Hogwarts Legacy for the Nintendo Switch has been delayed

The studio may be taking the extra development time to achieve more stability for the less powerful and older generation console. The Switch has time and again struggled to run some of the larger open-world titles like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Although, surprisingly enough, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom performed extremely well on the aging console.

Given the magnitude of the open world featured in Hogwarts Legacy, it will be an amazing feat for Avalanche to have the game run smoothly on the Switch. The Witcher 3, Nier Automata, and No Man's Sky are some of the ports that have managed to run well on the handheld.

Hogwarts Legacy was released earlier this year and has been one of the best-selling titles of 2023. As of May, the game has sold 15 million copies and earned over $1 billion in revenue. The title reached a peak of 489,000 concurrent players on Steam which ranks the second-highest player count for a single-player game behind Cyberpunk 2077.

Hogwarts Legacy has also been well-received by critics and fans alike. The game received generally favorable reviews on all platforms.

It will be interesting to see how well the title performs on the Nintendo Switch. If the game lives up to the performance of the PC and console versions, it will surely sell well on the handheld. However, if it performs below expectations, fans may review bomb the title similar to other recent AAA games that have encountered performance and technical issues.

Hogwarts Legacy is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, and will be released on the Nintendo Switch on November 14, 2023.