Free Demos For Resident Evil 5 And 6 Appear On Nintendo Switch, Full Game File Sizes Revealed

18.7gb for RE5? It's 16.9gb on PS4....

Oh nice, I wasn't expecting demos.

Might give them a try at some point.

Re6 for me. I played enough of 5 in one life time. 6 is good for couch Co op

The only scary thing about these games is the QTEs, and in particular, that one where Chris punches the boulder.

I guess doesn't hurt to grab the demos....

I’m too chicken to buy and finish an RE game, but I’ll scare myself with a free demo.

Sure doesn't hurt at all.

@HobbitGamer what you need is a cheat code for infinite ammo and health. go PC version and activate you will face them knowing you can't die and that's how your mind will become stronger and you will eat them even for breakfast or even at night time when you start playing these typ of games. These games doesn't do anything for me anymore. You just have to pass the fear and know it's just a game. Learn to let it go and voila you're good to go

@nessisonett that boulder scene is honestly one of my favorite gaming memories.

It was just so silly and over the top that I couldn't help but break down laughing. I was playing co-op with a friend the first time I saw it and we ended up dying because I was on the floor, writhing in laughter unable to breathe.

Good times.

Haven’t played either of these so will def grab the demos. Price seems right but it will be great to fans the game for a test run prior to purchasing. I really wish all games had demoes.

This is a hard purchase to justify if you have an PS or Xbox. You can pick RE 4, 5, and 6 for $10 a piece on PS4 (on sale often).

@Olliemar28 THat's my tale on Resident Evil 5, Great Co-op action game but falls flat as a Resident Evil title.
6 on the other hand feels like a bunch of demos from the 2000's of unfinished games slapped together.

@HobbitGamer Both of these RE games is more like action games, and not horror. Great games.

already pre-ordered the triple pack for the switch.

@StinkyHat The Switch logo on boot drains 2.GB extra in SVS format...lol

And no Downloads of either 5 or 6 should be complete game for Physical version.

Eh, I completed 5 once... No more will I suffer that. Did all scenarios with 6 twice, at least they seemed to be taking it a bit more seriously and threw back to Resi 4, Sherry's campaign was also cool, with the big tyrant type after you. Might have to get it again, but on sale.

Good thing I just bought that 1TB microSD card...

Will give the demos a try. I got Resi 4 on Switch and I struggle to play it. Dual Anologue is sh&te compared to Wii Remote controls (IMO). I think a patch to add in Giro Aiming would do wonders

I actually think I got a better deal through my Wal Mart physical pre order at 49.99 USD. And 4 is on the cartridge.

@Gerald the gyro in the revelation games is pretty good but is restricted to JoyCons, unless I’m doing something wrong. For these and resi4 I’d like the option for procontroller gyro like Doom, Wolf2 and Splatoon2 as well as pointer controls like Wii. It’s a deal breaker for me too.

I'm buying Resident Evil 5 because it was better than Resident Evil 6.

I'll probably end up buying both. I just wish they were.. y'know.. physical.

@Alucard83 I don't have a PC for games, and I wouldn't want a cheat code to take away the atmosphere. I play horror games, I'm just very tense when I do. But thanks for the suggestions, I guess(?)

Can anyone answer me if the Triple pack works on a PAL Switch? (Triple pack is only released in North America)

I'm curious as to why so many people still give RE5 and 6 flak for not being 'real' Resident Evil games. In fact, it seems like this is a trend for a lot of horror series where some of the games were shooters instead of survival oriented. I can't think of any other genre or series where people complained it changed direction (the obvious example being Breath of the Wild, which is a completely different kind of game compared to the rest of the series yet received unanimous praise). Is it simply because there aren't that many survival horror games compared to other genres and shooters are already overrepresented, so when a game that could've hypothetically been survival horror ended up being a shooter, it's disappointing?

RE5 is one of the kings in Co-Op games. RE6 is Good, bad, and okay at the same time. Ask anyone about RE6 and you'll get a different response everytime.

