{"id":11180,"date":"2025-07-15T08:24:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11180\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:24:05","slug":"rumour-major-third-party-devs-reportedly-sitting-on-multiple-switch-2-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11180\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Major Third-Party Devs Reportedly Sitting On Multiple Switch 2 Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Switch 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/22299e6f9294c\/switch-2.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752567845_9_switch-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Switch 2\"\/><\/a>Image: Nintendo Life<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve likely seen by now, there&#8217;s a new rumour from the latest Nate the Hate podcast about a Nintendo Direct potentially taking place some time after the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/donkey-kong-bananza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the same episode, the YouTuber and podcaster has touched on the subject of future third-party support for the Switch 2, and how although it might not look like there&#8217;s much on the way beyond the initial announcements, there are apparently multiple developers holding back reveals (possibly for Nintendo&#8217;s broadcast).<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo is also supposedly looking to reassure everyone that its new hybrid system is a &#8220;viable platform&#8221; for &#8220;big&#8221; third-party titles going forward. As for the announcements, they&#8217;re expected to be coming from many of the major publishers:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Announcements are coming&#8230; I also know studios like Capcom, Sega, Ubisoft, Bandai Namco and many others are just waiting. They have games they want to announce for the platform. They have a lot of support for this platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;It&#8217;s going to be a very important Direct for Nintendo, to say &#8216;this is the third-party support we have, look at the games, they can stand up to those other systems&#8217; be it from a visual or performance standpoint, and &#8216;we are a viable platform for you to select moving forward&#8217; to experience third-party releases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also adds how Microsoft is still expected to be a &#8220;big supporter of the system&#8221;, with Activision&#8217;s title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-plus-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3 + 4<\/a> arriving on Switch 2 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/elden-ring-tarnished-edition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elden Ring<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/star-wars-outlaws\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars Outlaws<\/a> and Square Enix&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/final-fantasy-vii-remake-intergrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade<\/a> are arriving later this year as well. FromSoftware&#8217;s Switch 2 exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/duskbloods\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Duskbloods<\/a> is also scheduled for next year, and last week, 2K locked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/nba-2k26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA 2K26<\/a> for the new platform following its confirmation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/wwe-2k25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWE 2K25<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How are you finding the third-party offerings on Switch 2 so far, and have you played any of them yet? What other games and series would you like to see going forward? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/youtu.be\/NYkD9QCBp4Y\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NYkD9QCBp4Y\" target=\"_blank\">youtu.be<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/contents\/50741-rumor-third-party-developers-holding-back-switch-2-announcements\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/contents\/50741-rumor-third-party-developers-holding-back-switch-2-announcements\" target=\"_blank\">gonintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Life As you&#8217;ve likely seen by now, there&#8217;s a new rumour from the latest Nate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1299,9355,75,9354,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-11180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-nintendo","9":"tag-nintendo-direct","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-rumours","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}