Those Monster Hunter Wilds on Switch 2 rumours refuse to go away, new datamined evidence adds fuel to the fire
Take a lance on me.
Do you have a sense of deja vu? Because dataminers believe they’ve discovered more evidence that Monster Hunter Wilds could be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 – a sentence we’ve already typed out here at Eurogamer in the year 2026.
That’s right, we’re back on familiar ground following the release of a massive update for Capcom’s latest action-RPG this week, in which the Japanese publisher unleashed a flood of new content into the game to tide us all over until the next big DLC drop comes (which we’re apparently going to hear more about in the summer).
As part of this big, final update, sleuths digging through the game‘s newly-updated code think that they have unearthed more evidence that the game has a Switch 2 version in the works (hat tip, VGC), in the form of a tutorial image depicting Switch 2 local multiplayer. The image was apparently hidden away in the files, and isn’t supposed to be seen in any current front-end version of the game, but is nestled neatly in the update files. Uh-oh!
This follows on from data strings found in the backend of Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4, in which a group of Chinese dataminers believe they found references to a Switch 2 port, including information about wireless multiplayer, graphical presets, and reportedly “300 detailed parameters across four platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox Series, and Switch 2”.
The latest Wilds update, though, removed these older text strings. The lord giveth, the lord taketh away, it seems. At least we know from these earlier leaks that a potential Switch 2 version of Wilds will contain “a shadow quality preset for the Switch 2’s docked ‘Graphics Mode’ that is higher than the PC’s ‘Very Low’ preset” and that, in docked mode, the “‘Graphics Mode’ outputs at 1080p”. Given the performance issues Wilds has suffered on PC to date, that’s pretty impressive. If it works.
Right now, there’s no formal word from Capcom that the game could be making the jump to Switch 2, but Capcom has long been a supporter of Nintendo’s platform: we’re even getting Resident Evil Requiem at launch on the handheld, and that runs on the same engine as Monster Hunter Wilds, so… stranger things have happened.
It’ll be nice for Monster Hunter Wilds to have a bit of a win: since it launched in February 2025, the game suffered review bombing, under-performing sales with a fall-off post-launch, and even contributed to a dip in Capcom’s share price. Here’s hoping that, with a second bite of the apple, Monster Hunter Wilds can rehabilitate its image to some degree.
Do you have a sense of deja vu? Because dataminers believe they’ve discovered more evidence that Monster Hunter Wilds could be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 – a sentence we’ve already typed out here at Eurogamer in the year 2026.
That’s right, we’re back on familiar ground following the release of a massive update for Capcom’s latest action-RPG this week, in which the Japanese publisher unleashed a flood of new content into the game to tide us all over until the next big DLC drop comes (which we’re apparently going to hear more about in the summer).
As part of this big, final update, sleuths digging through the game‘s newly-updated code think that they have unearthed more evidence that the game has a Switch 2 version in the works (hat tip, VGC), in the form of a tutorial image depicting Switch 2 local multiplayer. The image was apparently hidden away in the files, and isn’t supposed to be seen in any current front-end version of the game, but is nestled neatly in the update files. Uh-oh!
This follows on from data strings found in the backend of Monster Hunter Wilds Title Update 4, in which a group of Chinese dataminers believe they found references to a Switch 2 port, including information about wireless multiplayer, graphical presets, and reportedly “300 detailed parameters across four platforms: PS5, PC, Xbox Series, and Switch 2”.
The latest Wilds update, though, removed these older text strings. The lord giveth, the lord taketh away, it seems. At least we know from these earlier leaks that a potential Switch 2 version of Wilds will contain “a shadow quality preset for the Switch 2’s docked ‘Graphics Mode’ that is higher than the PC’s ‘Very Low’ preset” and that, in docked mode, the “‘Graphics Mode’ outputs at 1080p”. Given the performance issues Wilds has suffered on PC to date, that’s pretty impressive. If it works.
Right now, there’s no formal word from Capcom that the game could be making the jump to Switch 2, but Capcom has long been a supporter of Nintendo’s platform: we’re even getting Resident Evil Requiem at launch on the handheld, and that runs on the same engine as Monster Hunter Wilds, so… stranger things have happened.
It’ll be nice for Monster Hunter Wilds to have a bit of a win: since it launched in February 2025, the game suffered review bombing, under-performing sales with a fall-off post-launch, and even contributed to a dip in Capcom’s share price. Here’s hoping that, with a second bite of the apple, Monster Hunter Wilds can rehabilitate its image to some degree.
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