs in 2009. You might know it as the developer that currently oversees production of Prison Architect after Introversion moved on to other things.
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