Gotham Knights Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch

Sweet, one of the more underrated games released recently. While I don’t think it reaches the levels that the Arkham games do, it’s still fun, around an 8/10.

Like with most ports of PS5/Series X games, performance could be rough.

@blindsquarel Aye, but if Switch 2 offers BC and next gen upgrades for older titles, it might not matter.

Or just sell us the same thing again with more comparability to the other current gen systems, I dunno....

Yeah its coming to Switch. I just checked the ESRB website and it puts Nintendo Switch in the Gotham Knights category.

For those wondering if it is a cloud game, its not. Most cloud games on Switch aren't even rated on ESRB.

@Angelic_Lapras_King
True, it could end up being a release on the switch and switch 2.

Gotham Knights, the most, "Oh yeah, that did exist," Batman game since Gotham City Impostors.

and more fuel gets poured on to the direct rumor fire 🔥

If it’s not a cloud port then how the heck is this gonna run on the ol’ Switch?

Wish I had known that. But I am willing to double dip. Only way I am gonna get a Batgirl (which is what I play it as, never bothered to do the other 3 playthroughs) game and the crime loop is entertaining enough. I also wasn’t bothered by the ending like some folks were. The only thing that bothered me was the loot system. Still trying to unlock certain suits.

Eh, no. This reeks of "Welp, we have to recoup losses somehow, and have you SEEN what Switch users will buy???"

it will probably will be another botched collection like metal gear

I’m concerned for the performance of this lol

I'm shocked! Considering the Xbox One and PS4 ports where cancelled. I have it on my Xbox series S but would buy it again on the switch if it really does come out.

@johnedwin I believe you are confusing the upcoming Batman Arkham collection with Gotham Knights, unless you usually refer to single games as collections.

This was the one game that infamously gave the most powerful GPU (the RTX 4090) a headache. Will be interesting to see what sorcery they deploy.

Theres already a batman game like this on switch, it's called darksiders genesis.

Daggggnabbit!! I just earned a $50 rewards card on Microsoft rewards so I got the deluxe version of this on sale for $24….. I’d have saved my money if I knew it was coming to switch! 😂😂

@blindsquarel I wasn't expecting a positive comment, but it was a pleasant surprise. I agree, the game is underrated and while I also agree that it didn't reach the level of the Arkham trilogy, it's still a great game that while similar, did it's own thing and I believe that it had plans to be much more if people had given it a chance.

I saw this on my library shelf the other day, on PS5 not Switch obviously, and didn't borrow it b/c I feel like I read it was garbage but in retrospect I may have been confusing it w/ the upcoming Suicide Squad game. Or the Avengers game. 🤷 I'm about 5 hours into Marcels Guardian of the Galaxy and it's pretty good, so super geto games don't have to suck.👍

I played through this game with a friend. It was one of those bland tasteless paste-type games where nothing is actually bad but wow it is hard to care about the story or the gameplay or the visuals or the music.
You just feel relief when it's finally over and you can just trade it in and be done with it.

I’m not sure I’m going to get it because the reviews for this are mixed but I’m very happy that these type of big budget 3rd party major franchises are being released on my beloved Switch.

Blandest collect-a-thon ever made riding on the coattails of the awesome batman arkham games

can we have a middle earth Port ?

Direct confirmed for next week

I'll give this a miss thanks...

@SearchingS I’ve been playing shadow of war on steam deck and think that would be great to have on Switch!
If it came over I’d actually restart a play through on switch

Lovely fuel to the ‘Nintendo Direct rumour for next week’

@Dm9982 It stutters a little on series x so unless they figured out how to optimize it better (the last few updates have helped mind you) it may have hiccups on switch. I will double dip based on reviews but I am hoping it runs well. I enjoyed what I played well enough.

This is the one of the first games which started the whole "PS5 Pro and Series X mid gen revision needs to exist" discussion though?

@Ryu_Niiyama Thanks for the heads up, it’ll probably be a bit before I get to it anyways. Got Starfield I’m plodding through aimlessly atm 😂, plus went back to old school roots and started a Baldurs Gate 1 run recently. So many games so little time! Gotham looked fun tho, and I was interested in the story even if the gameplay wasn’t up to Arkham quality. Arkham is another series I haven’t even finished yet, waiting on the Switch release for that.

Everyone: can we have Arkham Origins please
WB: here have Gotham Knights it's no where near as good ...but you it's newer...

