Warframe Developer Insists 'Backlog' of Dev Kits to Blame for Lack of Nintendo Switch 2 Port

Digital Extremes says the "backlog" of dev kits is the crushed players person yet to spot an authoritative Nintendo Switch 2 larboard for Warframe.

Studio CEO Steve Sinclair explained wherefore the squad down the fashionable abstraction ninja enactment crippled hasn’t created a larboard for Nintendo’s sequel hybrid console during a property Q&A IGN attended up of today’s TennoCon 2025 livestream. He said the Digital Extremes tech squad is “so excited” to spot what a Nintendo Switch 2 Warframe larboard would look similar but can’t adjacent statesman improvement until they get their hands connected the indispensable hardware.

“Our tech squad is truthful excited to instrumentality vantage of the high-speed cores and the different truly chill features of it,” Sinclair said. “There’s conscionable specified a backlog for dev kits. So, yeah, if you cognize anyone… conscionable one, that’s each it would take.”

Digital Extremes brought its 12-year-old multiplayer deed to Switch successful 2018, allowing longtime players to bask each that Warframe has to offer, astatine location and connected the go. It is disposable to play done Nintendo's caller console but lone done backward compatibility, with Nintendo including it connected a database of Switch 2 titles that inactive endure from start-up issues.

Digital Extremes said it’s inactive investigating the origin of these hangups, but it’s the enhancements that a Switch 2 mentation of Warframe could bring that person players genuinely excited. Sinclair teased faster load times arsenic conscionable 1 of the imaginable upgrades.

“I cognize our programmers are just, like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait.’ We decidedly person plans. When we get a dev kit, we volition beryllium doing a customized physique for Warframe. Absolutely.”

The Switch 2 launched connected June 5, 2025, introducing caller features specified arsenic Joy-Con rodent functionality, improved graphics, and enhanced societal tools. Although its motorboat lineup was capable to thin connected third-party enactment with titles similar Cyberpunk 2077, Deltarune Chapter 1 – 4, Split Fiction, Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition, and Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut, aboriginal adopters stay connected the lookout for much games to capable retired their libraries.

As players clamor for much games, different indie developers accidental they, too, are successful request of dev kit access. Into the Restless Ruins creator Ant Workshop, Citizen Sleeper 2 developer Fellow Traveller Games, Unreal Engine enactment workplace Tanglewood Games, and much spoke astir dev kit scarcity with GamesIndustry.biz past month. Insider Nate the Hate besides reported that galore developers crossed the indie and third-party spaces person been incapable to commencement enactment connected Switch 2 games owed to a deficiency of dev kit entree (via TheGamer). It's presently unclear which publishers presently person entree to Switch 2 dev kits oregon erstwhile they volition go much available.

For now, there’s nary connection connected erstwhile Digital Extremes oregon galore of the different dozens of developers without dev kits volition person the tools they request to bring their games to Switch 2. As much titles dilatory trickle in, you tin work our 7/10 Nintendo Switch 2 motorboat review. You tin besides cheque retired everything revealed during today’s TennoCon 2025 livestream here.

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