In a Nintendo Direct that was filled with years-old ports, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered fit right in. Of course, this is really only a year old, given it’s Bethesda’s remaster of the 20-year-old original that came out everywhere else in April 2025, now coming to the Switch 2 at some point in 2026.
The most recent Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, saw one of its own seventy-thousand remastered versions (the Anniversary Edition) release on the Switch 2 in December last year. Oblivion, which received a surprise announcement and simultaneous release of its remastered version on April 22, 2025, will now join it on Nintendo’s newer device, although rather shockingly it’s yet to sport a specific release date. Certainly all at Kotaku HQ watched its announcement during the Partner Showcase with the expectation of an “available later today” at the end.
Perhaps this ambiguity is in part due to how Oblivion Remastered still doesn’t run well on either PS5 or Xbox nearly a year after release (as a lifelong PC player, I do admit to enjoying the schadenfreude of console players getting to properly experience the infernal jankiness of Bethesda games), with the developers perhaps working on fixing ongoing issues before launching it on the even weaker tech of the Switch 2. And it’s fair to say that what was shown of the game today did not exactly look great in places.
Still, should it arrive in working order, it’ll be splendid to have this classic and enormous RPG available on the handheld console. Sure, the Oblivion gates were a bit boring, but it remains a fantastic game that’s well worth preserving in as many forms as possible. It’s just a shame we don’t know when it’s coming out!