With this year’s Game Developers Conference winding down, we’re starting to see coverage from different outlets of new and upcoming games seen on the show floor. One such is the belated Nintendo Switch 2 port of Elden Ring, which was revealed nearly a year ago by developer FromSoftware. Slated for a late 2025 release before being delayed, there were concerns over its performance after a rather weak demo at TGS 2025. If this new footage from GameSpot is anything to go by, though, Elden Ring is going to be perfectly fine when it does eventually hit Nintendo’s console.
In a roughly nine minute reel of raw gameplay, we see GameSpot’s correspondent take Elden Ring through its paces in portable mode. While gauging the exact frame rate is impossible from the angle of the footage, it looks to be a pretty stable 30 fps. The demo was limited to the early segments of Limgrave, which aren’t as graphically intense as later portions of the game, so there is potential for performance woes later on. Still, through rainy fields, dark dungeons, and even the first major boss fight, this port performs admirably.
Elden Ring is a fairly substantial game, so we don’t know how the DLC portion will perform. We also don’t know if multiplayer will incur fps drops or anything like that. There are still a lot of unknowns about this Switch 2 port, but the extra development time has clearly been put to good use.
Elden Ring Switch 2 release date
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is still scheduled for a 2026 release on Switch 2.
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Written by Peter Glagowski
Peter has been a freelance gaming and film critic for over seven years. His passion for Nintendo is only matched by the size of his collection.
