That Resident Evil: Requiem Nintendo Switch 2 Trailer Shows Just How Scalable It Will Be on PC

Resident Evil: Requiem is conscionable a mates of weeks away, and portion the archetypal fewer trailers decidedly made it look similar a beautiful game, the Switch 2 trailer that debuted earlier this week, well, didn't. But, the mode I spot it, that's excellent news, particularly for anyone connected a fund gaming PC.

Ever since the RE Engine came to prominence starting with Resident Evil: Biohazard, Capcom has been impressing maine with conscionable however bully it tin marque games look, without making them excessively demanding. Now, obviously, I haven't had the accidental to trial Resident Evil: Requiem show yet myself, but conscionable looking astatine some the strategy requirements and the Switch 2 trailer, it seems similar Capcom is continuing this trend.

Capcom hasn't revealed what solution and settings either of these spec sheets are targeting, but adjacent if that recommended physique is conscionable for 1080p Ultra astatine 60 fps, the Nvidia RTX 2060 Super and Radeon RX 6600 are precise attainable graphics cards. That's not to notation lone requiring a Core i7-8700 oregon Ryzen 5 5500 and 16GB of RAM, which is simply a precise debased barroom to clear.

What Kind of Performance Can I Expect?

Again, due to the fact that Capcom hasn't revealed immoderate circumstantial settings that the strategy requirements are targeting, I can't accidental for sure, but from my clip investigating Resident Evil Village for TechRadar erstwhile it came out, I was capable to get astir 60 fps astatine 4K with an RTX 3060 – and the 3060 is precise overmuch not a 4K graphics card.

However, it's important to enactment that the requirements for Requiem are a spot heavier than they were for Village. The biggest quality is that alternatively of asking for a Radeon RX 5700 oregon a GTX 1070 for Village, Requiem is asking for an RTX 2060 Super oregon a Radeon RX 6600. And portion the show spread betwixt these graphics cards isn't immense connected its own, the cardinal quality is that Requiem is recommending a ray tracing-capable GPU – Village didn't.

That makes a batch of sense, fixed the ocular prime of immoderate of the trailers that person travel retired for the game, but it whitethorn permission immoderate folks with older GPUs retired successful the cold. It's precise apt that with an older non-RT GPU, the crippled volition look a batch similar the Nintendo Switch 2 footage. The agleam broadside here, though, is that the GTX 1660 and Radeon RX 5500 XT sneak successful the minimum specs, truthful you'll inactive beryllium capable to play the game, it conscionable mightiness not look excessively great.

The Nintendo Switch 2 Equivalent

It's important to item that the Nintendo Switch 2 is capable to tally Resident Evil: Requiem, adjacent if it wouldn't quite conscionable the strategy requirements if it were a PC. The Tegra T239 SoC successful the handheld is astir the equivalent of a mobile RTX 3050 – which is weaker than the desktop-class GTX 1660 Capcom is requiring. I wouldn't get excessively caught up successful this detail, though.

Primarily, that's due to the fact that the Nintendo Switch 2 is simply a console and each azygous portion volition beryllium moving the nonstop aforesaid hardware. That means erstwhile Capcom was porting Resident Evil: Requiem implicit to the Switch 2, it was capable to fine-tune the physique to the nonstop hardware, apt uncovering optimizations that wouldn't beryllium determination for the PC version.

Still, conscionable going by the Switch 2 trailer earlier this week, it does look similar Capcom conscionable hardly managed to compression the crippled onto the handheld. But adjacent if it is rough, I'm looking guardant to seeing conscionable however good it runs connected the Nintendo console.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra