Bethesda Found Another Platform to Release Skyrim On: Nintendo Switch 2 — and It's Out Today

Bethesda has released The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim connected beauteous overmuch each level since it came retired successful 2011, but present it’s recovered another: the Nintendo Switch 2.

Bethesda announced and shadowdropped Skyrim Anniversary Edition today, December 9, connected Switch 2 conscionable successful clip for the holidays. Check retired however Skyrim looks connected Switch 2 successful the video below.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition includes the basal crippled and the 3 authoritative Expansions: Dawnguard; Dragonborn; and Hearthfire. Players connected Switch 2 get acquisition enhanced resolution, improved load times, show optimisation, Joy-Con 2 rodent support, question controls, Amiibo support, and much versus the OG Switch version, taking vantage of the much almighty hardware.

What’s more, this variation offers exclusive Nintendo contented from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, including the Master Sword, Hylian Shield, and Champion’s Tunic. You’ll besides get hundreds of unsocial Creations Club items, with quests, weapons, armor, spells, dungeons, and more.

Bethesda is selling Skyrim for Switch 2 standalone for $59.99, but there’s a escaped upgrade for Skyrim Anniversary Edition owners connected Switch. Owners of the Skyrim (base edition) connected Switch tin bargain the Anniversary Upgrade for $19.99 to play connected Switch and Switch 2.

Skyrim’s merchandise connected Switch 2 is definite to resurface each those jokes astir Bethesda milking the beingness retired of the crippled by releasing it connected each the platforms nether the sun. Skyrim has been ported and remastered truthful galore times that it’s go 1 of the internet’s astir enduring memes.

Bethesda is of people engaged moving connected The Elder Scrolls 6, though improvement main Todd Howard has indicated it is inactive immoderate clip away. In a caller interview, helium teased that Bethesda could shadowdrop The Elder Scrolls 6, arsenic it did with this year’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and present Skyrim connected Switch 2.

“I similar to conscionable denote worldly and merchandise it,” Howard told GQ. “My cleanable mentation — and I’m not saying this is going to hap — is that it's going to beryllium a portion and then, 1 day, the crippled volition conscionable appear.” The Oblivion Remastered shadowdrop was “a trial run,” Howard teased. “It worked retired well.”

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