New ESRB rating suggests a classic Resident Evil is getting an Xbox Series and PS5 re-release

A new rating on the ESRB website suggests that Resident Evil 6 may be coming to current-gen consoles.

A search on the US game ratings board’s website shows that one of its latest rating decisions is an M for Resident Evil 6 on ‘Xbox Series’.

Resident Evil 6 was originally released on Xbox 360 and PS3 in October 2012, blending “action and survival horror” to deliver what Capcom called “an epic and dramatic horror experience”.

The game was then ported to Xbox One and PS4 in March 2016, alongside ports of Resident Evil 4 and 5, with graphical enhancements and all previous add-on DLC included.

Capcom then brought Resident Evil 5 and 6 to the Switch in 2019, again offering all previously released DLC.

The rating of a new version suggests Capcom may be about to re-release a new current gen version of Resident Evil 6, perhaps with further graphical enhancements to take advantage of the current hardware’s extra power.

The fact the game has already been rated also makes it all but certain it will be a remaster, rather than the full remake Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 received in recent years.

What isn’t yet clear is whether a port of Resident Evil 5 – which was also released on Xbox One and PS4 in 2016, followed by Switch in 2019 – will be joining Resident Evil 6 and also be getting the current-gen remaster treatment.

Given that the ESRB doesn’t yet have a rating for a PS5 version of Resident Evil 6 at the time of writing, however – and given that an Xbox Series X/S release will almost certainly be accompanied by a PS5 one – it appears that the board is still in the process of rating whatever it is Capcom has submitted.