2022 Open-World RPG May Be Coming to Nintendo Switch 2

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Summary

  • Gotham Knights may be coming to Switch 2.

  • The 2022 open-world ARPG was previously slated for Switch, but never landed on Nintendo's first hybrid console.

Gotham Knights can come to Switch 2suggests some recently apparent evidence. If that were to happen, Nintendo's unannounced console would mark the fourth platform there Gotham Knights was released.

The Switch 2 is rumored to enter mass production in late 2024, possibly as early as late September. This belief is supported by the recent increase in hardware leaks that describe or depict the upcoming console. Switch 2 game leaks haven't been as common throughout this period.

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Anyway, Gotham Knights has just been identified as a potential Switch 2 title. This was done by YouTuber Doctre81 (via Universo Nintendo), who unearthed a LinkedIn profile of a Polish game developer and mentioned his contribution to optimizing two versions of the 2022 ARPG for “unreleased” platforms. Nintendo's current-gen console is probably one of the two systems, not least because a Switch version of the Gotham Knights was rated as far back as September 2023 – although it didn't make it.

The second “unreleased” version of the game is speculated to be aimed at Nintendo's next console. Such a port could be fairly easy to produce due to the Switch 2 being backwards compatible. Both mention the two unannounced versions of Gotham Knights were removed from the LinkedIn profile when Doctre81 reported them in early January 2025.

Gotham Knight's Switch Port has probably been abandoned

See how Gotham Knights even had performance issues on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, it's likely that its developers ran into difficulties porting it to the significantly less powerful Switch. And given that it's been more than two years since the game's Switch rating surfaced online, it's possible that this version of the open-world RPG has been abandoned in favor of a Switch 2 port.

Not too many titles have already been confirmed for the Switch 2, likely because Nintendo has yet to officially reveal its highly anticipated device. The list of games already known to be coming to the Switch successor includes open-world RPGs My time at Evershine and Persona-like RPG Bestiary. The British studio Playtonic Games has also recently hinted at the remaster of its platform game Yooka-Laylee looking at a Switch 2 release. Many more third-party titles are likely to be confirmed for the Switch successor as soon as the console is officially revealed. Nintendo has repeatedly said it intends to announce the device before the end of its current fiscal year, which runs until March 31. The Switch 2 is therefore not expected to hit store shelves until the second quarter of 2025 at the earliest.

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