BlueTwelve Studio's indie hit Stray is available for PC, PlayStation and Xbox now. Will it ever come to Nintendo Switch? Here's what you need to know.
Released in July 2022, Stray has quickly taken over the gaming world by storm. A few months later, Stray even won the Best Indie and Best Debut Indie categories at the Game Awards.
We loved Stray, and so did everyone else. Everyone and their mom played the cute cat adventure, one of the loveliest and most wholesome games of 2022.
Well, at least if they had an PC, PS4 or PS5, since these were the only platforms Stray was playable on when the game was released. While PC and PlayStation gamers all had a good time with the cyberpunk cat game, Xbox and Switch players were left in the cold rain. However, there have been some good signs recently: Stray is now also available on Xbox, and a Switch version might be in development.
Stray: Switch Version Possibly Coming Soon
Though there is currently no version of Stray for Nintendo Switch, hope for a release on the Japanese publisher's handheld console is everything but lost. That is due to a small detail in the very first teaser trailer for the game, released in 2020.
At the end of the trailer, there is a message saying "Console exclusive for a limited time". Publisher Annapurna Interactive seems to have made a deal with Sony for time-limited exclusivity, which we see a lot of in gaming nowadays. The fact that Stray recently got released on Xbox consoles proved that the game can be released for other platforms as well, so also on Nintendo Switch, at least in theory.
One reoccurring reason that games get released for every platform except the Switch is that the Nintendo console doesn't have enough hardware power to run AAA games properly (as it happened for Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor, for example) – but the PC system requirements for Stray are quite low. So there is hope for a Stray Switch port that could run the game. Otherwise, several games have a so-called "Cloud Version" on the Switch, where the game is streamed to the console.
Considering the huge success of Stray, and the reputation of the Switch as a great home for indie games, we expect that all involved parties will try to get the cat game to the console. Maybe there will be some kind of special edition for the upcoming Switch 2...