One of the biggest news stories to come out of last night's Game Awards was the announcement of Elden Ring: Nightreign, a new standalone, co-op Elden Ring experience coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC next year.
Our lucky friends over at IGN got to speak to the game's director, Junya Ishizaki, and one of the questions relates to the game coming to Nintendo's upcoming Switch successor. It's undoubtedly a fair query, given that the three-player PvE outing is also coming to last-gen hardware like the PS4 and Xbox One.
Well, it seems that either Ishizaki has an exceptional Poker face, or FromSoftware hasn't even seen the Switch 2 as yet.
The director replies:
I'm afraid we know nothing about the Switch 2 at this point either. So it's difficult to say right now. Sorry.
Given that Nintendo is yet to formally reveal its next console, you can understand why Ishizaki would seek to evade such a question tactfully. This is, of course, complete speculation on our part, but you'd assume Elden Ring would be a likely candidate for release on Switch 2 – and that surely puts Nightreign in the frame, too.
What do you think? Do you believe that a studio like FromSoftware really has no visibility on Switch 2? Could we see Elden Ring, its DLC and Nightreign on Nintendo hardware in 2025? Let us know with a comment below.
[source ign.com]
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If its running on PS4 then you would think it would run on the Switch 2. The Switch 2 should atleast be as powerful as the PS4...... Right?
I fully expect Elden Rings base game to also make it to Switch 2, they would be crazy not to port it, then again I said the same about GTA 5 coming to Switch yet that strangely never made it over.
Are we now going to get comments from "we know nothing." Honestly people, they absolutely already know everything. But they are bound by NDAs to not say anything.
Like everytime a new system is about to be announced.
Of course we'll have to see to know for sure, but I doubt it won't be possible to port this to Switch's successor - again, the question is more if third parties will be willing to do so sooner rather than later!
I damn hope so. Had to buy a PS5 to play Elden Ring and its DLC. Love all the other Dark souls, sekiro and Bloodborne. Awsome games!
In the same way that an elden ring sequel was 'not in consideration' last week I suppose 😂
I needs to run these games. Thats why the AI optimize tools needs to be used well.
If they know nothing about the Switch 2, how do we know that it is backwards and NSO compatible?
Have a lot of previous Fromsoft games been on Nintendo consoles? I can’t think of any. In which case there would be no reason for them to know, or care, about Switch 2.
Really wish the article would have given a little more info about that. 🤷🏻♂️
@rjejr Dark Souls Remastered?
So, there is a precedent, but I don't feel like these Action RPGs are best suited for a Nintendo/Portable Console. Games like this, Witcher 3 and RDR just feel off in my Switch. I prefer them focusing on RPGS like Baldur's Gate 3 and Metaphor ReFantazio. Those are too long for my PS5 using the TV. I would prefer to play them portable in the couch in a Switch 2. Crossing my fingers
I'm pretty sure they knew about Switch 2 but won't say that they know since they sign an NDA to prevent any revelation of the system. Wouldn't surprise me if Elden Ring is one of the launch title Nintendo used to advertised the Switch 2's launch just like how they used Skyrim to advertised the Switch's launch.
Elden Ring is the best-selling non-Nintendo Japanese-published game of all time, there is no way Nintendo isn't at least trying to get it on the Switch successor.
Nightreign is a spin-off that is a different genre (i.e. not a Souls game), but it appears to be reusing Elden Ring's assets, models, map, and engine, so if the original Elden Ring is ported to Switch successor, then this should too.
@rjejr Nintendo released a slide in their last IR presentation showing companies they are developing relations with for Switch 2 and From Software was one of them.
So yes, they DO know what it is, they are just outright lying because of NDAs.
Doubt the switch 2 can run it.
once sony buys kadokawa the question will be irrelevant.
they knew nothing about a new elden ring too...
@solarwolf07 This is not an Elden Ring sequel, it's a spin off.
You know gaming journalism has peaked when Credible Sources know more about the next console than third party partners from Nintendo's very infographics.🙃
@Haruki_NLI “ developing relations “ could just mean Nintendo invited them over for tea and they accepted but no game development of any sort has begun. It’s possible Elden Ring could be coming to Switch 2 but that may not involve FromSoftware. See below. 🤷🏻♂️😩
@Diowine Thanks. Dark Souls is a FromSofteare game but Remastered was made by Virtuosos on Switch, so it’s possible FromSoft never even had a Switch dev kit.
Don’t believe me, but that’s what Fromsoft said.
https://www.fromsoftware.jp/ww/pressrelease_detail.html?tgt=20180417_darksoulsremastered_deferred_release
@Lord let me guess, your uncle works for Nintendo.
@UltimateOtaku91 In all honesty, 3rd party games really don't perform sales wise at the level you'd expect on Nintendo consoles. Plus with many portable PCs out there a portable elden ring is already possible without people that have the game needing to double dip.
Anyone that has wanted to play elden ring already has too.
"We don't know anything, so it's difficult to say".
Well if you don't know anything, say "no, nothing's planned".
"It's difficult to say" leaves room for doubt and expectations. So they definitely know something.
FromSoft is not a strong supporter of Nintendo consoles, so i don't think its out of the picture that they don't have a Switch 2 devkit. Also, given that Nintendo is an active player in Japan they probably already had industry info about Sony soon aquiring them, which would permanently lock them out from Nintendo ports anyway.
Let’s be real: Even if they DID know something they are not gonna admit it off a random question on freaking IGN of all places when NDAs exist. People don’t want news be released officially prematurely. Switch 2 hasn’t even been officially showed off yet people acting like we should know immediately what is getting ported
Already see people drawing a literal non answer into some “confirmation” lol
As much as I would love this, I seriously doubt it.
@Sephiran basically what this guy says is spot on.
FromSoft have never really had any type of relationship with Nintendo bar the one game they put, which came 6 months late and was broken on release until updates fixed it 6 months later, so DS1 remastered on the Switch probably sold like trash and that essentially put an end to any opportunity for a relationship between the two, at least at that time.
Now it seems as though they'll turn into a Sony 1st party studio and that will permanently put their games out of reach on any Nintendo console.
My suggestion is, if you want to play their games but don't want to get a PS to do it, look into a PC, outside of that I wouldn't hope for a Nintendo release any time soon. Unfortunately.
@Chunkboi79 Id like to play Eldin Ring but don't have it, and I doubt I'm the only one, so forgive me if I think your argument is a bit overly black and white. Honestly, I'd be genuinely surprised if the series doesn't land on Switch 2 in one form or another.
@abbyhitter They've been too busy making this game to listen to any Nintendo news!
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