Ubisoft has announced a release date for Star Wars Outlaws on Nintendo Switch 2, as a popular character returns for the game’s second DLC.
Star Wars Outlaws may have underperformed for Ubisoft but it’s still one of the better Star Wars games of recent years, even if it isn’t quite up there with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
The open world action adventure is getting a second chance on the Nintendo Switch 2, and now Ubisoft has confirmed the port will be released on September 4, 2025.
The release date was revealed at Star Wars Celebration, alongside some footage of the Switch 2 version and, as you’d expect from a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S title, it looks like the visuals have been knocked down a few notches to get it running on the handheld.
The footage hasn’t been uploaded to Ubisoft’s official channels yet but it was shown during a livestream, so the video quality isn’t as good as it should be. Even so, it doesn’t look terrible, considering Outlaws is one of the better looking current gen games of recent years.
Other current gen games confirmed for the Switch 2 include Split Fiction, Borderlands 4, Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, and Two Point Museum. Little is known about Borderlands 4 yet, but Outlaws is still probably the most technically advanced of these titles.
Elsewhere at the event, Ubisoft debuted footage from Star Wars Outlaws’ second DLC, A Pirate’s Fortune, which is set to be released on May 15.
As shown in the trailer, Kay and Nix team up with pirate Hondo Ohnaka, a character from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels voiced by Jim Cummings. The pair will face off against Stinger Tash and her Rokana Raiders, as you infiltrate the Khepi Tomb. (Yes, that is a real sentence that makes sense if you’re a Star Wars fan.)
Speaking of Star Wars nerdiness, at the 40 second mark in the trailer you can see what looks very much like the Stinger Mantis starship from EA’s Star Wars Jedi games. There’s meant to be 17 year gap between the two games, in terms of Star Wars chronology, and given the bad guy is (hilariously) called Stinger Tash, it may well be she is the original owner.
If so that’ll be a rare example of something being invented in a Star Wars game created by one third party publisher and then reused in another.
The DLC will also include cosmetic items inspired by the TV series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, including an outfit for Nix, a trophy for the speeder, and a trinket for both the speeder and the Trailblazer.
A Pirate’s Fortune is the second of two planned story expansions for Star Wars Outlaws. The first, Wild Card, was released in November and starred Lando Calrissian.
If you haven’t played Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft has released a free demo across Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC where you can explore Tatooine for up to three hours. However, you can’t transfer your save progress from the demo to the actual game.
A new strategy game titled Star Wars Zero Company, developed by Respawn and Bit Reactor, is also set to be showcased at Star Wars Celebration on Saturday, April 19.
There’s no indication any other video games will be featured though, so who knows what’s happened to Quantic Dream’s Star Wars Eclipse.
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