Red Dead Redemption 2 Current-Gen (+GTAIV, but unlikely) - Possible current gen ports?

[videotechuk_]

UPDATE 04/06/2025

Looks like it's RDR2!

 

 

 

 

Over the past week, we've seen a series of rumours and discussions about Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption 2 being ported to newer systems. To avoid confusion, I'll cover every story that's surfaced

 

Grand Theft Auto IV:

Known insider and dataminer Tez2 revealed that Rockstar are currently developing a new Grand Theft Auto IV port, platforms details are unknown but Tez2 made it clear it's not a remaster and is similar to the 2023 Red Dead Redemption 1 port for PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

 

 

Red Dead Redemption 2: 

Two gaming sites, fairly big ones have claimed that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series consoles. This news comes after Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said the company will support the Nintendo ecosystem in a big way in a recent interview with The Game Business. 

 

Source(s):

 

Exclusive: Red Dead Redemption 2 for Nintendo Switch 2 may arrive this year

 

EXCLUSIVA: Red Dead Redemption 2 llegará a Nintendo Switch 2 y apunta a este añ

 

 

Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar - where do they come in? 

You probably know I often cover Take-Two Interactive on Twitter, so I do keep eyes out all the time on their reports but something interesting has come up regarding these two rumoured releases.

 

In Fiscal 2027 and 2028 (Fiscal Year 2027 begins in April 2026), the company plans to release four new ports (under New Iterations of Previously Released Titles). In this current Fiscal Year (2026), which started in April 2025, Take-Two expects to ship four new ports/remasters. So far the company has announced:

• Borderlands 4 for Switch 2
• Civilization VII for Switch 2 
• Civilization VII for VR
• The last spot - to be announced by Take-Two

 

Take-Two has one more port/remaster to announce for this fiscal year. We're not going to see both Red Dead Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV release within this Fiscal Year, it could be a plethora of things - another Take-Two IP, GTAIV, RDR2, etc. But considering these rumors have come to light recently, it's worth keeping eyes this year, especially on rating boards!

Edited June 4 by videotechuk_

[Mr. Bump 2.0]

Honestly I would be content with just a well optimized port, I still enjoy GTA 4 stylistically and I like preserving the original experience as closely as possible. Whatever makes it more accessible and running well is fine by me, though I know the price will probably be ridiculous like the RDR1 port. Super wishful thinking but if any of those optimizations found their way into a PC update, that would be so awesome. I appreciate every modder's efforts to make the game run better, but if it can just be handled officially and get it running as good as RDR1 did for me, I would love it. Though if others wants a complete remaster to make everything more modern, more power to them. If this does materialize I am curious what will happen.

[ComputerBlue]

I hope they keep the majority of the music. Otherwise I don’t care if they change much as long as it runs at 60 FPS and the resolution is bumped. I have very little complaints about the game otherwise. I don’t need any major graphic overhauls or anything, I guess maybe if they could increase the draw distance, that would be good. Improve things like pop-ins etc. But in terms of gameplay, I hope very little has changed.

[Malolaat]

Either it will be a 4k60 port without any changes, or another 4k60 port with minor fixes
I honestly would rather expect the same approach as RDR1, although I can't wait to play GTA4 on PS5 and platinum it, the PC version still needs fixes to this day imo

[Kalashnikov1947]

I'm curious if they're gonna bring back the 6-axis feature from the PS3 version and adapt it to Switch and PS4's motion controls.

Edited May 16 by Kalashnikov1947

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

I would love to play this on my PS5.  Hopefully it will happen.

[Silver]

I'm fine with the game being released on newer consoles and perhaps receiving a better PC port. If they fix the high fps-related glitches like cutscenes being really zoomed in, the final mission being impossible to complete, or bikes becoming extremely slippery, it'd already improve the experience. Remastering the game by giving it a fresh coat of paint would certainly be great (if they don't completely change the visual style of the game that is), but beyond that, I don't know if there's much else to be excited about.

