{"id":1657,"date":"2025-08-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:43:25","slug":"developers-reportedly-still-struggling-to-get-switch-2-dev-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/developers-reportedly-still-struggling-to-get-switch-2-dev-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers Reportedly Still Struggling To Get Switch 2 Dev Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;They would love to do Switch 2 versions. They can\u2019t get the hardware.&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re almost three months on from the Nintendo Switch 2&#8217;s release, and while we have plenty of third-party games to come on the newer hybrid console, many developers say that they&#8217;re still having issues getting hold of dev kits.<\/p>\n<p>This comes from the folks at Digital Foundry in response to a question from a listener during <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N0SW7R5H5wY&amp;t=500s&amp;ab_channel=DigitalFoundry\">this week&#8217;s DF Direct<\/a> (timestamped, 8:20). Part of the question focuses on Switch 2 kits, particularly pointing out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ninja_gaiden_ragebound\">Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound<\/a>, which runs at 30fps on the newer console (though it doesn&#8217;t have a specific Switch 2 version either): &#8220;Do you think Nintendo are regretting not sharing the dev kits wider, sooner?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/developers-reportedly-still-struggling-to-get-switch-2-dev-kits\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They would love to do Switch 2 versions. They can\u2019t get the hardware.&#8221;. We&#8217;re almost three months on from the Nintendo Switch 2&#8217;s release, and while we have plenty of third-party games to come on the newer hybrid console, many developers say that they&#8217;re still having issues getting hold of dev kits. This comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}