After months of speculation, the Red Dead Redemption remaster/remake saga hit a damp squelch of an anticlimax yesterday afternoon, when Rockstar proudly announced it was porting the basic version of the original PS3 and Xbox 360 game to the Nintendo Switch and PS4. For $50, no less. Fans were upset.
“C’mon Arthur we only need to sell one more copy of Red Dead Redemption for switch at 50$ and tomorrow will be eating mangoes” pic.twitter.com/QfEhWA1NDxAugust 7, 2023
Fans continue to be upset, actually. Red Dead community hubs have gone into full-on mutiny mode, trading memes that excoriate and mock Rockstar’s decision-making and encouraging one another to boycott the port entirely.
“Do not buy Red Dead Redemption,” reads the title of a much-upvoted and awarded thread in the subreddit all about Red Dead Redemption. Its author, dtv20, explains their reasoning thusly: “It’s a $50 port of a 13 year old game” with “no graphical enhancements. No FPS enhancements” and “no…