Nintendo Switch Port Of Hogwarts Legacy Hexed With Additional Delays

Believe it or not, Hogwarts Legacy is actually a pretty cool game for anyone who enjoys open-world action titles. If you're a fan of The Witcher III, The Elder Scrolls, or similar open-world titles with RPG elements, it's a fun romp through a surprisingly large chunk of the unique Wizarding World setting.

Of course, to play it, you'll need a PlayStation or Xbox console, or a fairly meaty gaming PC. If you don't have any of those but you instead have a Nintendo Switch, you'll be able to pick up the game there when it launches in early summ... wait, sorry—it's actually been delayed again.

Unfortunately, the delay is pretty serious. Nearly four months in length, in fact. The new release date for the Nintendo Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy is November 14th of this year. Just in time for the holiday season, perhaps, but that's little consolation to Nintendo gamers that were eager to finally play the game. At least this delay means Switch gamers have time to finish Tears of the Kingdom.

We expect that there will be a concerted effort to preserve the look of the game as much as possible while maintaining a playable framerate on Nintendo's handheld. Hopefully the developers succeed, because a significant part of the game's value comes from its richly-detailed environments that accurately re-capture the wonder and mystique of the original Harry Potter movies.

If you've already played Hogwarts Legacy and are clamoring for more, you may have to wait quite some time. The game's publisher, WB Games, has announced that, even though it was the best-selling title—ever—for the publisher, it won't be receiving any DLC. That's sort-of refreshing, in a way, except that there's clearly gallons of cut content. Here's hoping for mods for the PC version.