The First Red Dead Redemption Is Coming to the PS4 and Switch This August

Rockstar Games announced that Red Dead Redemption is going to the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch digitally on August 17, 2023. Physical copies of the game will then be released on October 13, 2023.

This isn’t a remaster of any sort as the original game is simply being ported over to the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch together with it’s zombie DLC Undead Nightmare. Since the PS5 features backwards compatibility, this makes Red Dead Redemption available on the console as well. The port was done by a studio called Double Eleven Studios.

Here’s a quick rundown of the game, which first launched on the PS3 and Xbox 360 back in 2010.

“One of the most critically acclaimed games of all time with over 170 Game of the Year Awards, Red Dead Redemption tells the story of former outlaw John Marston as he journeys across the sprawling expanses of the American West and Mexico to track down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in a bid to save his family. Relive, or experience for the first time, the events immediately following the epic tale of honor and loyalty in the 2018 blockbuster Red Dead Redemption 2 as Marston hunts down his former friends and outlaws Bill Williamson, Javier Escuella, and his former gang leader, Dutch van der Linde as the era of the cowboy comes to its end.”

For those unfamiliar, Red Dead Redemption is actually the sequel to Red Dead Redemption 2 as the original game is set years after the events of the second game.

The only real new addition to this version of the game is more language support as the game now includes Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Latin American Spanish.

The Red Dead Redemption port will cost $49.99.

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