{"id":874530,"date":"2025-09-21T01:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/what-is-going-on-with-the-switch-2-version-of-star-wars-outlaws\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:12:58","slug":"what-is-going-on-with-the-switch-2-version-of-star-wars-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/what-is-going-on-with-the-switch-2-version-of-star-wars-outlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Going On With The Switch 2 Version Of Star Wars Outlaws?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Star Wars Outlaws<\/em> is coming to Switch 2<\/a> in just a few days. It\u2019s Ubisoft\u2019s first big port for Nintendo\u2019s new handheld hybrid. So why isn\u2019t the company talking more about its 2024 blockbuster coming to the best-selling console of 2025? Maybe because it\u2019s the latest Switch 2 port to reportedly run less than great.<\/p>\n

Star Wars Outlaws<\/em><\/a>, a stealth adventure about gangsters and bounty hunters on the fringes of the Galactic Empire, is currently the 10th best-selling game on the Switch 2 eShop thanks to digital pre-orders, but you won\u2019t find it anywhere on the show floor at PAX West this weekend. Despite stations for fans to try big ports like Elden Ring<\/em> and Borderlands 4<\/em> on Nintendo\u2019s new hardware, a demo of Star Wars Outlaws<\/em> was only playable behind closed doors, according to YouTube channel GVG<\/em>\u2018s new hands-on video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even worse, the outlet was prohibited from sharing any direct capture footage of Star Wars Outlaws<\/em> running on Switch 2. Over-the-shoulder recording wasn\u2019t allowed either. The demo GVG<\/em> tested included an early section inside of a Star Destroyer and a ship fight in space. The frame rate often appeared to dip below 30fps while the visual quality varied from good to unimpressive depending on the scene. And GVG<\/em> didn\u2019t even get to try any of the open-world sections down on planets.<\/p>\n

There have been some potential red flags around Star Wars Outlaws<\/em>\u2018 performance on Switch 2 for a while now. At a Partner Nintendo Direct earlier this summer, Ubisoft only showcased the game for two minutes<\/a>, and most of that was developers (Ubisoft Red Lynx is doing the port) talking into the camera rather than direct feed of gameplay. What little snippets the publisher did share didn\u2019t look outstanding either. Digital Foundry<\/em> pointed<\/a> to some impressive lighting effects at the time, but was left mostly with concerns about just how downgraded it would be from the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S versions.<\/p>\n

How will Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/em> run on Switch 2?<\/h2>\n

While not officially confirmed, reading between the lines<\/a> of recent Ubisoft earnings calls leaves the strong impression that Star Wars Outlaws<\/em> isn\u2019t the only current-gen exclusive the company is planning to port to Switch 2. Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows<\/em> sounds destined to arrive eventually as well. Has Ubisoft been investing more resources in optimizing that port, knowing it\u2019s the bigger franchise, at the cost of quietly leaving Outlaws<\/em> to flounder a second time (remember, Shadows<\/em> was originally delayed precisely because of Outlaws<\/em> launch struggles last year)?<\/p>\n

Right now, there are basically two buckets of third-party Switch 2 ports. One includes Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> and Street Fighter 6<\/em>, which rarely remind you that you\u2019re playing on weaker hardware than what the games were originally designed for. The other includes stuff like Hitman World of Assassination<\/em>, which despite being serviceable, often feels like a noticeable downgrade (though things improved just this week<\/a> with a capped frame rate option).<\/p>\n

Elden Ring<\/em>, which reportedly ran like goop when you hit the open-world sections, and now Star Wars Outlaws<\/em> appear to be in that second bucket as well. Bandai Namco tried to prevent people from filming footage of FromSoftware\u2019s first Switch 2 game at Gamescom 2025<\/a> as well, though that game at least doesn\u2019t have a release date yet. Unless a day-one patch or series of other upgrades can improve Outlaws<\/em> on Switch 2, there\u2019s now a question of whether a potential Shadows<\/em> port will fall into the \u201cmeh\u201d column of ports as well.<\/p>\n

Update 9\/1\/2025 11:11 a.m. ET:<\/strong> 40-minutes of footage of Star Wars Outlaws<\/em> running on Switch 2 in docked mode has seemingly leaked ahead of launch. What\u2019s shown looks decent enough compared to what was described of the PAX West demo running in handheld mode:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Ethan Gach
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Star Wars Outlaws is coming to Switch 2 in just a few days. It\u2019s Ubisoft\u2019s first big port for Nintendo\u2019s new handheld hybrid. So why isn\u2019t the company talking more about its 2024 blockbuster coming to the best-selling console of 2025? Maybe because it\u2019s the latest Switch 2 port to reportedly run less than great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2438],"tags":[6972,5310],"class_list":{"0":"post-874530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-going","8":"category-switch","9":"tag-going","10":"tag-switch"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}