{"id":75083,"date":"2026-04-09T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75083"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:38:36","slug":"elden-ring-tarnished-edition-preorder-listings-reveal-80-price-still-no-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75083","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Preorder Listings Reveal $80 Price, Still No Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available to preorder for Switch 2. The upgraded release was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-nintendo-switc-2\">during a Nintendo Direct<\/a> last year, and includes new armor sets and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-is-getting-two-new-classes-with-nintendo-switch-2-tarnished-edition\">starting classes<\/a> in addition to the base game and Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. <\/p>\n<p>The new preorder listing confirms the Tarnished Edition will be priced at $79.99. However, it also confirms the new edition only comes with a game-key card. <\/p>\n<p>Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Preorders Now Live for Switch 2<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"catalog-item-wrapper\" data-catalogid=\"9ca4e022-f577-471e-9d26-7b373012918b\" data-id=\"237521\">\n<section data-transform=\"catalog-item\" data-catalogid=\"9ca4e022-f577-471e-9d26-7b373012918b\" data-id=\"237521\" data-show-pricing=\"true\" data-highlighted=\"false\"><strong>What\u2019s Included in the Tarnished Edition: <\/strong>Full Base GameFull Shadow of the Erdtree Expansion 2 New Starting Classes: Heavy Knight and Knight of Ides4 New Armor Sets 3 Customization Options for Torrent <\/p>\n<p>I commend the size of the rock anyone who hasn\u2019t heard of FromSoftware\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-wins-game-of-the-year-at-the-23rd-annual-game-developer-choice-awards\">Game of the Year<\/a> is living under. IGN wasn\u2019t shy about lauding Elden Ring in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-review\">our 10\/10 review<\/a>, calling it a \u201cnew benchmark\u201d for open world exploration and gratifying combat challenges. We had similar praise for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-dlc-review\">Shadow of the Erdtree expansion<\/a>, which prompted enough acclaim to pick up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-game-awards-nomination-sparks-renewed-debate-among-fans\">yet another GOTY nomination<\/a> as a DLC. <\/p>\n<p>Even with the acclaim, an $80 price tag for this tentatively Switch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is now available to preorder for Switch 2. The upgraded release was announced during a Nintendo Direct last year, and includes new armor sets and starting classes in addition to the base game and Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. The new preorder listing confirms the Tarnished Edition will be priced at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":75085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75087,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75083\/revisions\/75087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}