Resident Evil Village ended up being a cross-generational game, and as I told you in my technical analysis, this it didn’t do him any good. With the announcement of Resident Evil 4 Remake, everything indicated that its launch will be limited to next-gen consoles and PC, that is, it will not reach the “old generation”, but finally Capcom gave us “disgust-joy” We confirm that the said game will also be released on PS4. Yes, the Xbox One is out and won’t be getting said title.

The first question we must ask ourselves is why Capcom decided to adapt Resident Evil 4 Remake on PS4 and the answer is very simple, because the mentioned console has a huge market share (more than 111 million units) and this represents a very juicy cake in terms of potential sales. Everything is ultimately a question of profitability, Resident Evil 4 Remake is one of the most important releases of the Japanese company and it wants to sell as many units as possible.

I know what you’re thinking and then why is Xbox One left out? It is a good question and the answer is not as simple as in the previous case. On the one hand, we must be clear that said console is less powerful than the PS4, which would complicate development and mean more sacrifices in the game’s foundation on a technical level. On the other hand, we have to remember that the market share of the said console is much lower than that of the PS4, so it is not as “palatable” for Capcom.

Why is it bad news that Resident Evil 4 Remake is coming to PS4?

I’m sure those with a PS4 will be jumping for joy to be able to play Resident Evil 4 Remake on their console. I understand perfectly and I share your joy but ultimately you have to understand that it also has a clear negative connotation and still does another example of everything that is wrong in the video game industry.

The PS4 will soon be on the market for nine years, it is a console that has long been exhausted on a hardware level and that has held back the development of video games for years on the technical side. Resident Evil Village is a clear example of what this means the burden of developing the game while maintaining support for the old generationwith extremely small, linear and extremely small maps, low quality of much of the geometry, poor quality of many textures, and ray tracing that contributes virtually nothing.

That Resident Evil 4 Remake is coming to PS4 means that we’ll see again the ballast that did so much damage to Resident Evil Villageand honestly it’s a shame. The RE Engine, the graphics engine used in both games, is highly scalable, but ultimately its capabilities depend on the starting point, that common base at the hardware level that you must establish as a common denominator. If this base is a console with 8 GB of unified memory, a Jaguar 1.6 GHz CPU and a level GPU Radeon HD 7850 from 2012 I think the problem is obvious.

When the time comes I will get Resident Evil 4 Remake for PC and I will share with you another technical analysis, where I will tell you the good and bad sides of the said game. Personally, I expect something similar to what we saw in Resident Evil Village, at least on a technical level, that is. Resident Evil 4 Remake will launch on March 24, 2023 and will be released on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series SX and PC.