Summary
Many of you will be playingBroken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforgedtoday as the remaster of the point-and-click adventure has arrived on all major platforms. Well, all but one major platform. With hours to go until release day, Revolution Software revealed that theNintendo Switchversion of the remaster isn’t quite ready, hitting it with a delay until October.
If you’ve been trying to download and play Shadows Of The Templar: Reforged on Switch today and you’ve come to the internet looking for an answer as to why it’s not there, this is it. Revolution sent out a press release on Wednesday afternoon revealing the Switch version of the game’s release had been pushed to October at the last minute. An exact release date for the Switch version has not been provided, just a vague October release window for a game that was supposed to be here today.
As for why exactly the Switch version won’t be available for at least another 12 days, the Broken Sword team cited wanting to ensure “the quality of play remains equally high across all versions of the game”. Definitely fair enough, it’s just a shame that it took until less than 12 hours before the game’s arrival to realize that. It’s not out of the ordinary for this to happen. Almost exactly one year ago, the imminent launch ofWrestleQuestwas delayed on all platforms with even less time to go until its release.
You’ll Have To Wait Until October To Play Broken Sword On Switch
But It’s Available On All Other Major Platforms Today
If you planned on playing Shadows Of The Templar: Reforged on another platform, then you don’t have anything to worry about as itsPlayStation,Xbox, andPCversions have been released without issue. If you’ve opted to wait for the remaster to get a physical release, this also won’t concern you. The physical version of the Broken Sword remaster won’t be here until early 2025, by which point any issues with the Switch edition will have almost certainly been ironed out.
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged
WHERE TO PLAY
The classic multi-award winning adventure “Broken Sword - the Shadow of the Templars” returns with glorious 4K visuals and iconic remastered audio, pitching intrepid American George Stobbart and fearless journalist Nico Collard into a journey of perilous adventures and ancient conspiracies.
Revolution hasn’t provided specifics on why exactly the Switch version of its Broken Sword remaster isn’t on the same level as other platforms, but it’s more evidence that despite the Switch’s success,Nintendoneeds a new console. That will happen very soon withNintendo promising it will reveal news about its Switch successorbefore the end of the current financial year. Images leaked of what some have claimed to be a prototype of the Switch 2this week, but the validity of those images is yet to be verified.
