Elden Ring Is Finally Coming To Switch 2 After Delay

Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is without doubt one of the most high-profile ports Nintendo has for the Change 2, and it was additionally reportedly one among of the worst-running video games on the gadget when people performed it ultimately 12 months’s Gamescom, to the purpose the place writer Bandai Namco was prohibiting people from posting footage of their time with the sport on-line. Effectively, after a delay for polish, FromSoftware’s acclaimed RPG lastly has a Change 2 launch date, and it’s pretty quickly.

FromSoftware and Bandai Namco have introduced that Elden Ring will come to Change 2 on August 28. That places it at slightly over 14 months after the Change 2’s launch final 12 months. Kotaku’s Rebekah Valentine was capable of get some hands-on time with a more moderen construct of the sport at this 12 months’s Sport Builders Convention in March, and mentioned the port was “extraordinarily high-quality” and “didn’t run like shit.” Truthfully, when you get previous the novelty of taking part in on a handheld, that’s all you actually need from a port, proper?

Your journey to the Erdtree begins right here. Rise, Tarnished.#ELDENRING Tarnished Version is coming to #NintendoSwitch2 on August 28, 2026. pic.twitter.com/ko0liMaHij

— ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING) June 4, 2026

Elden Ring: Tarnished Version will embrace each the bottom sport and the Shadow of the Erdtree enlargement, in addition to some cosmetics that haven’t been launched on different platforms but. The armor, weapons, and customization options will ultimately come to PC, PlayStation, and Xbox sooner or later.

The Change 2’s nonetheless getting some outdated video games ported to it after a 12 months available on the market, and broadly they appear to be holding up fairly nicely, with a couple of notable tough launches that needed to be patched. Cyberpunk 2077 was a formidable port at launch, however then we additionally bought issues just like the Skyrim port that had to be hammered out post-launch. Some corporations are nonetheless holding again their greater video games from the system like Gearbox with Borderlands 4, whereas others like Capcom appear to be thriving on the gadget with its Resident Evil ports.