Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Delayed to 2026

Elden Ring Tarnished Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 has had its merchandise day delayed until 2026.

Originally planned for a 2025 launch, the Switch 2 mentation of FromSoftware’s 2022 Game of the Year-winning phantasy RPG, Elden Ring, volition present get adjacent twelvemonth to “allow clip for show adjustments."

This caller bundle of the basal crippled positive its Shadow of the Erdtree DLC was owed to onshore connected Nintendo’s caller console sometime this year, but the workplace has present pushed it to presumably absorption connected the method concerns that person been raised by those who person played it successful its pre-launch state.

This is thing IGN has first-hand acquisition of, having called Elden Ring connected Switch 2 “a catastrophe successful handheld mode” aft checking it retired astatine gamescom a mates of months ago. Performance was said to endure successful peculiar erstwhile exploring the world.

We noted that “frame complaint drops were important erstwhile turning the camera whilst exploring extracurricular of the tutorial area, and this, combined with a confusing fastener layout connected Switch 2, made combat confusing and exploration reasonably dispiriting.”

FromSoftware has apologized to fans looking guardant to playing Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin’s epic connected a handheld console, but thanked them for their “patience and support."

We don’t yet cognize erstwhile successful 2026 Elden Ring Tarnished Edition volition arrive, with a steadfast day inactive being kept close, but let's anticipation it's successful a overmuch amended authorities erstwhile we get to spot it next.

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