Interacting with an inquiring fan on Twitter, Capcom's Resident Evil community manager confirmed that nothing has changed on the Nintendo Switch front.
No plans on that, no.
— Kat (@ImKatastrophe) February 20, 2019
As you can see, it's looking unlikely the remake of the classic 1998 survival-horror game will ever come to the Nintendo system, and you'd assume this has to come down to the hardware limitations of the console.
There's certainly not a lack of demand, and Resident Evil 2 released to not only critical-acclaim, but it seems to have sold quite well too. In other words, I'd imagine if a Nintendo Switch port was on the table, Capcom would jump all over it.
That said, while Resident Evil 2 is certainly a system taxer in certain regards, I'd assume it could run on the Switch with some graphical downgrades and a few other tweaks. But maybe not, after all, there's no proof the RE engine, which the game runs on, plays nicely with the Switch.
Resident Evil 7 -- which was built on the same engine -- did notably come to the Nintendo Switch last year in Japan, but only in a streaming version made possible via the cloud. It's possible Capcom could do something like this for Resident Evil 2, but if the game didn't sell super well in Japan, it's probably not worth the effort.
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