Apex Legends release for Nintendo Switch delayed EARespawn Entertainment has announced that they are delaying the official release of Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch, after announcing their launch on Steam for PC players. The news that Apex was coming to Switch was first shared during the EA Play Live event on June 18, where they revealed the next stages of the game\u2019s development. It finally put a host of rumors and leaks to bed since Apex\u2019s debut back in 2019, as players wanted to immediately take the Arena with them on-the-go shortly after launch. The news would have opened the game to expand its player count by millions, but Switch players will now have to wait a little longer after further delays were announced. Apex Legends Nintendo Switch release date Respawn confirmed that the new Switch port has been delayed until early 2021 after it was expected to arrive with the Steam version of the game. \u201cFor those who game on the Nintendo Switch, we\u2019re still hard at work on the port, but in order to do justice to the game and make it into the great experience Switch players deserve, our team needs more time,\u201d Apex Game Director Chad Grenier confirmed, on October 23. \u201cThis year has brought on unexpected new challenges, to put it mildly, and we don\u2019t want to rush anything out,\u201d the Respawn dev continued, \u201cSwitch owners can expect to get their hands on Apex Legends next year.\u201d While it is being delayed, he confirmed that it still arrive with all of the expected features, \u201cof course, when Apex Legends does launch on Switch, it\u2019ll come with support for cross-platform play, our latest seasonal content, and full feature parity with the other versions of the game.\u201d This won\u2019t be the first time a major battle royale comes to Nintendo Switch. EA and Apex Legends are going to compete against Epic Games and Fortnite for the many battle royale fans on the platform. The initial announcement was a longtime coming. Reports for a Nintendo Switch port have been around for about as long as Apex Legends has been released to the world. In a 2019 interview only months after Apex\u2019s release, Project lead at the time, Drew McCoy, said that the company knew a Nintendo port was on many people\u2019s wishlist. Since then, it\u2019s been a waiting game for Nintendo fans who have been waiting to get into the Arena. There were a lot of questions revolving around the technical limitations of the Switch that would be a hurdle for a port, but the developers are now committed to releasing it early in 2021. It\u2019s unclear what the download size for the Switch version will be, so stay tuned to Dexerto for all the latest information on the upcoming Apex Legends port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends release for Nintendo Switch delayed EARespawn Entertainment has announced that they are delaying the official release of Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch, after announcing their launch on Steam for PC players. The news that Apex was coming to Switch was first shared during the EA Play Live event on June 18, where they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}