 

A new version of the game would still be incomplete since the radios have already been gutted, and I highly doubt they would go out of their way to restore them all (especially Vladivostok FM) for a new release. So modding it would already be a requirement if you care about keeping the original vibe of the game intact.

 

As of now, PC players have access to FusionFix, Radio Restoration, Various Fixes among other mods that fix all of the issues listed above and restore all of the radio stations (and more!) which already improve the overall experience greatly, and it's free.

A faithful remaster/port sounds great, but will they fix all the things the community has found and fixed already? Or will this potential release still require to be modded in order to truly be the best version of the game?

[Bizz913]

Hell Yeah ABOUT DAMN TIME and Fixed pc port next year hehehe!!!

[JohnMcLoviin]

47 minutes ago, Malolaat said:

Either it will be a 4k60 port without any changes, or another 4k60 port with minor fixes
I honestly would rather expect the same approach as RDR1, although I can't wait to play GTA4 on PS5 and platinum it, the PC version still needs fixes to this day imo

Besides making the 60fps XSX version also run native 4k,  the only fix they need to do is to bring back the songs they removed due to expired licenses.  Vladivostok FM is mostly crap after almost all OG songs were replaced.

[DMMacdonald]

Just simplify it - port it or if they're remastering it, fine tuning it a touch with the graphics. Don't make an arse of it again by giving it to a third party company like they did with III, San Andreas and Vice City and I'm happy. Would be buzzing for this if they put IV out on PS5.

[Jason]

As I think many of us said when the RDR1 port was rumoured and released, an IV port of some kind is inevitable. The only modern console you can play it on locally is Xbox, which is the same situation RDR1 was in. So they will want to fix that at some point. Max Payne 3 is in a similar situation as well IIRC, but that's a much smaller franchise from R*'s perspective.

 

The only question for me is if it'll just be a straight port or if they'll touch it up in any way. With it being a GTA game I am sorta expecting them to touch it up and sell it as a new release completely, even on PC.

[lilcino]

2 hours ago, Malolaat said:

Either it will be a 4k60 port without any changes, or another 4k60 port with minor fixes
I honestly would rather expect the same approach as RDR1, although I can't wait to play GTA4 on PS5 and platinum it, the PC version still needs fixes to this day imo

RDR1 on ps4 had FSR3 implementation IIRC (which is quite a lot of work btw) - Gta IV had plenty of aliasing and jagged edges so I hope they go for it aswell.

[NightmanCometh96]

I know I'm a broken record about this by now, but it would be quite pathetic (albeit, on-brand for R*/T2, so I'm lowkey expecting it) if a potential remaster from D11 skips Xbox and PC this time around; RDR1 still has the UN headless zombie glitch and remains stuck at 30FPS on Xbox consoles (with 4K being supported only because of Microsoft's BC program, which has long since halted development). Like @Silver mentioned, the PC version of GTA IV really needs FusionFix, DXVK/Proton, VariousFixes, etc. to function properly on modern hardware. Having a better PC port that has some official implementations of such fixes would be welcome.

 

Not that it's the highest priority of things to address, but I'd love to see the extended songs from the PS3 version make a comeback; it's such an interesting, but often overlooked difference from the 360/PC versions. HDR support a la RDR1 PC would be great, too.

 

EDIT: If this is legit, hopefully we see it this year. It would soften the blow of the GTA VI delay (not that trailer 2 and the batch of screenshots didn't already help there, but the game is still at least one year away. )

EDIT 2: I wonder if Switch 2 will natively be supported; I doubt it will, but I imagine it would make 60FPS (and higher resolutions while docked) viable.

Edited May 12 by NightmanCometh96

[Lexiture]

If it gets native ps5 version with Dualsense Support I'll buy it day one. Not much to ask

[Tommy "Nightmare" Smith]

I hope this turns out to be true, and properly done also. 

