INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At launch, the long-awaited (and much hyped) western adventure that is Red Dead Redemption 2 is only available on the PS4 and Xbox
One.
That might not be the case forever, though
Code hidden within the game mobile companion app suggests that a PC version could be in the works.
Last week, we wrote about Red Dead
Redemption 2 companion app, which lets you rip the in-game map off the TV and put it on a nearby tablet, instead
No more pausing just to figure out if you and your horse are still headed in the right direction.
Some tinkerers over at GTAForums (as
spotted by RockstarIntel) have been poking around that very app, and have unearthed a few interesting parameters left behind.
Two unused
parameters tucked into the app (&PARAM_companionAutoConnectIpPC& and &CommandIsPcVersion&) mention the PC platform by name, but there are
also dozens of different parameters referencing advanced graphic settings that generally don&t exist on consoles.
While the original Red
Dead Redemption never made it beyond the console, this wouldn&t be Rockstar first foray into the PC world
Many of their most popular games landed on PC… eventually
GTAV, for example, launched on consoles in September of 2013 and made its way to Windows in April of 2015
Noire shipped for consoles in May of 2011, and hit PCs near the end of the same year.
Adding fuel to the fire: A few months back, a mention
of a PC build reportedly popped up in a Rockstar designer LinkedIn profile.
With all that said: As with all things relating to video game
releases, don&t get your hopes up too high until you hear it straight from the developer mouth
While the signs point to a PC build having existed in some form at some point, there always the possibility that these parameters are left
over from the company own internal testing, or that plans will change.