@Grumblevolcano
The absolute worst discussions and every single time someone will demonstrate using PC that the games aren’t utilizing CPUs correctly like not properly using multiple cores/threads and it gets completely ignored, a lot of these Switch ports happen because they are properly maximizing what they can get out of the hardware like using every CPU core efficiently

@Lizuka Gotham City Imposters was a guilty pleasure. Don’t know why but played that until server closed

I didn't buy this on the other platforms. I'm interested in Arkham trilogy, on a sale, but not this.

@MisterWhen people are asking for Origins? Why?

It hardly runs on the steam deck at lowest settings, so it’s going to be bad and look terrible on the switch.

@blindsquarel 8/10 isn't even close, it's a 5 at best. It gets nowhere close to what any Batman game should be and is nothing more than a Marvels Avengers knockoff, which is bad enough.

I’m going to be shocked if it is indeed possible that Gotham Knights got optimized to heck and back on Switch.

@anoyonmus’s claims check out about this NOT being a cloud release. This might also contain all the DLC as well; because the same listing also states the following:

“In-Game Purchases (PC, Xbox Series, PlayStation 5)”

Don't waste your money! I had low expectations for this game, but bought it on sale for my PS5, as I'm a big Batman/DC guy. It still disappointed me. A lot. And bored me. Looked fine graphically, but that's about all I can say that's positive about it. And it won't even look good on Switch.

@PepperMintRex Better than Arkham Knight probably

@LikelySatan Because Origins has a lot to like.

I would much rather have Origins than Gotham Knights and the performance wouldn't be an issue as it was on PS3 amd 360.

This timing is hilarious. I just traded my PS5 copy of this for credit towards my ARKHAM TRILOGY pre-order. It only ran 30 FPS on PS5, and the graphics were nothing to write home about to begin with, so IF they can somehow get the multi-player to work I could totally see this coming to Switch.

@LikelySatan
Was thinking the exact same thing.

@Switch-a-Roony I mean performance might be an issue just because Origins always kind of ran on prayer anyway. I've kind of assumed that's the reason it's not been ported to anything, the game was kind of always a buggy mess so it might break it trying to port it.

Granted that didn't stop them with how unstable the Arkham City remaster is so who knows.

They need to do a second collection with WB Montréal's two games (ORIGINS and KNIGHTS) and BLACKGATE. It won't happen, but it would move copies for sure.

To be honest I had forgot this game had come out.

If they keep the Coop gameplay in it, Hell yeah. Game is awesome. Not a 10, but imo def an 8 out of 10.

@LikelySatan Then they would release last gen ports as well. Which I think they eventually will.

I can't see this running on the Switch if the PS4 and Xbox One versions were cancelled like they were. I think we could be looking at a launch game for the next iteration of the Switch though, that seems more possible.

yes! I would definitely love this been kinda unhappy bout not having a system i can actually play this on.

How a game that was barely playable on xsx and ps5 can be ported on the old switch, remember the PS4 and xone version were not even released. If this is true it will be on the switch successor, or a complete mess or a cloud version ,the old switch just can' t run this game.

Can they like, unrate it and take it back?

Dont s..ew up the Batman Asylum trilogy !

hard pass on this along with arkham trilogy which only has 1 game on cartridge while the last 2 downloadable not giving money to lazy devs.

I’d rather see Origins get a switch release date over Gotham Knights.

So they can port the game to the switch, but not the ps4 or xbox one.

This game almost got me to pick up a PS5, as Nightwing is my favorite DC character (and second favorite comic book character, next to the Peter Parker Spider-Man), so this is cool news.

Next they’ll announce the Saints Row reboot for Switch.

No amount of optimization can make this game run good on Switch, not sorcery, withcery, dark magic etc. Can do it, not even Rasputin, Nicolas Flamel or Aleister Crowley can do their magick (or alchemy) on this to the point to be good. (But ill prepare my $50, just in case)

If true, then it's baffling that Warner Bros would fund a Switch port of Gotham Knights, a game that has big performance issues on PS5/XBS, while also refusing a Switch port of Multiversus, a game that looks like it could have run on a PS3/360.

I might buy this on Switch if it runs good enough.

I much prefer online games on my switch 👍🏻

I can't believe this won't be cloud, it ran so badly on PS5 and Series X at launch. That said, this was originally a cross-gen game so maybe they were doing it old-school and the cancelled PS4/Xbox One versions were a completely separate game/engine and it's that version they've down-ported to the Switch?

@RiasGremory Not necessarily lazy devs, but greedy publisher.

Yes I'd love to play an open world game of Gotham knights totally waiting for this to happen

As much as I've been pushing/Hoping for this trilogy to come to Switch, I'm wondering why they just didn't wait for the newer hardware. Regardless, day one for me.