While Stellar Blade has recently made its way on to PC after spending some time as a PS5 exclusive, it looks like developer Shift Up isn’t quite resting on its laurels. According to Korean publication PlayForum, the studio is now working on a Nintendo Switch 2 port of the action game.
While Shift Up itself is yet to make any official announcement about Stellar Blade coming to the Switch 2, the report indicates that the studio has gotten its hands on a development kit for Nintendo’s latest console, and has already started working on a port. The development kit includes unpublished APIs, software that allows a developer to test their games, as well as debugging tools that can be used to further optimise a title to run on the console.
According to the report, the in-development version of Stellar Blade will seemingly tone down the game’s visuals quite a bit in order to get it running smoothly on the hybrid handheld/home console. The title will also quite likely make use of Nvidia’s DLSS technology to run on the Switch 2. For context, the PC version of Stellar Blade features support for both DLSS 4, as well as AMD’s FSR 3 technologies.
The studio had previously also confirmed that it had begun work on a sequel to Stellar Blade. While no official release date has been given, the studio is seemingly targetting 2026 as the release window for Stellar Blade 2. Along with this, Shift Up is also working on a brand new game, dubbed Project Witches, for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Stellar Blade has proven to be incredibly successful for Shift Up, with the studio having revealed earlier this week that it had sold 3 million copies across the PC and PS5 release of the game. The PC version was released just earlier this month, and has seemingly already contributed quite a bit to the sales figure.
Back in February, Shift Up revealed through an earnings report that it had made roughly $43.2 million from Stellar Blade alone over the previous year. All in all, the studio saw roughly $151.4 million in revenue, which was a 30.4 percent increase over its previous year. Out of this, $102.3 million were profits, which were up 33.8 percent year-over-year. Net profits had also gone up, coming in at $98.2 million.
Out of the revenue made, around $105.4 million was cited as coming from gacha game Goddess of Victory: Nikke, accounting for 69.6 percent of total revenue. At the time, Stellar Blade’s PC release wasn’t out yet, and the studio was expecting it to contribute quite heavily to the revenue in the future as well.
Stellar Blade is available on PC and PS5. For more details, check out our review of the original PS5 release, where we gave it a score of 8 out of 10. In our review, we praised the in-depth combat and interesting setting thanks to captivating lore and good visual aesthetics, while criticising its spotty writing and boring side quests.
