Rumour: Another Bethesda Game Is Landing On Switch 2, It's Claimed

We already have NMS. Thanks though!

As usual I take no stock in rumor, but will buy day 1 if this is true (as this has been on my port list since the 2 came out). I just hope there is better DLC than Shattered Space on the way. Let me marry Hadrian, Bethesda!

Can we have Fallout instead? Like 3, 4 or New Vegas?

For some reason, playing Starfield handheld on the ROG Ally X was a far better experience for me than on console. I lost interest twice on console, but once I played on a handheld, I easily sunk in over 100 hours. Won't double dip, but happy that its possibly coming to Switch 2.

@TheExile285 I’d be ridiculously happy with a Bethesda collection on Switch 2 - Fallout 3/NV/4, Oblivion Remaster, and Starfield.

Would also be down for Fallout 1&2, as well as some Obsidian love with Pillars 2, Avowed, and Outer Worlds Spacers Choice edition, and OW2.

@Divide_and_Wander this is my experience with Cyberpunk. Couldn’t get into it in Xbox, and now I’m currently lvl 46, and nearing act 3.

Can we stop taking Nate seriously? He previously "predicted" that SF would launch on PS5 late last year, not to mention his various debunked claims like the N64 Mini and Switch Pro. He seems to throw darts randomly at a board with his claims.

Yeah it's 100% happening. Let's move on.

Between:
StarLink: Battle for Atlas
No Man's Sky
The Outer Worlds
The Outer Wilds
Star Wars Outlaws

We're pretty much set for space exploration.

Though I would most definitely take Star Trek Online!

Also, Starfield absolutely sucked!
It was so boring and buggy.
You can't even check out a full planet in one shot. You have to land, check out that segment, take off, search around for a new landing site, then land again. Rinse and repeat at least five times!
Inventory weight for both person and ship is ridiculously low! Yes, you can upgrade later but it still sucks.

Trying to build a ship was a pain in the butt.

Oh boy, can’t wait to explore great vast, buggy nothing of Starfield!

I'm surprised that the adults who put this game together still have a job but whatever, maybe their next game will be competent.

Sounds good, the more games available on Switch 2 the better. I trust Nate more than the usual leaker since he has gotten stuff correct this year (date of the Switch 2 reveal, for instance), but I still realize that the rumor could not happen. I just like to have some fun speculating 😃.

I'm not even interested in Starfield on the PC lol

Oblivion Remastered instead, thanks

I did like Starfield on PC after a few updates. So I'll be picking this up, at least to show MS that I like their games on Switch 2.

How about Doom Dark Ages please?

@Spider-Kev

Wow are you serious???? I thought it was somewhere like no mans sky that you can travel the planet just like that.
If what you say is true, then i am really disappointed.

@Divide_and_Wander the same thing happened to me with the witcher iii. Couldn't get into it on the Xbox. But once it was ported to the switch, 60+hrs just like that.

As much as I personally didn’t gel with Starfield, I think that it’s transition to S2 is a ‘good thing’ in terms of hopefully paving the way for more ports… assuming it sells of course!

Starfield was not fun. I tried really hard to like it and can’t even remember much about what I did play unfortunately. Majorly missing any “fun factor”.

@JR150 I‘d prefer a Doom 2016 + Eternal collection „Switch 2 Edition“. Probably the better games, and they would look and run like a dream!

@Max_the_German
True but I've played those already and want Dark Ages.

@VeganH Time try Cyberpunk next. So good! Witcher still wins it for me, but Cyberpunk is up there next to it so far.

Why Starfield, where's DOOM: The Dark Ages? That's the only game I care about from Bethesda this year.

I had a feeling STARFIELD would come over. All that money spent on development. Need to get it to other platforms. Now, just give me DOOM: THE DARK AGES.

@kal_el_07241 Starfield is really bad. I know NMS is in a better state, but are there interesting quests in it or is it all emergent?

The more options for switch players the better but noooo thank you.
I'm still hoping for Hi Fi Rush although guess that's not up to Microsoft anymore 😒

@JR150 Dark Ages on a cart would be sweet...

Would much rather have Forza on switch 2 please Microsoft

The overall sentiment is so negative on this game. It was hyped up as much as anything I can remember, then the reviews were...fine.

The initial player reactions were that it was kind of a total bore. But they promised huge exciting DLC and content coming for the next decade.

Then the first big DLC dropped, and people just got angrier. And then it sounded like they were basically abandoning the game and all those promised future updates.

Really looking forward to playing Indy though!

@Spider-Kev Yeah it was so boring, I put in over 300 hours in the game.
Yes it had some bugs at the start (some game breaking ones at that), but most got fixed.
While the main story arc wasn´t the best and solely written for the endless New game+ cycle.
The Major side Story Arcs and tons of other side story arcs were simply amazing and great fun.

Ship building can be frustrating at times (let me place doors where I want tjeez), but when things click into place, its great fun and I have built some amazing ships.
And just look at the community with all the crazy ship designs they have come up with.

When it comes to the Shattered Space DLC..... yeah... that was a royal Eff Up! I gues they couldn´t afford to pay Andrea´s Voice actor to record some new lines for this DLC. /facepalm

Starfield is probably the most overrated game of the last decade. What really sucked wasn't only the game itself tho, but also the media hype that preceded it. I remember some gaming websites publishing a new article about Starfield every-single-freaking-hour before its release. What skill can't do, money can.

@SirLink Then don´t get overhyped!

Media earns its money these days by clicks. So they more hype they generate, the more clicks they get and the more money in their pockets.
It´s not a sole Bethesda problem. All do it. Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Sony.... all major publishers do it.

