Digital Extremes says the “backlog” of dev kits is the rationale gamers have but to see an official Nintendo Swap 2 port for Warframe.
Studio CEO Steve Sinclair defined why the crew behind the favored house ninja motion sport hasn’t created a port for Nintendo’s sequel hybrid console throughout a press Q&A IGN attended forward of at the moment’s TennoCon 2025 livestream. He mentioned the Digital Extremes tech crew is “so excited” to see what a Nintendo Swap 2 Warframe port would appear to be however can’t even start improvement till they get their arms on the required {hardware}.
“Our tech crew is so excited to benefit from the high-speed cores and the opposite actually cool options of it,” Sinclair mentioned. “There’s simply such a backlog for dev kits. So, yeah, if anybody… only one, that’s all it will take.”
Digital Extremes introduced its 12-year-old multiplayer hit to Swap in 2018, permitting longtime gamers to take pleasure in all that Warframe has to supply, at house and on the go. It’s accessible to play by way of Nintendo’s new console however solely by way of backward compatibility, with Nintendo together with it on an inventory of Swap 2 titles that also undergo from start-up points.
Digital Extremes mentioned it’s nonetheless investigating the reason for these hangups, but it surely’s the enhancements {that a} Swap 2 model of Warframe might convey which have gamers actually excited. Sinclair teased quicker load instances as simply one of many potential upgrades.
“I do know our programmers are simply, like, ‘Oh, I can’t wait.’ We positively have plans. After we get a dev package, we might be doing a customized construct for Warframe. Completely.”
The Swap 2 launched on June 5, 2025, introducing new options resembling Pleasure-Con mouse performance, improved graphics, and enhanced social instruments. Though its launch lineup was in a position to lean on third-party help with titles like Cyberpunk 2077, Deltarune Chapter 1 – 4, Cut up Fiction, Elden Ring: Tarnished Version, and Yakuza 0 Director’s Reduce, early adopters stay looking out for extra video games to fill out their libraries.
As gamers clamor for extra video games, different indie builders say they, too, are in want of dev package entry. Into the Stressed Ruins creator Ant Workshop, Citizen Sleeper 2 developer Fellow Traveller Video games, Unreal Engine help studio Tanglewood Video games, and extra spoke about dev package shortage with GamesIndustry.biz final month. Insider Nate the Hate additionally reported that many builders throughout the indie and third-party areas have been unable to start out work on Swap 2 video games as a consequence of an absence of dev package entry (through TheGamer). It is at the moment unclear which publishers at the moment have entry to Swap 2 dev kits or when they are going to grow to be extra accessible.
For now, there’s no phrase on when Digital Extremes or lots of the different dozens of builders with out dev kits will obtain the instruments they should convey their video games to Swap 2. As extra titles slowly trickle in, you possibly can learn our 7/10 Nintendo Swap 2 launch overview. You may as well try all the things revealed throughout at the moment’s TennoCon 2025 livestream right here.
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