Switch 2 Pre-Orders: Elden Ring, Oblivion, and TMNT Lead the Pack
Nintendo’s weekly pre-order ticker usually reads like an inventory spreadsheet: dates, retailers, SKUs, move along. The August 2 edition is a different animal. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition. Oblivion Remastered. Lies of P: Complete Edition. Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2. In one update, the Switch 2’s autumn window went from “promising” to “genuinely crowded” — and for anyone who games on the go, that changes the math on what to buy, when, and in what format.
The original Switch still gets a trickle in the same list — Sacred 2 Remaster, Scott Pilgrim EX, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse — but make no mistake about which console this roundup is really selling. Every marquee name here is a Switch 2 edition. So the question for handheld players this fall isn’t whether the ports will come. It’s whether your storage plan survives contact with them.
The Storage Tax: Planning Around Elden Ring and Oblivion
Pre-ordering one heavy hitter is easy. Pre-ordering four in six weeks is a library management project. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition lands August 28 — the long-delayed port whose Switch 2 future hangs on Epic’s roadmap — Oblivion Remastered arrives August 11; Lies of P: Complete Edition follows October 2; Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen closes the run October 9. On other platforms, these are installs measured in tens of gigabytes — Elden Ring alone routinely clears 45GB before patches. Against the Switch 2’s 256GB internal drive, a fully digital fall means making peace with the delete-and-redownload dance.
That’s why the physical pre-orders in this roundup deserve a second look. A cartridge doesn’t shrink an install, but it does give you an offline fallback, resale value, and a reason to clear shelf space instead of SSD space. If you’re planning to grab more than two of these, Switch 2 games on Amazon are worth locking in early — collector editions like the Onimusha Steelbook and the Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Dagdan Collection have a habit of vanishing.
Performance is the other open question, and Nintendo hasn’t published frame-rate targets for any of these Switch 2 builds. What we can say from the PC side: FromSoftware’s Easy Anti-Cheat-protected games have had frame-pacing wobbles even on modestly powerful rigs, and Dragon’s Dogma 2’s town crowds are CPU hogs on desktop hardware. Expect the Switch 2 versions to chase a stable 30 FPS in handheld mode rather than 60 — and treat any pre-order as a commitment to the game, not to a performance promise.
New Arrivals Worth Watching: TMNT, Dread Delusion, and the 2027 Wildcards
The genuinely new listings are the most intriguing part of the update. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Legendary Edition hits Switch 2 on October 27 — a run-based co-op roguelike whose single-run pacing is arguably a better fit for handheld play than for a living-room session. The Legendary Edition tag implies the full DLC stack in one box, which for a co-op title means one cartridge carries the whole group’s content.
Dread Delusion is the sleeper here. The open-world dark fantasy RPG, built around a deliberately jagged, late-’90s renderer, is coming to Switch 2 in 2027. That low-fi aesthetic is a performance gift: lightweight assets mean long battery life and a stable frame rate — exactly what you want from a game designed to be played for hours in bed. Sektori, meanwhile, is a complete question mark: no date beyond 2027, no details in the listing. But a retail pre-order slot isn’t handed out for nothing — someone sees shelf life in it.
Around the edges, the undercard is quietly stacked for RPG loyalists: Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter — Sept 27 with save carryover — and the Trails from Zero / Azure double pack land in September, Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s Switch 2 Edition follows October 1, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Switch 2 Edition closes the year December 3. The advice for Switch 2 owners is simple: lock in the physical editions of the games you know you’ll replay — Elden Ring, Oblivion, the Xenoblade remasters — and keep your digital budget flexible for the 2027 surprises. The cartridge shelf is your SSD’s best friend, and Dread Delusion is why you leave one slot open.