It’s always interesting to see how long-standing franchises attempt to overcome the “valleys” that inevitably happen and reclaim the fanbase that was lost. For Resident Evil, Capcom went back to its roots with the 7th entry, did various things (see: Lady Dimitrescu) to lure people in for the 8th entry, and for the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem, the team aims to close a loop on everything that’s happened in Raccoon City so far. However, another thing Capcom is doing is bringing the game to the Nintendo Switch 2 at launch, which is something they haven’t done for a mainline title in many years.
In an interview with VGC, Resident Evil Requiem director Koshi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazawa both talked about the game and its arrival on Nintendo Switch 2. What Kumazawa noted, though, was that it wasn’t as much trouble as you might think:
“Although we have released ports of the games to Nintendo platforms over the years, as you said, this is a bit more all-in on being day one on Switch 2, and that’s simply because when we got the Switch 2 hardware, we were surprised in a good way about how smooth the process was for us to bring the existing development version of the game to that platform.
It just made sense that we felt that we don’t need to wait on this one or do a separate project after the main game, we can just bring the main game to this hardware immediately.”
That’s a huge deal, as Capcom’s upcoming title looks really good, and so, if the Switch 2 can handle it without any real modifications, that’s a good sign of things to come across multiple 3rd party releases.
Nakanishi then added that part of what helped the process was that Capcom developed the game to be “scalable” so that it could work on consoles as well as high-end PC units that many gamers like to have.
While neither would confirm that this trend of releasing on Switch 2 on day one of big releases will continue, they did make clear that they want to bring this series to as many players as possible.
Oh, and if you want some more proof of what they said, check out this video-captured demo of the Switch 2 version from the Tokyo Game Show!
Resident Evil Requiem Switch 2 gameplay from Tokyo Game Show.
Hands on impressions have been very positive.
The Switch 2 port is very good.https://t.co/ORF89NMCJG
— Stealth (@Stealth40k) September 25, 2025
As you can see, the game looks really good, and it’s clearly running at a high framerate. That matters a lot, because there have been TONS of people who have stated that despite the Switch 2’s improvements, it can’t run “truly high-end” games. Yet, as this and others have shown since the console’s launch, it absolutely can. While this won’t stop people from badmouthing the console, it will be a nice piece of proof to backhand them with.
