By Sickr on September 27, 2025

IGN has sat down with Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa to learn more about how the game came to be on the Nintendo Switch 2. Mr. Kumazawa says that the team at Capcom weren't initially planning to have Resident Evil Requiem on Nintendo's new platform, but after testing Resident Evil Village on the Nintendo Switch 2, which ran well, they decided to try and see if they could get Requiem up and running. Thankfully, it proved to be a success so the team decided to announce the game for the system along with Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil Village.

"The Switch 2 hadn't been announced when we started planning this game [Requiem], so of course it wasn't in the original plan. When the Switch 2 was announced we were able to start testing developing games for it, and we thought it would be great if we could bring the Resident Evil series to this platform. We started off with internally porting Resident Evil: Village to see if it would work well on the hardware, and it looked really great, so that gave us the confidence to add a Switch 2 version of Reqiuem to the plans, and that led us to the recent announcement where we confirmed not only Reqiuem was coming, but 7 and 8 would also be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 at the same time."