Elden Ring Tarnished listing spotted

The interesting part here is not whether Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is real. It is. Bandai Namco and FromSoftware announced it for Nintendo Switch 2 back on April 2, 2025. The real news is narrower — a retailer may have accidentally surfaced the first specific release date anyone has seen. Right now, that date is still just a retailer signal, not a confirmed launch plan. ### Was this game actually leaked? Not exactly. The game itself was already public. Bandai Namco’s official page lists Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition for Switch 2, and Kadokawa’s April 2, 2025 release says it was planned for 2025 before later official materials shifted to a vaguer 2026 window. So the “leak” is really about the day, not the existence of the port. (group.kadokawa.co.jp) ### What did the retailer listing show? PNP Games, a Canadian retailer, put up a preorder page that showed an estimated ship date of July 10, 2026 and a price of C$80.99. Coverage of the page says that date was later replaced with December 31, 2026, which is the classic placeholder move when a store no longer wants to show a specific day. That makes the July date feel more like something internal briefly slipped out than a random guess — but it is still unconfirmed. (group.kadokawa.co.jp) ### Why are people treating July 10 seriously? Because retailer pages usually do not invent a fully formed product out of nowhere. They work from distributor data, preorder setup sheets, or placeholder scheduling. The catch is that all three can look similar from the outside. A date can be real, semi-real, or just a temporary stand-in that happened to be more specific than it should have been. That is why this is useful evidence, but not proof. (gamingbible.com) ### What is in Tarnished Edition? It is basically the complete Elden Ring package plus a few extras. The Switch 2 version includes the base game, the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, four new armor sets, and Torrent appearance customization. It also adds two new starting classes — Heavy Knight and Knight of Ides. Those extras are not locked to Switch 2 forever either; Kadokawa said the new armor and Torrent-related features would also come to other platforms as a digital purchase. (games.gg) ### Why does the price matter? Because it tells you how Bandai Namco is positioning this release. IGN found preorder listings at $79.99, and the PNP page showed C$80.99. That puts Tarnished Edition in premium-new-release territory even though Elden Ring first launched in 2022. Basically, this is being sold as the definitive bundle, not a cheap late port. (group.kadokawa.co.jp) ### Is there anything annoying about the Switch 2 version? Yes — the current preorder listings point to a Game-Key Card release rather than a fully self-contained cartridge. That means the physical package behaves more like a license key with required downloads than the old-school “game is all on the card” setup some Nintendo buyers prefer. For collectors, that is a real downgrade. (me.ign.com) ### Why does this port matter beyond one date? Because Elden Ring is not some niche back-catalog pickup. Kadokawa said the game had shipped more than 28.6 million units worldwide as of September 2024, and Shadow of the Erdtree sold 5 million units in its first three days. Getting that onto Switch 2 is a big third-party credibility play for Nintendo’s new hardware. (games.gg) ### So what is the bottom line? Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is definitely coming to Switch 2. What is not definite is July 10, 2026. The retailer listing is the strongest clue yet, but until Bandai Namco puts a date on its own page, treat this as a very plausible slip — not the final word. (en.bandainamcoent.eu) (group.kadokawa.co.jp)