Switch 2 game leaks grow
Rumors about Nintendo’s Switch 2 keep centering on software rather than hardware — a ratings‑board listing suggests the 2021 Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy could be ported to Switch 2, and outlets are treating that as a solid candidate for the new system. ( ) Separately, Level‑5 has reportedly moved Decapolice off the original Switch and onto Switch 2 (plus PS5 and PC), which publishers often do when a project outgrows older hardware — that migration is already showing up in multiple reports. ( ) Taken together, leaks and platform shifts suggest publishers are treating Switch 2 as the new default target for mid‑to‑high‑end ports. (nintendoeverything.com)
A 2021 Marvel game that only ran on Nintendo Switch through cloud streaming just showed up in a Taiwan rating for Nintendo Switch 2, which usually means a real port is being prepared rather than another video feed from a server farm. (gematsu.com) That game is Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which launched on October 26, 2021 on PlayStation, Xbox, personal computer, and as a cloud version on the first Switch. Nintendo’s own store page still labels the Switch release “Cloud Version,” which is the key detail behind the new rumor. (marvel.com, nintendo.com) Cloud versions are the workaround publishers use when the local machine cannot comfortably run the game itself, so the Switch acts more like a screen and controller than the box doing the heavy lifting. If Guardians of the Galaxy moves to a native Switch 2 release, that would mean Nintendo’s newer hardware can carry a game the old system had to outsource. (nintendo.com, gematsu.com) The second clue came from Level-5, which updated Decapolice so it is now listed for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Steam, while the older Switch and PlayStation 4 versions were removed. The official English site now shows only those three platforms and a 2026 release window. (decapolice.jp) Gematsu and Siliconera both tied that platform change to Level-5’s April 2026 announcements, and both outlets reported the same pattern: one version added for Switch 2, two versions dropped for older machines. That is the kind of move publishers make when a project gets bigger, slips later, or no longer fits the lowest-power target cleanly. (gematsu.com, siliconera.com) Nintendo is not hiding the machine anymore. Nintendo’s official United States page says Switch 2 is available now, which changes the leak story from “what could launch with the console” to “what publishers think is worth bringing over next.” (nintendo.com) The software pattern is becoming clearer than the hardware rumor mill. One bucket is old cloud games that could come back as proper native releases, and another bucket is new projects that are skipping the first Switch entirely and starting on Switch 2 instead. (nintendolife.com, decapolice.jp) The Guardians rating is still only a rating-board clue, and ratings can appear before a publisher says a word in public. Decapolice is further along than rumor because Level-5 has already changed the official platform list itself. (gematsu.com, decapolice.jp) Put together, those two signals point in the same direction: publishers are starting to treat Nintendo Switch 2 as the normal destination for games that sat awkwardly on the first Switch. When one game upgrades from cloud streaming and another abandons the old hardware outright, that is what a platform handoff looks like in real time. (nintendo.com, decapolice.jp, gematsu.com)
