Capcom: Resident Evil Village might come to Xbox One and PS4, but ‘can’t make any promises’

What was originally billed as next-generation horror could come to current consoles.

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Capcom’s mainResident Evil Villagepresentation isbeing heldon September 27 but in the meantime, we’ve been given an interesting bit of news: Capcom is considering bringing Resident Evil Village to Xbox One and PS4, though the team did note that they “can’t make any promises.” The game was originally billed as only being available for the next generation of consoles, coming toXbox Series X,Xbox Series S, PC andPS5.

This news, as well as some very brief clips of gameplay, were shown in a special Capcom presentation for Tokyo Game Show 2020, which you can check out below.

During the quick gameplay presentation, the developers noted that Resident Evil Village is being designed with more freedom than Resident Evil 7: Biohazard provided.

Providing the game on current-generation platforms would open it up to a much wider audience, resulting in more copies sold. The possible downside is that the game might suffer in design from having to run on far weaker systems. We’ll have to see what decision Capcom makes, especially since the Resident Evil franchise has crossed100 million copies soldas of June 2020.

Resident Evil Village is set to release at some point in 2021.

A swamp of horror

In this first-person entry in the Resident Evil series, you play as Ethan Winters, who is looking for his missing wife. His journeys bring him to the Baker mansion, where he must fight off a whole host of horrors.

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Samuel Tolbert is a freelance writer covering gaming news, previews, reviews, interviews and different aspects of the gaming industry, specifically focusing on Xbox and PC gaming on Windows Central. You can find him on Twitter@SamuelTolbert.