"In a Nintendo Direct that was filled with years-old ports, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered fit right in. Of course, this is really only a year old, given it's Bethesda's remaster of the 20-year-old original that came out everywhere else in April 2025, now coming to the Switch 2 at some point in 2026. The most recent Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, saw one of its own seventy-thousand remastered versions (the Anniversary Edition) release on the Switch 2 in December last year."
"Perhaps this ambiguity is in part due to how Oblivion Remastered still doesn't run well on either PS5 or Xbox nearly a year after release (as a lifelong PC player, I do admit to enjoying the schadenfreude of console players getting to properly experience the infernal jankiness of Bethesda games), with the developers perhaps working on fixing ongoing issues before launching it on the even weaker tech of the Switch 2."
A Nintendo Direct featured many years-old ports and included The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Bethesda released Oblivion Remastered on April 22, 2025 for other platforms and plans a Switch 2 version sometime in 2026 without a specific release date. The recent Skyrim Anniversary Edition arrived on the Switch 2 in December. Oblivion Remastered has experienced performance problems on PS5 and Xbox nearly a year after release. Developers appear to be addressing ongoing issues before launching on the less powerful Switch 2. Footage shown during the Partner Showcase had noticeable visual problems in places. Despite technical concerns and some boring Oblivion gates, Oblivion remains a large, classic RPG worth preserving on handheld hardware.
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