Almost a twelvemonth aft it came to each different platform, Skyrim: Anniversary Edition surprise-launched connected the Nintendo Switch today. The newest mentation of the beloved 2011 open-world RPG includes a clump of DLC, mod content, and fishing. It’s besides $70 connected Nintendo’s handheld hybrid. Gotham Knights and Callisto Protocol aren’t coming to Switch, but seemingly the terms constituent is, astatine slightest successful this 1 unusual instance.

Bethesda has released a ton of ports and updates to The Elder Scrolls V. Since it primitively released connected Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, it’s besides travel to each caller procreation of consoles, arsenic good arsenic phones, streaming platforms, and of course, the Nintendo Switch. Last year, the steadfast unveiled the caller $50 Anniversary Edition, not to beryllium confused with the existing Special Edition. The main quality was that it had much mod contented and fishing. Players could wage $20 to upgrade their existing Special Editions. Except connected Switch.

The 2017 mentation connected Nintendo’s handheld that included a special Breath of the Wild costume wasn’t upgradable until today. Nintendo announced the astonishment quality in a tweet, but it didn’t instrumentality agelong for radical to commencement balking astatine the price:

While Switch games are often priced astatine a premium, Skyrim: Anniversary Edition is the archetypal 1 that’s not an anthology, deluxe edition, oregon DLC bundle to interruption the $60 barrier. Games are present regularly doing this connected PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, presumably due to the fact that blockbuster accumulation costs astir treble each console cycle. The Switch is 5 years aged though, and Skyrim is adjacent older.

Plus, the Anniversary Edition is lone $50 connected PS5 and Xbox Series X/S wherever the new-gen upgrades were free. And it’s thing to bash with the outgo of Switch SD cards either, since the $70 terms is for the integer download. (People who bash already ain Skyrim on Switch tin now, similar their PlayStation and Xbox brethren, upgrade to the Anniversary Edition for $20.)

My lone guess? The regular mentation of Skyrim is inactive priced astatine $60 connected Switch, and alternatively of reducing that terms by $10, Bethesda decided to conscionable adhd it connected to the caller merchantability price. That’s each speculation of course. As you whitethorn person guessed if you’ve been astir these parts long, Bethesda did not respond to a petition for comment.