Diablo 4 Switch 2 port allegedly in the works for a match made in heaven

While current players get ready to enjoy Diablo 4 Season 7 and enjoy the addition of Witch Doctor powers without a Witch Doctor class, Blizzard is reportedly working on a Diablo 4 Switch 2 port to take full advantage of Nintendo’s finally-announced next-gen handheld.

With the new Nintendo handheld/console hybrid bringing massively upgraded performance, magnetic joy-con and more, the new system should have more than enough power to run some form of Diablo 4. After all, the game does run on a base Xbox One.

Diablo 4 Switch 2 port

According to eXputer reporter and YouTuber eXtas1s, via VGC, a Nintendo Switch 2 port of the latest Diablo game is in the works at Blizzard. Alongside adding credence to the leaks of ports for Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Microsoft Flight Simulator, a number of other titles are also allegedly in the works.

“According to what I’ve been told, Diablo 4 is already in the works for Nintendo Switch 2,” the reporter claimed. “So it wouldn’t be surprising at all if Diablo 4 was released in 2025 on Switch 2.”

The Diablo series has already been massively successful on the Nintendo Switch platform with both Diablo 3 and Diablo 2 Resurrected seeing huge sales and player counts on the handheld, it would make perfect sense to bring the fourth game to the Nintendo’s new handheld.

With the Nintendo Switch 2 primed to be as computationally powerful as a PS4 Pro—albeit with support with more modern rendering features—there’s no worry that the latest Diablo game would struggle to run on the new handheld.

An offline mode?

If Diablo 4 does come to the new Nintendo handheld, there’s hope that Blizzard will finally add an offline mode to the game to support the machine. After all, there’s nothing more annoying in Diablo 2 Resurrected than having to restart the game after putting your online character in standby for 30 seconds.

However, Blizzard has not announced an offline mode for Diablo 4 at the time of writing, and considering the game’s penchant for online seasons and microtransaction content it seems unlikely that’ll happen. However, we can always hope.

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