ESRB Xbox Series Listing Fuels Resident Evil 5 Remake Speculation

The ESRB listing for the Xbox Series version of Resident Evil 5 actually dates back to February 2025, which can be confirmed through Internet Archive. Several other Xbox Series pages for Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil Revelations, and Resident Evil Revelations 2 also appeared between January and February 2025.

Although the Xbox One releases of these titles are backward compatible with Xbox Series consoles, that wouldn’t necessitate separate ESRB pages, and the ESRB Ratings Process page says digital games rated via the IARC process do not have Rating Summaries—yet these Xbox Series pages do.

As a publisher has to submit a questionnaire to the ESRB to have its game rated, it would seem that Capcom specifically requested that physical Xbox Series versions of these games be rated. Either this was a mistake on Capcom’s behalf, or some kind of bundled physical release of these games is still in the works.

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