[STEAM] Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Preorders Are Now Available, Release Date Confirmed

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Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available to preorder for Switch 2, and we now have a confirmed release date -

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. The upgraded release was announced

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last year and includes new armor sets and

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in addition to the base game and Shadow of the Erdtree expansion.

The new preorder listing confirms the Tarnished Edition will be priced at $79.99. However, it also confirms that the new edition only comes with a game-key card.

Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Preorders Now Live for Switch 2

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What’s Included in the Tarnished Edition:

• Full Base Game
• Full Shadow of the Erdtree Expansion
• 2 New Starting Classes: Heavy Knight and Knight of Ides
• 4 New Armor Sets
• 3 Customization Options for Torrent

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is living under. IGN wasn’t shy about lauding Elden Ring in

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, calling it a “new benchmark” for open world exploration and gratifying combat challenges. We had similar praise for the

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, which prompted enough acclaim to pick up

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as a DLC.

Even with the acclaim, an $80 price tag for this tentatively Switch 2-exclusive edition might seem shocking for a game that was released four years ago. It’s also unlikely that the game will run

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as it would on a PS5 Pro. Does console performance warrant different pricing? That’s a complicated question.

The price is most likely based on

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, which includes the base game and expansion, and is also currently $80. The new content included in the Tarnished Edition will reportedly be

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and other consoles at a later date. It makes sense for that to be a free update given this pricing history, but if it does end up being a paid DLC, it would be altogether more expensive than the Switch 2 version.



Blythe (she/her) is an Audience Development Coordinator at IGN who spends way too much time in character customization screens and tracking down collectibles.

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