'Batman: Arkham Collection' Leaked For Nintendo Switch

As reported at VGC over the weekend, it appears that a Batman: Arkham Collection is headed to Nintendo Switch. A listing has appeared on the French retailer WTT, which has the game - contents as yet unconfirmed - as costing 59.99 euros and with an August 31 release date. Both price and release date could, of course, merely be placeholders.

The listing - now removed - isn’t the first that WTT has published before it was supposed to. The same French retailer published the Switch’s port of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt before that ‘Complete Edition’ release was fully confirmed. So it’s fair to assume they’ve done a similar boo-boo here, pressing that gros bouton vert before the collection’s publishers, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, were ready.

Both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City were previously rereleased, remastered, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, in the Return to Arkham collection

A previous Return to Arkham collection for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One came out in 2016, including remastered versions of previous-console-gen hits Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. (The latter features in our greatest games of all time list.) A new collection followed in 2018 - The Arkham Collection for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One added 2015’s then-current-gen release Arkham Knight to the mix, serving as a cheap way to get all three of developer Rocksteady’s acclaimed games, plus their DLC, for the price of one. 

Exactly what this Switch version of the Arkham Collection is remains to be seen - but as it’s listed as the Collection rather than Return to Arkham, one presumes this is the three games, rather than the two that originally released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. And frankly, I am very into that. Replaying The Witcher 3 on Switch has been brilliant, over these past couple of years; and I am very up for my own return to Arkham on the Switch OLED. 

This Arkham set won’t be the only DC-related game we see in 2022, as the delayed Gotham Knights remains set - we believe, anyway - for a release this side of the summer. That one’s being developed at WB Games Montréal, makers of Batman: Arkham Origins and the Armoured Edition of Arkham City for Wii U. However, the forthcoming Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, in development at Rocksteady, has been shifted back to a 2023 release. Ya know, playing these classics on the move might just tide most of us over, just fine.