Decapolice drops original Switch, pivots platforms

Level-5 has canceled Decapolice for the original Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, narrowing the game to PlayStation 5, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2. (level5.co.jp, decapolice.jp) The change appeared on April 10 in Level-5’s “LEVEL5 VISION 2026” update, and the official English site now lists only three platforms: Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Steam. The site also still says the release window is simply 2026. (level5.co.jp, decapolice.jp) That is a sharp revision from Level-5’s last formal release-delay notice on September 24, 2024, which still promised Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Steam after pushing the game from 2024 to 2026. (level5.co.jp) Decapolice has been in the pipeline for more than three years. Level-5 first announced the crime-suspense role-playing game on February 9, 2023, with versions planned for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4. (level5.co.jp) The platform swap matters because Nintendo is now in an active hardware transition. Nintendo said the Switch 2 launches on June 5, 2025 in the United States at $449.99, giving publishers a clearer reason to move late projects off the older machine. (nintendo.com) For players, the practical result is simple: anyone who expected to buy Decapolice on the first Switch now needs newer hardware or a gaming computer. For Level-5, it removes the burden of shipping the same game across two Nintendo generations plus two Sony generations. (decapolice.jp, level5.co.jp) Level-5 has not, in the materials it posted this week, given a technical reason for dropping the older versions. But the official site still describes Decapolice as a detective game built around a large city and movement between the real world and a virtual world, the kind of design that can become harder to scale down late in development. (decapolice.jp) The cancellation also reaches beyond Nintendo. The PlayStation 4 version is gone too, suggesting this is not only a Switch problem but a broader decision to stop supporting last-generation consoles as the project heads toward release. (decapolice.jp, siliconera.com) That leaves Decapolice as a cleaner, smaller target for Level-5: three platforms, one 2026 window, and no promise for aging hardware. After years of delays, the company is finally drawing a line under what version of this game it still plans to finish. (decapolice.jp, level5.co.jp)