Netflix brings "Red Dead Redemption" to mobile
The Wild West action game "Red Dead Redemption" is coming to modern consoles – and smartphones. Netflix users can play without additional costs.
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Rockstar Games has announced a series of ports of its cowboy classic “Red Dead Redemption.” The title, released in 2010 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, is set to be released on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Switch 2, and mobile devices—both Android and iOS—starting December 2nd.
On Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, “Red Dead Redemption” will be playable at 60 frames per second with improved image quality, Rockstar Games promises. HDR and “resolutions up to 4K” will also be supported. On the Switch 2, you will also be able to play at 60 fps thanks to DLSS upscaling.
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The update to the new version of “Red Dead Redemption” is free for many players: those who already have the open-world game in their Playstation, Xbox, or Nintendo library will receive the new version for free. “Red Dead Redemption” was already playable on current consoles but will be adapted with the update to better utilize the hardware of the current generation.
Netflix users play for free
On the other hand, “Red Dead Redemption” is entirely new on mobile. Rockstar does not reveal in the announcement how smoothly and in what resolution the Cowboy Classic will run on iOS and Android devices. Only an adapted control scheme for mobile devices is mentioned.
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In addition, the mobile version of “Red Dead Redemption” is to become part of the Netflix subscription. All subscribers have access to some games on their mobile phones that are included in the subscription. “Red Dead Redemption” will be added on December 2nd. This is also a coup for Netflix—the games offered by the streaming service have recently lost several well-known titles.
The work done on the PC version of “Red Dead Redemption” likely helped with the porting to current consoles, which the studio Double Eleven put into the PC version on behalf of Rockstar Games. This PC port was released last October and supports many of the features now being advertised for the console versions.
The successor “Red Dead Redemption 2” has not yet been adapted for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Switch 2. Therefore, the version released in 2018 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 continues to run on current consoles.
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