Anyone that "really" knows Bethesda and played all their games. They know their notorious buggy releases with each and every game they release! And as such keep their expectations low.

I did exactly that. Kept my expectations low and ignored all the media hype. Result was that I greatly enjoyed the game and for a Bethesda game it exceeded my expectations. I have sunk over 300 hours in the game and still play it on and off time to time.

@SirLink What do you expect? Those sites make money off views, and the hype for a new Bethesda game is going to generate views. It's either that or go the Nlife route of constantly putting out lists just so they have an excuse to post affiliate links to 50+ games.

@SirLink How can a game that has such a large legion of haters be considered "overrated?" If anything, the game is overhated.

Highly overrated game, this and Redfall are probably the worst Bethesda games going. The Oblivion Remaster was broken at launch and the new Doom flopped sales wise. Not a good last few years for Bethesda.

@Jeronan oh, I already quitted listening to hype about new games after this and also after paying Lego Star Wars 60€ and seeing it for sale at 15 a year later.
Anyway, I'm not sure if it's all just about getting clicks, I heard about journalists of "some" websites I can't name aiming at personal extra "benefits" (no, not THAT kind of benefits lol) for showing some shameless public bootlicking in favour of some publishers. I'm not saying that such publishers seek for that kind of "journalists" (there would be no need for that anyway), I'm just saying that the latter try to curry favor with them, which sucks hugely and ends up damaging the public image of the magazine they work for.

@Peach64 I don't feel like criticising the way a magazine uses to make money, I just think that every way can have a more or less morally acceptable measure in doing so. Furthermore, I doubt the magazine even had anything to do with any of this, in this case.

@Questionable_Duck oh man, I hate the word "haters".

Really surprised with the comments! I though Starfield became a GOOD game after the updates, but I don't know what to think anymore... Oh well, if it ever comes to Switch 2, I'll hace a closer look at it. I might bite after all.

I wonder what new glitches and messes this eShop exclusive very will have

@kal_el_07241 No Man's Sky is one of my favourite games of all time, but it's a sandbox exploration/simulation game with a fairly limited story and characterisation, and AFAIK Starfield is narrative-driven RPG. So despite their similarities, I don't think these two games scratch quite the same itch.

No interest in modern AAA games. But that's besides the point, isn't the playerbase for Starfield dead?

@Scollurio I thought Starfield is a single-player game? So does it matter how active the playerbase is?

@Polvasti Is it? Didn't know, as I said I'm not into modern AAA games, it's just the headlines I'm skimming through. "Starfiled is dead". I may have interpreted it as "no one plays it". Could also mean no support from Valve.

Whatever anyways.

I already "bought" this on Xbox so I'm good, but it's worth jumping into now that there have been major QOL updates since it launched.

Also, like most video games (or anything, I guess) it's best to come in with as few expectations as possible because you may not get the experience you thought.

I will buy this. Even the mediocre Bethesda games are good for at least a few dozen hours of enjoyment.

Indiana Jones, awesome. Starfield, no thanks. I say this as someone who bought it day one on PC, save your money

I enjoyed my time with Starfield on Xbox and if it comes to Switch I’ll definitely buy it again. It’s not as good as Skyrim or Fallout 4, but I’d still give it a 7 or 8 out of 10 for me personally. It’s got the Bethesda experience, with some frustrating gameplay mechanics that I hope they fix eventually.

@BaldB3lper78 COD is a joke these days. It’s so busy trying to compete with Fortnite and have all these crossovers with characters that don’t belong like Beavis and Butthead and Nicki Minaj that it’s completely lost sight of the actual wars the games were based on, the soldiers who fought in those wars, the sacrifices they made, the honor and valor and the history that made the earlier games great.

Easy pass imo

Not interested in Starfield at all - everything I've seen of it looks bad. If they bring Oblivion, Fallout 3 and NV to Switch though, I'd be very happy.

This is a safe bet and I saw people leaking this earlier.

It seems Nate the Dates only get dates. (I remember him changing his brand because of his past misses).

@Polvasti Yeah but in the case of a BGS game, they need players to fix it, so...

My main want from MS on the Switch would be the Master Chief Collection or a Forza offering. Both would be very welcome additions to the library. Have the MCC on my Steam deck but would absolutely double dip to smash the covenant on a Nintendo platform.

@the_beaver Well, you are entitled to love objectively bad games and hate objectively good ones... so if you like it, that's perfectly valid. If you don't, same.

@kal_el_07241 Starfield is a different game genre than NMS.
It's Skyrim in Space.

NMS was never a RPG and will never be.
NMS is in same genre as Elite Dangerous, Eve Online etc.

It's probably the Fallout 3 remaster rumored to be released in 2025 around same time as season 2.

Starfield has some of the most generic fake video game playing on to the background during a tv show vibes ever, Starlink has more unique personality and charm and that’s saying a lot. Uncle Phil’s zealots and acquisition cheerleaders treating it like the second coming pre release only for it to immediately evaporate after release was pretty amusing though.

@PKDuckman agreed. Also who cares about star field anyway, I'd rather have Forza horizon 3 or 4.

@Zeebor15 Yes.

As usual INTERNET PPL. Y’all talk about boring and then go play no man’s sky. God wasted his time when he made y’all.

@Daniel36 pshyah. You’re entitled to dismiss people on an internet forum, called Nintendo Life, that no one really ever reads except you Just as they’re entitled to not even feel like they have to respond to you.

@Regelion1 What? I think you greatly misinterpreted my statement, because I wasn't saying the game is bad, just that the person I responded to can like games others deem bad and dislike games others deem good. I didn't mean Starfield is a bad game, but if it was, people are still allowed to like it.

I probably could have worded it a little better, but that is what I meant.