Switch 2 ports from the September Direct: buy on PC instead?

Nintendo's Direct on 9 September 2026 spent a surprising amount of its runtime on games that PC owners finished years ago. Monster Hunter Wilds, The Witcher 3, three Resident Evil remakes, It Takes Two, Stellar Blade — all of them dated for Switch 2 between this month and early 2027.

Which puts anyone who owns both machines in an awkward spot. Most of these Switch 2 ports are arriving at full console price, and most of the same games sit on PC at deep, long-established discounts. This is a guide to which of them is worth the premium for portability, and which you should simply buy on the machine you already own.

The Switch 2 ports announced, and when they land

Working forward from the Direct, in date order: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered on 29 September, It Takes Two on 15 October, the Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes together on 16 October, Stellar Blade on 5 November, Monster Hunter Wilds on 4 December, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II at some point in 2027.

Nintendo also dated a run of things that are not ports at all — Metroid: Ravenous on 28 January 2027, Kirby and the World Beyond in spring 2027, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave on 17 September. Those are outside this argument. If you want them, there is no PC version to weigh them against.

The full Direct, uploaded by Nintendo of America. The port announcements are spread through it rather than grouped.

Monster Hunter Wilds is the one worth thinking hardest about

The Switch 2 version lands on 4 December with every title update Capcom has shipped since launch already folded in, plus something the other versions do not have: local co-op. That is not a cosmetic addition. Monster Hunter has been an online-only proposition on PC for two generations, and a version where two people hunt from one sofa is a genuinely different product.

Wilds' open regions are the reason the PC build is demanding — and the reason a handheld port was worth announcing. (Official Steam screenshot)

Set against that: Monster Hunter Wilds on PC has been discounting hard for most of 2026, and the expansion Capcom announced alongside the port, Ascendance, is slated for 2027 on every platform. If you buy the PC version now you are getting the same content the Switch 2 version ships with, at a fraction of the outlay, and you will be waiting for Ascendance either way. Check the live price on the game page before you decide — but the gap has been wide enough all year that portability and local co-op are the only arguments for the Switch 2 version.

The Switch 2 reveal, on Capcom's own Monster Hunter channel. Local co-op is the headline feature.

The Witcher 3 is a free upgrade on one platform and a full purchase on the other

This is the sharpest case on the list. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered arrives on 29 September, and on PC it is a free update for anyone who already owns the base game — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine have been folded in at no cost as well. On Switch 2 it is a purchase.

Eleven years old and still the reference point for open-world RPG design. (Official Steam screenshot)

The Switch 2 build does add things the PC version will not have: touchscreen controls and mouse controls, using the console's new mouse mode. CD Projekt also announced a new DLC, Songs of the Past, for 2027. But if you own The Witcher 3 on PC in any form, the remaster costs you nothing at the end of the month, and the game has spent years at some of the steepest discounts on the store. Buying it a second time to hold it in your hands is a want, not a deal. We went through the upgrade in more detail in our piece on the free remaster and the Game Pass exit.

Resident Evil and It Takes Two: the cheap end of the list

Capcom is putting the Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes on Switch 2 together on 16 October. All three are among the most aggressively discounted games on PC — Resident Evil 4 in particular has been sitting near its floor for months, and the other two are usually cheaper still. Three games for the price of a fraction of one console port is not a close contest unless you specifically want them portable.

The RE4 remake is five years newer than the Switch-era Resident Evil ports and runs on a far better engine. (Official Steam screenshot)

It Takes Two on 15 October is the interesting exception. It is a couch co-op game that has never had a proper couch co-op console generation on Nintendo hardware, and its Friend's Pass system means one purchase covers two players. If the second player in your house does not have a PC, the Switch 2 version solves a problem the cheap PC copy does not. We covered how to price this sort of thing in our look at what pre-order data actually shows.

Stellar Blade and Kingdom Come II: wait

Stellar Blade only reached PC in June 2025, which is why its discount curve is still shallow. (Official Steam screenshot)

Stellar Blade arrives on Switch 2 on 5 November. It is the youngest game on this list by some distance, and its PC price has not had time to settle — the usual pattern is that a game's first serious discount comes a year or so after release, which we broke down in the Steam sales calendar. Neither version is a bargain yet. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is dated only to 2027 for Switch, with all released DLC included, so there is no decision to make for over a year — and the PC version has already dropped a long way from launch.

When a Switch 2 port is genuinely the better buy

Three conditions, and you want at least two of them. The port adds something the PC version does not have — local co-op on Wilds, mouse and touch on Witcher 3. The game suits short sessions, which is most of the Resident Evil list and none of Kingdom Come. And the second player, if there is one, does not have a PC.

If none of those apply, you are paying a portability premium on a game your existing machine runs better and cheaper. That is a legitimate thing to want. It is not a deal, and the Direct's framing should not talk you into treating it as one. If you are still deciding between the two machines in the first place, Steam Deck vs Switch 2 takes that apart properly.

Bottom line

Buy the Resident Evil remakes and It Takes Two on PC unless you need them portable or need the second controller. Take the free Witcher 3 remaster on PC and skip the Switch 2 purchase entirely. Wait on Stellar Blade on both platforms. Monster Hunter Wilds is the only one of these Switch 2 ports where the added feature — local co-op — is worth paying a real premium for, and only if you have someone to sit next to.