Stellar Blade Devs Discuss Blood Rain Switch 2 Port Possibilities

Stellar Blade Devs Admit Switch 2 Port Will "Definitely Help For The Sequel" Shift Up Published Sep 1, 2026, 7:01 AM EDT Sam Woods is TheGamer’s Senior Reporter. He’s been in games journalism since 2020 and has undertaken a variety of roles in that time. These have included roles such as SEO Editor, Managing Editor at DualShockers, and Global Head of Gaming, and he's also been seen on the BBC. He was promoted to the Senior Reporter position in 2025 following a series of high-quality reports and exclusives for TheGamer. Since 2020, Sam has written over 2,500 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the stories of how indie games came to be, and spoken to players about what really makes them tick. He’s also interviewed some of the world’s biggest musical artists to find out how the medium has inspired their work, and TV and Film actors about their roles in video game adaptations. He even hosted a PAX panel in 2021 and made a documentary in 2024 surrounding the creation of a Disney game. Alongside this, Sam focuses on breaking news. He got the scoop on Perfect Dark’s cancellation, got context around some AI drama, and revealed how Lady Dimitrescu’s actress would love to step back into the character’s giant shoes. These articles have been picked up by the biggest gaming sites, including IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. He also loves to dive into the numbers behind the games. Sam’s journey in games journalism has taken him all over the world. He’s covered Gamescom in Germany, Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan, each on more than one occasion. He’s been learning Japanese since 2024 with the intention of identifying and translating Japanese-language news and bringing it to English-language audiences first, something he’s done countless times. Sam’s first review was 2020’s Battletoads reboot, and he’s since reviewed games in The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokemon franchises. Sign in to your TheGamer account Stellar Blade: Blood Rain was one of the biggest surprises from 2026's Summer Game Fest. While full of controversy surrounding its new protagonist, Evie, the follow-up to Shift Up's 2024 smash hit was a welcome announcement. Before Blood Rain's release, a Switch 2 port of the original Stellar Blade is on the cards, and we got to sit down with DongKi Lee, CTO of Shift Up and Stellar Blade Technical Director, to discuss it. Of course, while we were there, we had to find out whether there was any chance the sequel might hit Nintendo's latest platform. A Stellar Blade: Blood Rain Switch Port Doesn't Seem Impossible I came away with mixed feelings from my hands-on preview of Stellar Blade's Nintendo Switch 2 port. It's impressive, like Elden Ring, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, and Resident Evil Requiem before it, but some elements of the visuals suffer. Undeterred by these issues and the fact that PR told me I couldn't dive too deep into Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, I had to try to find out if a Switch 2 version of the sequel was in the studio's plans. "Hypothetically," I posed, "could the lessons you learned from porting Stellar Blade to the Switch 2 be used in other games? Perhaps a giant sequel you have coming out in the future?" "Expanding to a new platform will always help," Lee tells me. "The experience that the dev team will gain, for example, like PlayStation, we learned a lot, and then PC and now Switch 2. Yes, that will always help, and definitely for the sequel as well." The technical director didn't just stop at talking about Blood Rain either. "It will be helpful for other projects we develop, I guess, most certainly, because it is given that you will learn something new every time you are dealing with a new device or new platform," he tells me. Now, these words are far from confirmation that Stellar Blade: Blood Rain will be coming to the Switch 2, but it certainly seems that Lee and his team are at least considering it. Edouard Akopcan, head of publishing at Shift Up, had previously tried to skirt the question, asking, "Could GTA 6 be ported to the Switch 2?" Lee's comments to TheGamer feel more inspiring than that. Our full interview with Lee will be available on TheGamer tomorrow. Systems Released April 26, 2024 ESRB M for Mature Developer(s) Shift Up Publisher(s) Sony Interactive Entertainment Engine Unreal Engine 4 Genre(s) Action RPG