A new rating on the ESRB website suggests that Resident Evil 6 may be coming to current-gen consoles.
A search on the US game ratings board’s website shows that one of its latest rating decisions is an M forResident Evil 6 on ‘Xbox Series’.
Resident Evil6 was originally released onXbox 360andPS3in October 2012, blending “action and survival horror” to deliver whatCapcomcalled “an epic and dramatic horror experience”.
The game was then ported toXbox OneandPS4in March 2016, alongside ports ofResident Evil 4and 5, with graphical enhancements and all previous add-on DLC included.
Capcom then brought Resident Evil 5 and 6 to theSwitchin 2019, again offering all previously released DLC.
The rating of a new version suggests Capcom may be about to re-release a new current gen version of Resident Evil 6, perhaps with further graphical enhancements to take advantage of the current hardware’s extra power.
The fact the game has already been rated also makes it all but certain it will be a remaster, rather than the full remakeResident Evil 2, 3 and 4 received in recent years.
What isn’t yet clear is whether a port of Resident Evil 5 – which was also released on Xbox One and PS4 in 2016, followed by Switch in 2019 – will be joining Resident Evil 6 and also be getting the current-gen remaster treatment.
Given that the ESRB doesn’t yet have a rating for aPS5version of Resident Evil 6 at the time of writing, however – and given that anXbox Series X/Srelease will almost certainly be accompanied by a PS5 one – it appears that the board is still in the process of rating whatever it is Capcom has submitted.
