When posed the question in an interview with IGN, Resident Evil Village Tsuyoshi Kanda said that though the game was designed with next-gen consoles in mind, Capcom only chose to launch it for PS4 and Xbox One because they were satisfied with the level of quality it was achieving on those consoles, and would not have done so otherwise.
Resident Evil Village is out in less than a week, on May 7, for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Stadia.
When Resident Evil Village was unveiled last year, Capcom announced it as a next-gen exclusive.
That being said, if the quality hadn’t been sufficient, I don’t think we would have released it.”