Read Dead Redemption on PC has been one of those endless gaming sagas that never really goes away. Rockstar’s excellent open world Western dropped on Xbox 360 way back in 2010, but people are still anxiously waiting to see the game make the transition.
According to the Twitch stream of the game’s former lead multiplayer designer Kris Roberts, however, that’s something that Rockstar never really planned to do.
”I don’t think was ever an intention to have a PC version of Red Dead Redemption,” says Roberts. ”I was honestly very shocked when they did a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V. Obviously in development, we were all PC based and had it running for win32 clients for the entire development. But as far as licensing for the console and stuff, it was always going to be a Xbox 360 and PS3 title. To the best of my recollection, we never even seriously talked about optimising for PC.”
All that doesn’t sound particularly promising for a future port, but it should be pointed out that obviously Roberts doesn’t speak for Rockstar. Perhaps, in a thousand and one years when we all live in the shattered remnants of Earth That Was, under the cruel whips of the Seal People, we might actually get our hands on a port. I just wouldn’t hold out too much hope.
