Resident Evil 3 gameplay revealed ahead of Switch 2 launch
Capcom has shown Resident Evil 3 running on Nintendo Switch 2 before its 16 October release, with Jill Valentine facing Nemesis in Raccoon City.
Resident Evil 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on 16 October, and Capcom has shown fresh gameplay footage ahead of the port’s launch. The footage gives Switch 2 owners a look at Jill Valentine’s escape through Raccoon City, including another confrontation with Nemesis. 1
What the footage shows
The Switch 2 version is a native release rather than the cloud version that arrived on the original Switch. That means players will not need a persistent connection to stream the game once it has been downloaded. Capcom is also bringing Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 to Switch 2 on the same date, with previously released downloadable content included according to the report. 1
Capcom’s official Steam listing identifies Jill as one of the last people left in Raccoon City after Umbrella’s experiments, with Nemesis deployed to hunt her down. The listing confirms the game’s core setting and its Capcom authorship, while the newly shown footage focuses on the same survival-horror escape. 2
Digital editions are due first. Physical versions are expected in January, although Capcom has not published full details of the physical format in the sources available for this report. The Switch 2 release therefore gives Nintendo players a native way to revisit the 2020 remake without relying on the older platform’s cloud streaming model.
Our opinion
This is the sort of port that makes sense for Switch 2: Resident Evil 3 is already a known quantity, but a native handheld version removes the biggest compromise from the original Switch release. The footage does not suggest a radically different game, and that is fine. The useful news is that Jill’s trip through Raccoon City should now be portable without asking players to trust their broadband connection.
The release also strengthens Switch 2’s position as a home for Capcom’s recent Resident Evil games. Whether the image quality and performance hold up in the finished version will need hands-on testing, but the footage suggests Capcom is aiming for a straightforward native conversion rather than a cut-down cloud edition.