UPDATE 28/09/2023. The listing has been removed, suggesting it was in error. Ben @videotechx who covers all things Rockstar has said the new rating was meant to be for the recent Red Dead Redemption port.

ORIGINAL STORY: 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2 has been rated on a Brazilian ratings board for the Nintendo Switch, hinting that the epic western might be getting released for the console . It really does look like Rockstar with do everything with Red Dead except put it on PC or update Red Dead Redemption 2 for current-gen consoles.

X (Twitter) user @necrolipe spotted the listing which seems to clearly display a Nintendo Switch version of Red Dead Redemption beside the PlayStation 4 and Xbox versions. The page can be viewed here.

Red Dead Redemption 2 recebe classificação indicativa para o Nintendo Switch no Brasil pic.twitter.com/4sKKPVYV9S

— 'Necro' Felipe #UnivNintendo (@necrolipe) September 25, 2023

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Checking the analysis document shows that the rating board originally rated the PlayStation and Xbox versions of the game with no mention of a Switch release. This indicates that the rating for the Nintendo Switch was added at a later date, but I can’t find any way to confirm when the listing was amended. It could have been yesterday, it could have been a year ago.

A few things are going against the idea of Red Dead Redemption 2 on Switch, however. The first is that it’s odd that Rockstar and Take-Two would publish RDR2 before bringing Grand Theft Auto to Nintendo’s console. As big and successful as RDR2 is, the GTA games are far more popular and could generate Rockstar and Take-Two heaps of cash. The second is that Red Dead Redemption 2 is a massive and technically demanding game that would seemingly eclipse what the Switch is capable of. Hell, it wouldn’t even fit on a cartridge.

Of course, it’s possible it would be a streaming game only, something we’ve seen other developers and publishers do to bypass the technical limitations of the Switch.

If you really want to take a trip down speculation avenue, perhaps it’s actually a rating for a Nintendo Switch 2 version of RDR2? Probably not. But we can dream, right?

Let’s not forget, either, that Red Dead Redemption recently got a re-release for PlayStation and Switch, finally bringing the series to Nintendo’s hardware while PC games could only weep into saddles in despair, assaulted by the knowledge that Rockstar doesn’t love them. It was a fairly disappointing re-release with barely any upgrades, but at least it meant a bunch of new people could experience the life of a cowboy, so perhaps it does make at least some sense for Rockstar to bring the sequel/prequel to the Switch. Even if the Switch would presumably combust as soon as the Red Dead Redemption 2 flashes up on screen.