Star Wars Outlaws gets demo, Switch 2 release date

Star Wars Outlaws, the open-world motion recreation from Large Leisure, is coming to Nintendo Change 2 on Sept. 4, writer Ubisoft introduced Friday.

A Change 2 port of this graphically intensive recreation — ray-traced lighting is a foundational factor of its look on PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X, and Home windows PC — shall be an necessary feather within the console’s cap. It’s one other signal that Nintendo is set to determine the Change 2 as a house for ports of AAA third-party games, which took some time to return to the unique Nintendo Change due to its underpowered {hardware}.

In fact, we’ll need to see how nicely titles like Star Wars Outlaws and Cyberpunk 2077 really look and carry out on the Change 2. In a brief glimpse of gameplay footage launched Friday, the sport seems to be working at 30 frames per second, which is the body charge of the standard mode on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X.

The Change 2 model of Star Wars Outlaws will arrive virtually precisely one yr after the sport’s launch, which got here on the finish of August 2024. Alongside the announcement of the Change 2 port on Friday, Ubisoft launched a demo of the sport on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X. Gamers can now check out a Tatooine-based chunk of Star Wars Outlaws that features dogfighting in orbit above the planet, battles with factions such because the Hutt Cartel and Tusken Raiders, a go to to Mos Eisley, and the cardboard recreation Kessel Sabacc — though it’s value noting that the demo is restricted to a few hours of play, and progress in it won’t carry over to the total recreation.

It might appear curious for Ubisoft to launch a demo of Star Wars Outlaws greater than seven and a half months after launching the sport, however there are seemingly a couple of various factors at play right here. For one factor, Ubisoft stated in mid-February, in the course of the investor name for its third-quarter 2024-2025 fiscal yr earnings report, that the sport had continued to fall short of the publisher’s sales expectations. So it is sensible that the corporate would attempt new issues, like a demo, in an try to usher in new gamers.

Secondly, now looks as if a very good time to get individuals to attempt Star Wars Outlaws. At Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 on Friday, Ubisoft confirmed a trailer for A Pirate’s Fortune, the second story growth for the sport. Scheduled to be launched on Might 15, the add-on incorporates a storyline by which Kay Vess (and her cute merqaal companion, Nix) works with the area pirate Hondo Ohnaka, who could also be acquainted to Star Wars followers from his appearances on the beloved animated collection The Clone Wars. Right here’s the synopsis from Ubisoft:

Embark on a mysterious journey with Kay and Nix to discover the Khepi system and be taught what it takes to be a real chief.

Crew up with legendary pirate Hondo Ohnaka and face off in opposition to Stinger Tash and her Rokana Raiders as you infiltrate the Khepi Tomb to uncover the secrets and techniques and hidden treasures it holds.

Alongside the best way, you’ll uncover the Miyuki Commerce League who provide new rewards for the Trailblazer in alternate for smuggling harmful items throughout the galaxy.

However maybe probably the most notable cause to leap in now’s that even for gamers who’ve already tried Star Wars Outlaws, it might be value giving the sport one other shot. Following the lukewarm reception at launch, Large Leisure launched plenty of important updates that made main modifications to parts such because the stealth mechanics. In a reappraisal of Star Wars Outlaws in December, following the rollout of these patches, Luke Plunkett wrote at Aftermath that the sport is now “markedly improved” and comes “fairly shut” to attaining its purpose of being “perhaps probably the most Star Wars recreation ever made.”