A new report suggests that Assassin’s Creed Shadows may be headed to Nintendo’s upcoming Switch 2 console on December 5, 2025. The potential release date comes via a leak surfaced by Dealabs and corroborated by earlier listings from a French retailer, which briefly featured the game’s Switch 2 version before being taken down.
According to the listing, Assassin’s Creed Shadows will be available both digitally and in physical form, though the boxed edition reportedly won’t include a full cartridge. Instead, it will come as a “Game Key Card,” which requires players to download the title online—a format that has stirred some frustration among collectors and players who prefer fully physical copies. Ubisoft previously defended this approach with its other large-scale release, Star Wars Outlaws, citing technical limitations with cartridge storage and slower data transfer speeds compared to digital solutions.
The leaked price for the Switch 2 version is listed at around 50 euros, roughly equivalent to $50 USD. That’s noticeably lower than the standard $70 price on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, where Assassin’s Creed Shadows debuted earlier this year. However, the Switch 2 edition appears to be the standard version, not the Gold Edition that included a Season Pass for Star Wars Outlaws.
Hints about the game’s arrival on Nintendo hardware have been circulating for months. Earlier in 2025, the European ratings board PEGI briefly listed Assassin’s Creed Shadows for a Nintendo system, adding weight to speculation that Ubisoft was preparing a version optimized for the company’s next-generation console. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot also mentioned in an interview that “new versions” of the game would be coming to “other machines,” a statement many took as confirmation of a Switch 2 release.
If accurate, this would mark the first time a mainline Assassin’s Creed title launches on a Nintendo platform with graphical and performance parity close to other consoles, made possible by the rumored hardware improvements of the Switch 2. The game, set in feudal Japan, has been praised for its detailed world design and dual protagonists—Naoe, a shinobi assassin, and Yasuke, a samurai—bringing a new dynamic to the series’ stealth-action formula.
Nintendo and Ubisoft have yet to officially comment on the leak, but the timing aligns with the Switch 2’s expected launch window and Ubisoft’s history of supporting new Nintendo hardware early in its lifecycle. If the December 5 date holds, Assassin’s Creed Shadows could become one of the Switch 2’s major third-party titles at launch, following the tradition of Ubisoft’s close collaboration with Nintendo seen in games like Mario + Rabbids and Assassin’s Creed III Remastered.
