Cyberpunk 2077 will be available from day one, June 5, as Switch 2 launch games. So will Street Fighter 6, Civilization 7, Hitman, Hogwarts Legacy, Yakuza 0, and Split Fiction, and several other third-party games. Final Fantasy 7 Remake is currently in development and will head to Switch 2 at a later date.
Indie developers are also getting involved: Hades 2, Silksong, and Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 will be coming to Switch 2, among many others.
The show of third-party support for the Switch 2 during the Direct is likely just the tip of the iceberg; Nintendo has reportedly been very selective about the partners it has been willing to share Switch 2 developer kits with up to this point. At the moment, it seems to be big publishers like Square Enix, EA, and Capcom who’ve been given access, along with select major independent studios.
Nevertheless, it’s a marked shift in tone from the launch of the Switch, when third-parties, wary of Nintendo after the failure of the Wii U, were slow to get on board. By the time they did, they only had a narrow window to release ports like Doom and The Witcher 3 before the gap between the handhelds’ capabilities and the power requirements of modern AAA games became too large to bridge.
The Switch 2 has now narrowed that gap, and this time publishers are keen to get involved from day one. Perhaps it was the 150-million-plus sales of the Switch that persuaded them?
