"Elden Ring Set for Nintendo Switch 2 Release in 2025"

Elden Ring is set to make its debut on the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025, as announced during the recent Switch 2 Direct. This exciting news brings FromSoftware's acclaimed open-world masterpiece to Nintendo fans, though details on how it compares to other platform versions remain undisclosed. The presentation highlighted the arrival of Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition on the new console later this year.

Since its launch in February 2022, Elden Ring has become a cultural phenomenon, amassing over 13 million sales within the first month and reaching nearly 29 million copies sold to date. The game has inspired unique challenges, such as defeating bosses with the Nintendo Switch Ring Fit controller, and has spurred ambitious speedrunning efforts. The game's success continued with the release of the critically acclaimed Shadow of the Erdtree DLC in 2023, followed by the promising cooperative spin-off, Elden Ring: Nightreign, which has shown great potential in early public network tests.

IGN's 10/10 review of Elden Ring praised it as "a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path." Similarly, the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC received a perfect score, with IGN stating, "Like the base game did before it, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree raises the bar for single-player DLC expansions. It takes everything that made the base game such a landmark RPG, condenses it into a relatively compact 20-25 hour campaign, and provides fantastic new challenges for heavily invested fans to chew on."

While FromSoftware has yet to announce a specific release date or detail the differences in the Tarnished Edition compared to previous versions, fans can stay updated on all announcements from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct.