What the crowd rated

Elden Ring on Switch 2: do big games belong on a handheld?

Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 on 28 August, with Shadow of the Erdtree included. That puts a full open-world game on a handheld.

26%I have watched it but never played itQuestion 1

33%On a TV or monitor at homeQuestion 2

34%Playing it on the goQuestion 3

Question by question

Question 1Pick one

How much of Elden Ring have you played?

I have watched it but never played it26%184

I have never heard of it24%167

I played some of it19%133

I know the name only19%133

I finished it12%81

Question 2Pick one

Where would you rather play a big open-world game like this?

On a TV or monitor at home33%227

Not sure30%206

Both, depending on the day21%146

On a handheld I can carry17%119

Question 3Pick multiple

If you were deciding on this version, what would matter most? Pick up to 3.

Voters chose more than one answer, so these shares add up to more than 100%.

Playing it on the go34%239

Price where you live34%236

How much content is included32%222

How it runs in handheld mode28%195

Buying a game you already own again22%153

What other players say about this version21%144

Other (tell us)2%15

Who answered, and how we count itSampling, free-text handling and full methodology698

Verified humans

698

Every ballot is one World ID holder. No bots, no repeat voting, no weighting applied.

Margin at 95%

±3.7 pts

Sampling error for this many ballots. The crowd is self-selected, so this is not a representative panel.

Written-in answers

Summarised into themes by machine, then reviewed. Individual responses are never shown.

Aggregate results from verified voters. Free-text answers are summarised into themes; individual responses are kept private and never shown. A read-only record of what World ID holders expressed in our polls — not VoxPop predictions, and not financial advice.

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