One thing for sure though: Neither of these games are horror games - Something I think anyone familiar with these two games knows I'm sure.

6 is better than 5, at least 6 had good gameplay and decent AI.

5 is terrible stop to aim and sheva is probably the worst character in the series and also one of the worst AI too

@Bizzyb Did you pay full price? I want a 1TB card, but I'm waiting for Black Friday.

@Ninja84 Yes, the Switch is not region-locked. However, since 5 and 6 are digital only, you need to either create a US sub/throwaway account and pay for the nintendo online membership to be able to go to eshop and download those, or change your main PAL account to US, then change back. (I heard that any funds in your account will disappear if you switch to another country?)

@HADAA
Thank you! I think i will Switch country because i’m already paying for Nintendo online membership. I never have funds on my Account so no problem😉

I think RE 1, 2, 4, and 7 are the only ones really worth playing.

@JayJ Eh? No love for either Revelations or either Chronicles? Sure they're different, but it's in a good way IMO.

Except it’s not available...

@nintendoknife Dead Space also shifted genres to action and was all the worse for it. Like Capcam, EA wanted to turn their survival horror franchise in to an action blockbuster. But unlike RE, DS didn't have the brand recognition, and the shift killed the franchise.

Other games that shifted gameplay and received backlash include: Halo, Xcom, Fallout, Red Faction, Silent Hill, and probably a ton of others I'm forgetting. All finding varying levels of success and failure.

Resident Evil's change was disappointing because they ended up being worse experiences. RE4 was a big change but is universally loved also. It's when you get to RE5 and 6 that the hate starts to win.

It's even worse when the change to franchises like RE and DS were explained as necessary, because horror games didn't sell well. Then you look at the thriving indie horror scene of this gen, and the success of RE7 and RE2 remake, and it proves that it was all BS.

@StinkyHat Well reduce the file size, Ed, if you give us your jacket.

Re6 gets way more crap than it deserves. The Leon campaign feels very much in line with RE 4 and it's still got that horror vibe. Now 5 is definitely worthy of the hate. Most of the areas are in the daylight which seems really out of place for RE as well as the overall generic ation game feel. Only good thing about that game is maybe wesker.

I did love the new direction they went with RE7 but i kinda still wish it wasn't completely first person. Never loved that Genre. Something about not actually seeing your character just bothers me. It's like you're playing as a floating gun with no personality.

@HADAA @Ninja84 you dont need a nintendo switch online membership to go to the eshop...

I wonder what's in the demo? The first level?
What's the price £30 each?

I like RE 6 especially the Leon campaign. RE 5 did not do much for me. RE 4 is a true classic lost of action and really creepy.

@Richnj Good points, although your last remark is not necessarily correct. It's perfectly possible that if RE4/5/6 had been survival horror, they wouldn't have sold well if at all, and the series could have died. In fact, I would say one of the main reasons for the large amount of survival horror games being released the past couple of years lies precisely in the fact that survival horror had been out of the picture for long enough to make it feel fresh again. Consider an alternate universe in which Resident Evil is the brand name for a collection of bell-bottom trousers, that at some point became a regular jeans collection. It's hard to imagine the alternate universe Resident Evils would have sold well if they always stayed bell-bottoms.

@link3710 Not really, I was never a fan of any of the spin-offs. I think the series only really stood out for those few games, everything else is just sort of there for the big fans of zombie shooter horror games.

Resident 6 can cause heavy drinking to you or a friend playing the game. The only good thing about this game is the combat because the rest of Resident Evil 6 is a giant mess.

@nessisonett That implies Resident Evil is supposed to be scary.

Did anyone else notice that characters in re5 seem to cast shadows only on the ground, not the walls or other objects? Was it the same on pc? Been so long since I've played it that I honestly can't remember.

And no gyro aiming is a deadly sin.

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Just hope all this stuff is to pay for a new Resident Evil on Switch.

These games are "good" for coop, otherwise... Meh. Specially RE6.

