{"id":21283,"date":"2025-04-15T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21283\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:37:12","slug":"marathon-isnt-currently-planned-for-switch-2-unsurprisingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21283\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Isn&#8217;t Currently Planned For Switch 2, Unsurprisingly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <a class=\"sub-button external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube808k<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox\/halo\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halo<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/destiny_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Destiny<\/a><\/strong> and ex-Microsoft developer Bungie revealed its new extraction-shooter <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/marathon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon<\/a><\/strong> to the world last week and it seems there has already been some questions about the possibility of a Switch 2 release.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202504\/39409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese publication Famitsu<\/a> asked about the chances of this upcoming game &#8211; due out this September &#8211; coming to Nintendo&#8217;s &#8220;next-generation game hardware&#8221; and it&#8217;s currently something the team has no plans for right now but will consider in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bungie director Joseph Ziegler:<\/strong> &#8220;At the moment we don&#8217;t have any plans to add additional compatible hardware, but we will consider it in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2022\/01\/sony-buys-ex-halo-destiny-developer-bungie-for-usd3-6-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bungie is now owned by Sony<\/a>, its games like Destiny are still available (and supported) across multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<p>During the Switch generation, the original hybrid system played host to team-based first-person shooters like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/apex_legends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apex Legends<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/overwatch_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overwatch 2<\/a>, so it would be nice to see this trend continue in some way or form on the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Marathon launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on <strong>23rd September 2025<\/strong>, with a closed alpha taking place soon.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see a game like Marathon on the Switch 2? Would you be interested in this game on Nintendo&#8217;s new system? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202504\/39409\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202504\/39409\" target=\"_blank\">famitsu.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/famiboards.com\/threads\/bungie-says-they-will-consider-a-nintendo-switch-2-version-of-marathon-in-the-future.13337\/#post-1744651\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/famiboards.com\/threads\/bungie-says-they-will-consider-a-nintendo-switch-2-version-of-marathon-in-the-future.13337\/#post-1744651\" target=\"_blank\">famiboards.com<\/a>, <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/contents\/47462-bungie-has-no-current-plans-for-marathon-on-switch-2-but-will-consider-it-in-the\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/contents\/47462-bungie-has-no-current-plans-for-marathon-on-switch-2-but-will-consider-it-in-the\" target=\"_blank\">gonintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744183269_17_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube808k Halo, Destiny and ex-Microsoft developer Bungie revealed its new extraction-shooter Marathon to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6958,12,342,341,1421,53,16,15,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-21283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bungie","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-playstation","11":"tag-sony","12":"tag-switch-2","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-upcoming-releases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114340603046774830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}