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Capcom is reportedly planning to bring a large number of Resident Evil series titles to the Nintendo Switch 2, a claim that lit up 5ch’s hardware/industry board. The trigger was first-week sales data for this year’s Resident Evil Requiem — 155,373 units on PS5 versus 38,793 on Switch 2. Combined with Sony’s announced move away from disc drives, posters speculated that users who prefer buying physical copies might migrate to Switch 2, and the thread also lit up with wishes for old-game remakes and predictions about future ports.
What people said
[First-week sales] Resident Evil Requiem — PS5: 155,373 units, Switch 2: 38,793 units
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1772715647/
And with the disc drive gone, looks like every disc user is migrating to Switch 2 🫵🤣
Is Sony really willing to abandon this many users who bought on disc?
The GameCube version remaster is the latest one we've got.
Well, if they knew discs were getting axed, this all makes sense.
Discs discontinued, no longer stocked in stores
No PS6 planned
Don't even need to keep selling PS5 anymore
Of course people are jumping ship.
Can you even aim by pointing directly at the screen without a sensor bar though?
Even in Japan, Switch 2 ended up outselling PS5 in the back half. Overseas it's probably even more lopsided.
The Switch 1 version was a cloud version to begin with, remember.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword is coming out, so yeah, Okami probably really is headed to Switch 2 as well.
The 7/8/9 bundle was such a good deal, but it never got reprinted so I couldn't get it. Should've bought it when I had the chance.
For RE2 through 4, it probably won't be any different from the versions already out there. Though whether it runs at 30fps or 60fps is a fair concern.
For 5, I'd want them to fix the inability to move while aiming. 6 needs a full ground-up rebuild honestly.
Never even noticed that.
The one adding the heart always has a post ID ending in 'r,' so it's probably the same person.
Announcing it at State of Play would basically be a punishment game lol
They're the type to keep up appearances out of obligation, so they'll probably at least feature the Wilds DLC.
Full price only survives on Switch now lol
Well, they've focused on PlayStation up to now, and PS does have more Resident Evil fans. But for multiplatform titles overall, Nintendo users actually buy more copies — outside of a handful of exceptions, PS users really don't buy as many games.
Even though Like a Dragon and Pragmata both got crushed on Switch 2, the only games where Switch 2 has outsold PS5 are basically shovelware lol
Honestly, I figured I'd keep holding onto my PS5 as long as I could still save money buying physical. But now that option's gone. And it's happening mid-cycle for the PS5, no less.
A PS5 with no disc drive is nothing but a downgraded PC — it has no reason to exist anymore lol
Paying for online on top of that feels wasteful too, so a lot of people will probably just sell off the whole console.
Seems like it keeps selling steadily across a lot of countries over the long run. They're probably not judging things by first-week numbers alone, and if a port is doable, there's no real reason not to release it.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The premise behind this discussion is the actual sales gap in first-week figures for this year’s Resident Evil Requiem: 155,373 units on PS5 versus 38,793 units on Switch 2. Looking at those numbers alone, PS5 appears to be winning by a landslide, but posters’ interest was really directed at what comes next — specifically, with Sony signaling plans to drop the disc drive, which platform physical-media buyers would migrate to. Capcom’s long-running business model of profiting from ports and remakes of older titles was also a hot topic, alongside discussion of past franchises like Okami, Onimusha, and Ace Attorney. It’s also worth noting that claims along the lines of “Switch 2 is outselling PS5” appeared in the thread, but no concrete figures or sources were given to back them up — they should be read as posters’ personal impressions rather than verified data.
*This article was compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Capcom Reportedly Planning to Bring Resident Evil Titles to Switch 2 en Masse♥.”
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