Red Dead Redemption 2 Disc: Where Physical Copies Exist

Whether a Red Dead Redemption 2 disc exists for you depends entirely on platform, and PC owners are the group most likely to be searching for something that was never made.

PC: no disc, ever

The Windows version launched in November 2019 as a digital-only release, distributed through the Rockstar Games Launcher first and Steam a month later. There has never been a retail disc edition for PC — every copy, boxed or not, installs from a download.

Consoles: physical exists, but installs regardless

PS4 and Xbox One both got standard retail disc releases at launch in October 2018. A disc in the drive is not the whole story, though — at 150 GB, the install is large enough that inserting the disc still triggers a substantial day-one installation before the game is playable, the same way most open-world titles of that generation worked.

No Nintendo Switch version

RDR2 itself has never been ported to Switch. If you are thinking of the Red Dead game that did reach Switch, that is the original 2010 Red Dead Redemption bundled with Undead Nightmare, not this one.

The practical upshot

If you specifically want a disc, buy on PS4 or Xbox One. On PC, digital is not a choice you are making — it is the only format that has ever existed.