'We Will Do It' — Marvel Rivals Dev Confirms Nintendo Switch 2 Version in the Works

Marvel Rivals is officially coming to the Nintendo Switch 2, according to its developers.

In an interrogation with IGN astatine the Game Developers Conference, I asked Marvel Games enforcement shaper Danny Koo if a Switch 2 mentation was inactive being considered. In response, helium confirmed to IGN that it was really successful advancement already. "We're moving connected it, but erstwhile we person news, we'll denote that one."

Just to beryllium ace definite helium was truly confirming a Switch 2 mentation astatine last, I reworded the question and asked again. He again confirmed, saying: "We volition bash it."

A Switch mentation of Marvel Rivals has been a constituent of treatment for a portion now. Last year, anterior to the console's launch, we spoke with shaper Weicong Wu, who said astatine the clip that the workplace was "in interaction with Nintendo and moving connected immoderate improvement kits." Then successful July of that aforesaid year, crippled manager Guangyun Chen said a Switch 2 mentation was inactive being considered, but noted that the squad inactive didn't person a dev kit successful hand. Koo's effect suggests that this occupation has yet been solved.

Unfortunately, if anyone was clamoring to play Marvel Rivals connected mobile, that's astir apt not happening, astatine slightest not immoderate clip soon. I asked Koo if Marvel Rivals, which volition beryllium connected each different large platforms erstwhile the Switch 2 versions is out, would ever extremity up connected iOS oregon Android.

"Yeah, this 1 connected the mobile crippled is not going to work," helium said. "If we're going to bash a mobile, it's going to beryllium a full antithetic game. Because of the feedback, the touch. The controls are conscionable truthful different."

Even without a merchandise window, the Switch 2 confirmation is bully quality for Nintendo fans who person been waiting to play the crippled for a twelvemonth and a fractional now. Marvel Rivals is great, aft all, and we gave it an 8/10 astatine launch, calling it "approachable, yet with a precocious accomplishment ceiling to scope for, it's consistently a large clip nary substance which fan-favourite comic publication quality and accompanying skillset is astatine your fingertips." Season 7 conscionable launched a fewer days ago, bringing White Fox to the ever-growing quality roster.

We besides spoke to the Marvel Rivals squad astir their plans for adding much characters to the crippled successful the future, arsenic good arsenic the forbidden cognition they've had to sorb successful bid to program retired the game's year-long Path to Doomsday event.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].