Well, the good news is, Resident Evil 7 is coming to Nintendo Switch. That’s going to please… well, a certain faction of♏ Switch gamers. The bad news is, it’s only confirmed for Japan so far, and it’s also releasing in an air-quotes ‘releasing’ sort of way.

Before we get into that, it’s worth addressing the fact that Resident Evil 7 was a curious one. It arrived in late January 2017, and was marketed as a ret🃏urn to form for the franchise. It wasn’t to be a gung-ho, Arnold Schwarzenegger movie of a game🌞, but a slower-paced, more deliberate, puzzle-centric experience.

You know, more of a Resident Evil Revelations than a Resident Evil 5 or 6. It was largely well-received in that capacity, As a result of all of this, in terms of its AAA status and mature ꦅsensibilities, it’s the kind of title that would do wonders for the Nintendo Switch’s library.

Which is where things get a bit sticky. The plucky little Switch has shown itself capable of running ports of Doom and Skyrim (to varying degrees of success, sure, but it has), but as any tech whizz will tell you, it’s no Xbox One S or PS4 Pro. To get the game up and running on the hybrid handheld, a brilliantly awkward solution has been devised: Resident Evil 7- Cloud Version.

That’s right. As reports, over on the Japanese Switch eShop, Biohazard 7 Resident Evil Cloud Version is set for release on May 24. What does that mean? Not that Final Fantasy VII’s mixed-up protagonist is going to make an appearance (although that would be a curveball of a crossover), but that ther🔥e’ll be a PS Now so༒rt of situation going on.

Put simply, the game will be running on Capcom’s servers/hardware and streamed onto your Switch. As such, the Switch is technically running Resident Evil 7, even if it isn’t really at the same time. Naturally, this requires an always-online connection, and puts paid to the system’s whole ‘portability’ thing. This would likely devour your mobile data like nobody’s dang business, after all. As well as that, you’re only renting the right to pl𒉰ay theﷺ game, at a cost of 2000 Yen ($20 or so) for 180 days’ access.

Still, with our glasses half full, let’s remember one thing: this may be a shonky way to play the game on Switch, but it is a way to play the game on the Switch. There’s no word yet as to whether other regions will gain access to this service, so we’ll have to wait and see if the rest of the world will eventually be able to stream this frightening (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:or not-so-frightening) title too.