{"id":666746,"date":"2026-06-30T21:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666746\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:14:18","slug":"the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remastereds-physical-switch-2-release-has-the-full-game-on-a-cartridge-and-weve-finally-got-a-release-date-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666746\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered’s physical Switch 2 release has the full game on a cartridge, and we’ve finally got a release date, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered<\/a> was one of 2025’s biggest hits after a sudden shadow drop<\/a>, especially in the United States<\/a>, which is encouraging news if you (like me) are still waiting for Fallout 3 and New Vegas refreshes<\/a>. Before that happens, though, there’s a Switch 2<\/a> port of the massive Cyrodiil-set RPG in the works, and it now has a release date.<\/p>\n

First revealed in early February<\/a> during a Nintendo Direct, Oblivion Remastered for Switch 2 promised a fully featured version that instantly sounded more ambitious than the Skyrim and Fallout 4<\/a> ports due to the involvement of Unreal Engine 5. It must be noted that, after a couple of major patches<\/a>, developer Virtuos appears to have given up on fixing the game’s deeper performance issues, so the existence of such a translation to far less powerful hardware is intriguing to say the least.<\/p>\n

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As revealed by the Adoring Fan-centric trailer above, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered will conquer Switch 2 on 11th August, and pre-orders are currently open via the Nintendo eShop<\/a> at \u00a349.99 (Standard version) and \u00a359.99 (Deluxe edition). As a reminder, the Deluxe edition has unique new quests with extra armour sets and weapons on top of the base game and its original expansion packs.<\/p>\n

Even better, it’s been confirmed the physical release will have the full game on a cartridge. No code in a box – like the Skyrim and Fallout 4 conversions – this time around, and no game-key card. Maybe it was online complaints that pushed Xbox and Bethesda to finally deliver on that front, or maybe it was the plan all along for some unknown reason.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how it looks on Switch 2.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, the press release also confirms the resolution and performance targets for what should be one of the most demanding Switch 2 ports so far: 900p at 30 frames per second on handheld and 1080p at 30 FPS docked. DLSS upscaling support is confirmed, too. After May’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle port<\/a>, I’m more optimistic about this one’s chances even if the newly shared screenshots<\/a> look quite soft.<\/p>\n

Another (small) shock is that Oblivion Remastered may be the most complete Bethesda Switch 2 port so far when it comes to control options, with motion controls, touch screen support, and mouse mode all confirmed. That’s a good sign, even if I remain worried about the presentation and performance. That won’t prevent me from rolling a new character though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered was one of 2025’s biggest hits after a sudden shadow drop, especially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}