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Rumor: Doom: The Dark Ages Is Coming To Switch 2, But Nintendo Doesn’t Want You To Know (Yet)

January 27, 2025 by Ryan Parreno

Honestly, that’s perfectly reasonable for Nintendo.

Last week, eXtas1s claimed there would be a huge slate of Microsoft Gaming titles coming to Nintendo’s Switch 2. Today, they added another game, and an explanation.

As shared on the GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit by user MXHombre123, Doom: The Dark Ages is also coming to Nintendo’s upcoming mighty handheld. It has already been announced for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam, and Game Pass, to be releasing on May 15, 2025.

They went on to say that the game is in full development for the Switch 2, but didn’t confirm that it would also make it to the May release date. Furthermore, eXtas1s said that there’s a reason Microsoft hasn’t announced their games for the console yet.

If eXtas1s is correct, Nintendo wants to have control over how games are announced for the Switch 2. For a game to be announced beforehand, they need to get special permission from Nintendo.

We did speculate when eXtas1s first dropped their rumor last week that Microsoft would also reveal that some, if not all the games that they revealed in the Xbox Developer Direct. It seems that eXtas1s was also unsure and so they decided to wait and see what Microsoft would do as well.

If eXtas1s’s earlier claims are true, we are getting no less than Starfield and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, high performance games that push even gaming PCs, on Nintendo’s upcoming platform. It would certainly be curious if Nintendo gets a port of Starfield before the PlayStation 5 does, but we also have to imagine Bethesda would have had to hire a port specialist like Virtuos, and there will definitely be graphical and performance compromises to make it happen.

Still, given how Microsoft did not hesitate to confirm that all the Xbox Developer Direct games were also coming to the PlayStation 5, it seems likely that they would also announce if their games were coming to the Switch 2 with no hesitation. So it does make sense that it was Nintendo holding those announcements back.

We won’t rehash the arguments about leaks and game companies wanting control over their official announcements. Of course, for the sake of the developers who make the games, and the people whose job is to market and generate hype for them, we should let game companies control how they announce their games.

This doesn’t mean their strategies for marketing are beyond criticism, but leaking game announcements out of spite is not a reasonable response if you think they did it wrong. With all that said, we don’t want Hideki Kamiya to be chewing us out, so here’s your reminder that these are all still rumors and we shouldn’t be expecting rumors to be true, when the companies never made those promises.

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