Speaking of technical details, both are based on the PS4/Xbox One remasters and, excluding shadow resolution (while motion blur is strangely absent during gameplay), the graphics are the same on all remastered versions.

But performance is really concerning, both games run on unlocked framerates and all of them can go wild on many situations, especially RE6. That is really strange to be honest, as sometimes it can run lower than the last-gen versions. Well RE5 also had performance issues on PS4/Xbox One, but RE6 was an almost completely stable 60FPS. It looks a bit unlikely at this point, but I hope they solve those performance issues when the game launches.

At least both are looking slick on portable mode

I would have been all over this if Capcom had issued a proper premium triple pack with all three games on a 64GB cartridge.

I would have loved to build a collection of Resident Evil games as I have missed out on most of them over the years, but Capcom is making them super easy to skip.

I rarely play through demos but I'm so happy they have demos for some games.

Im down to buy most the RE games... at 7.99 like they often sell for on PS4. Don't mind waiting.

@StableInvadeel yah, it is cool to see them in demo format. I'd like to try RE4 though. I wish that were a demo...

I dont even see the preorder pages for them on the eshop (US) so how am I supposed to download their demos?

@HADAA where did you get your info from? You do NOT need Nintendo online to buy / redeem eshop titles.

@nintendoknife because Resident Evil games are survival horror games and these two are just straight up third person shooters. If they'd have been spinoffs then fair enough but these were mainline entries. 5 is actually a good game overall but focusing on Chris seemed odd given that by this point he was just the character few played as in the original game, whilst 6 was just a mess as they tried to appease both sides. Thankfully Capcom have realised the error of their ways and gone back to the series roots with Resident Evil 7 and the fantastic remake of 2 both of which are far superior horror experiences to these two

RE4 is 33% off at the moment. When it is 70% off I'll bite.

I'm interested in 5, and no interest in quick time event 6. That's of course if Capcom cares to optimize the game good.

No motion controls? No buy...

Why can't capcom just add the revelations motion controls?

@nintendoknife fashion is an entirely different beast. It goes in cycles and always has. Things like action games and FPS have always been big hitters.

There's also more to this story. RE4 was designed to be a shift in the series because Capcom was disappointed by the sales of REmake and RE0 in game cube. Game cube of course sold poorly, and thus the REmake struggled and sold poorly too (but not as bad as you'd think, 1.35m). What most people don't realise is that RE4 also didn't sell bucket loads on GC either (1.6m). It sold a little more than REmake did. Even when ported to other consoles like the PS2 and Wii, it only sold 2 million per platform. RE4 didn't sell mega numbers. It sold around 8 million over the course of 15 years, 3 gens and 9+ platforms. RE5 did that on just the PS3 and 360. Dead Space 1 sold 2 million in 2008 and DS2 sold 4 million in 2011. The horror RE games that sold around 4 million include RE2, RE7, and RE2 remake. The actual market for horror games, stays at around 2 million units and 4 million for quality ones. That market stayed there from all the way back at RE2(1998) , through REmake(2002), RE4(2004), DS 1(2008) and 2(2011) and all the way up to current horror titles.

There was never a waning of sales for horror games. Just a lack of interest from publishers to make them, since they deemed 4 million copies to not be enough. Especially given the huge amounts of cash and resources they were pouring in to making these games. EA has openly admitted this.

The reason for the explosion in horror this gen?, Outlast. Games like RE5 and 6 may have sold 7 million copies, but the budget for RE6 was so bloated and costly that even that game disappointed capcom. But a game like Outlast?, it sold just as much but on a budget of $1.5m. Suddenly publishers understood. It wasn't about chasing bigger sales, it was about lowering your costs to match your expected sales. And the outlast Devs had delivered a blueprint on big sales horror.

So no surprises when RE7 turns out to be a lower budget, first person horror experience.

For anyone dreading the reports on the issues concerning RE5 and 6, there's some news: apparently there's going to be a day one patch for both games. (Confirmed when I saw RE5's data and a 74 MB Update data located in the data.) Hopefully it'll solve the framerate problems.