Diablo IV hits Nintendo Switch 2 on September 15 with both expansions included
Blizzard's Diablo IV is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on September 15, 2026, and it's bringing everything with it. The Age of Hatred Collection bundles the base game alongside both major expansions — Vessel of Hatred and Lord of Hatred — at a standard $69.99 / £62.99 price. That's a lot of dungeon-crawling content for a handheld debut, assuming you're comfortable with how the physical edition works.
The collection
The Age of Hatred Collection is not a stripped-down port. Vessel of Hatred and Lord of Hatred each add new character classes, dungeons, large new regions, and gameplay mechanics that substantially extend the base game. At $69.99, it matches the price of other full-price Switch 2 releases like Cyberpunk 2077, so Blizzard isn't positioning this as a budget catch-up title.
The announcement is expected at BlizzCon's opening ceremony on September 12 — three days before launch. Pre-orders are reportedly set to go live the same day, per ResetEra, which narrows the release date down from an earlier "September 15 or 18" window floated by the same leaker.
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The cartridge catch
The physical edition ships as a code-in-box — there's no game cartridge inside. You buy the box, get a download code, and the game lives in your Switch 2's storage or on a microSD card. This mirrors what Baldur's Gate 3 and Final Fantasy VII Remake did on Switch 2, and it follows a cost-efficiency pattern Blizzard is clearly comfortable with for hybrid console ports, as noted by GamesRadar.
The practical trade-off: no second-hand resale value, and no lending the game to a friend. If you're buying physical specifically to resell later, this isn't that.
What's still unclear
No pre-order pages were live on Amazon US or Amazon UK as of mid-August, leaving a tight retail window before launch. Whether the Switch 2 version will keep pace with seasonal content updates on PC and console is also unconfirmed — live-service games on portable hardware have historically lagged behind their home-console counterparts on that front.
Worth watching: if BlizzCon September 12 is the announcement date, expect pre-order links to follow within hours.
