Starfield Rated for Switch 2 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 April 2026 / 2,531 Views
The space RPG from Bethesda Game Studios, Starfield, has been rated for the Switch 2 in Taiwan by the Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee. This suggests a Switch 2 port is coming in the near future.
This follows the game releasing for the PlayStation 5 earlier this month alongside the Free Lanes update and Terra Armada paid DLC.
Bethesda released Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition on the Switch 2 in February, while Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will release on the console on May 12, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered later this year.
Starfield first released for the Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass in September 2023.
Thanks, Universo Nintendo.
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This game running on Switch 2 underclocked toy CPU will be "something"!!
It is a mediocre game anyway. I highly doubt many Switch 2 owners will buy it.
Seems to be tanking hard on PS5.
This toy is more powerful than a ps4 pro 😂
....ps4 pro is old as fuuckk
So right lol! Thats why it weights 6x more than a S2 and it also needs a external display & power source to work :(
You were all jacking off to it not long ago. And when the ps6 releases, you will be referring to the ps5 pro as a shit inferior device.
Sure, PS4 pro have a cpu that was outdated and weak in 2013. That said, because of factors like clock speed, switch 2 CPU is not far ahead of PS4.
Completely different architecture. Switch 2 is way ahead.
Sure, it's ahead. But not next generation ahead, especially if you factor clock and memory bandwidth
It's way ahead because you can't play games designed for current gen hardware, on last gen systems.
Even cyberpunk is on switch 2 is far better than the ps4 pro offering.
If they can't even get it running right on PS5, this is going to be a REAL clusterF.
It would be hilarious if it would run better on Switch 2 than on PS5... what could be even worse than game freezes and save file errors like on PS5? Maybe 20 fps? I hope the best, but it's Bethesda... ;-)
Bethesda's doing pretty well with the Switch 2 releases so far. Skyrim was a bit bumby at first but it's in very good shape now, Fallout 4 has been very solid. This is another step up but I could see it.
It's kinda funny that the PS5 port has had so many issues when Starfield's initial launch was one of the better ones for Bethesda on the technical side.
There is a solution to this and Tod Howard addressed it 2 years ago
There seems to be a lot of Switch haters on this forum, whenever some big name third party game gets announced for NS2 theres always a string of comments attacking the CPU/Tech.
With proper optimizations, this could actually be a really impressive port and addition to the NS2 catalog
BUT if the recent PS5 port is anything to go on, I doubt they would have put in the time/work to do so
Starfield has very heavy CPU requirements so I will be very curious to see how this performs and what sort of compromises it requires.
What's the point when they can barely get to run in PS5
is this true? i love my switch 2 and its now my system of choice (over the switch 1) i will not purchase on my switch 2
