Capcom developers have discussed the upcoming Switch 2 version of Resident Evil Requiem, saying the studio was impressed by the hardware and that it “just made sense.”
Producer Masato Kumazawa told VGC, that, “We were surprised in a good way about how smooth the process was for us” to bring Requiem to Switch 2.
“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,” he said.
That’s something of a change for the Resident Evil series, as no mainline installments have released day one on a Nintendo platform in decades. But Requiem is coming to Switch 2 in February 2026 alongside the PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S editions.
Another Capcom developer, Koshi Nakanishi, said Requiem was being developed in a “highly scalable way,” so even though the Switch 2 isn’t as powerful as other systems, it can still run Requiem. “It wasn’t that difficult for the console platforms and also high end PCs with path tracing and that kind of thing, so adding the Switch 2 into that mix was just a case of somewhere else to scale it to rather than a particularly massive challenge,” Nakanishi said.
Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village are coming to Switch 2 alongside the release of Requiem in 2026.
Kumazawa went on to say that after Capcom received Switch 2 development kits, the company first prototyped Resident Evil Village on the hardware. After tests proved that Village could run natively on Switch 2, the company had confidence it could consider Requiem for Switch 2 as well.
“It just made sense to us to release them all at the same time when Requiem comes out, so that in one go, you go from not having these games on Switch 2 to–if someone is a new player and they want to check out the three most recent games in the series–they can just jump in. You can go from the new game, or start at 7 and go through to 9,” Kumazawa said.
In addition to Resident Evil Requiem, Sony is producing a Resident Evil movie with Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger attached to write and direct. The film hits theaters in September 2026.
Before this, CD Projekt Red said it wasn’t as challenging as expected to get Cyberpunk 2077 running on Switch 2. Gearbox, meanwhile, has delayed the Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4 following reports of technical issues with the game on other platforms.