I loved and still love IV to this day, at a point that I wouldn't mind if they postponed VI to make room for IV considering all the hype there's on the series now. 

 

Dualsense support would be really cool! 

[Spoofaman]

I’m so curious if they decide to keep the swing glitch or 'fix' it

[TheEmptyProd.]

Ok. It's high time.

Edited May 12 by TheEmptyProd.

[propanecocaine71]

IV is still my favorite gta, I'd love to play through it on my ps5 before VI. 

[Silver]

GSG used the mobile version of each game as a base for the Definitive Editions, right?

 

What if they end up using the broken PC port as a base for a remaster/port?

[propanecocaine71]

2 minutes ago, Silver said:

GSG used the mobile version of each game as a base for the Definitive Editions, right?

 

What if they end up using the broken PC port as a base for a remaster/port?

Hopefully that doesn't happen. Double eleven used the 360 version of rdr1 as a base for the port right ? Hopefully that remains for gta IV as well. 

[TheEmptyProd.]

3 minutes ago, Silver said:

GSG used the mobile version of each game as a base for the Definitive Editions, right?

 

What if they end up using the broken PC port as a base for a remaster/port?

But they are probably can fix it because they will have a source code

[Watain]

As long as they don't botch it like with the GTA Trilogy I'll buy it again... and go for the platinum, again.

 

Edit: I really, really want this to happen!

Edited May 12 by Watain

[iwtdl]

8 minutes ago, propanecocaine71 said:

Hopefully that doesn't happen. Double eleven used the 360 version of rdr1 as a base for the port right ? Hopefully that remains for gta IV as well. 

They did a fantastic job with porting RDR1 to PC so here's hoping Rockstar gets them on board with GTA IV.

Maybe they can also fix the current PC version too but that's highly unlikely.

[Silver]

1 minute ago, TheEmptyProd. said:

But they are probably can fix it because they will have a source code

Hopefully yeah. I mean, they did a great job with RDR1 on PC even though it's mostly the same game (bugs and all from what I've read).

 

If they are indeed planning on releasing a new version of the game, I just hope that they'll fix most if not all the things that the FusionFix team has already fixed and improved. If they merely update the game to make it work on new consoles and allow 60fps, it'd be great for console users at the very least, but for PC players we might as well just keep playing the PC version with FusionFix, VariousFixes etc.

[PolandMountain]

I hope for something with actual effort put in

Edited May 12 by PolandMountain

[Malolaat]

I expect:
- 4k60
- restored grass and trees quality from PS3 (because we know it was better quality)
- slightly upgraded textures
- fully fixed edge quality and anti-aliasing in general
- more language options (we got this with RDR1 so I would say its 100% coming)

 If any of you expect multiplayer you will be disappointed

 

[TheOriginalGunslinger]

1 hour ago, Spoofaman said:

I’m so curious if they decide to keep the swing glitch or 'fix' it

There’s no way they’ll take that out. That’ll be f*cking tragic lol

[BD Baumler]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

As I think many of us said when the RDR1 port was rumoured and released, an IV port of some kind is inevitable. The only modern console you can play it on locally is Xbox, which is the same situation RDR1 was in. So they will want to fix that at some point. Max Payne 3 is in a similar situation as well IIRC, but that's a much smaller franchise from R*'s perspective.

 

The only question for me is if it'll just be a straight port or if they'll touch it up in any way. With it being a GTA game I am sorta expecting them to touch it up and sell it as a new release completely, even on PC.

personally i was hoping they'd give Remedy a shot at remastering it after the remakes

[TheOriginalGunslinger]

1 hour ago, propanecocaine71 said:

IV is still my favorite gta, I'd love to play through it on my ps5 before VI. 

[NeonCl]

2 hours ago, Lexiture said:

If it gets native ps5 version with Dualsense Support I'll buy it day one. Not much to ask

Plus 60 FPS as well.