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Find the key to survival in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, coming to Nintendo Switch on March 20th, 2025. This visually enhanced version of the epic sci-fi RPG features additional content – including brand new story elements!​

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REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fight for survival on a mysterious alien world and explore the planet with your own giant mech in the Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition game for the Nintendo Switch family of systems. Originally available on the Wii U system in 2015, the action RPG comes to Nintendo Switch with enhanced visuals, added story elements and more when it launches March 20, 2025.

Check out the trailer to learn more: https://youtu.be/meabXp-IFkM.

The year is 2054. Humans have fled Earth amid a destructive intergalactic war. As one of the survivors and a member of the New Los Angeles (NLA) colony, it's your mission to help build a new home on the sprawling, hostile planet of Mira. Explore this seamless open world across five otherworldly continents teeming with unknown creatures – some of which are epic in scale – and fight for the future of humanity.

Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition features your character at the center of the action in a standalone sci-fi story. Customize your avatar's looks and class to your liking and choose from a wide variety of options in a comprehensive battle system that's as deep as you want it to be. Once you have proven yourself to the BLADE organization, you can also unlock a powerful Skell: Your giant, customizable mech that's proficient in exploration and combat to assist you in your adventures across Mira.

While you go about the reconstruction effort, you'll get to know the people of NLA, help them with their problems, and build affinity with your party members to unlock quests that contain rare gear and other rewards to earn. Plus, join an online squad* and take on multiplayer-specific missions, including extra-challenging Global Nemesis Battles! You can even recruit the avatars of other players to your team in the main story.

There is even more to discover in this definitive version of the game. Just who is the mysterious hooded figure on the beach? You'll have to stay tuned to learn more…​

 

[Ulysses 31]

Good!

Hope it will have a limited/collector's edition!

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Whaaaat? Finally!

 

[MagiusNecros]

Gotta play the song

 

[GinSama]

OMG OMG OMG

Fucking yes!!!!!!

Yes, yes , yes !!!!

 

[Cramoss]

Finally!!!

 

[TidusYuna]

LETS GO!!!!!!

 

[LordCBH]

YES!!!!!

 

[808mate]

Finally!

 

[Mister Wolf]

Out of no where. Nintendo won't stop dropping fire.

 

[jshackles]

YYYYYEEEEESSSSS

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Out of fucking nowhere! Our prayers have been answered!

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt Danjin44

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

My #1 hope is they let you choose any party members for story missions instead of making Lin and Elma mandatory.

#2 is that they actually let you butcher and eat Tatsu

 

[Emedan]

NOOO SWITCH 2!!!

 

[Solarstrike]

Hopefully the city music can be changed?

 

[Ulysses 31]

My #1 hope is they let you choose any party members for story missions instead of making Lin and Elma mandatory.

You wot mate? It's ultimately Elma's story, of course she's gotta be part of it.

 

[Shaki12345]

Hopefully this time we can have an option to turn the music OFF. Listening to the same damn track over and over again while in New Los Angeles is one of the worst design decisions ever.

 

[rkofan87]

wtf holy shit lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gambit2483]

 

[Robb]

Wow, that was out of nowhere. Switch 2 sequel in the works maybe?

 

[Aldric]

They even fixed the faces!

 

[Mister Wolf]

My only wish with this definitive edition is that you guys stop trying to shoehorn X into the Xenoblade Trilogy.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I wonder if this will be a cross-gen release for the Switch 2. If so I'll probably wait for a bit and pick it up there as my first game for the new system.

 

[Daniel_Mallorca1985]

 

[Krathoon]

Now, are they going to sell it at a lower price or full price?

This is Nintendo here.

 

[daclynk]

And i thought the switch was on its way out.

 

[Palabragrís]

I didn't like it when it originally released on WiiU. Maybe I'll give it a second chance now.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Now, are they going to sell it at a lower price or full price?

This is Nintendo here.

Look at what happened with Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Gat daaamn. Day one

 

[Ulysses 31]

They even fixed the faces!

Did they really?

Elma looks kinda off IMO.


Lin on the other hand...

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Holy freakin crap. What??!!

Day freakin one. Love this game. Can’t wait to see what all is new/tweaked in it. Suffice to say, It…probably has not aged as gracefully as the original Xenoblade.

Like Mario Maker and Captain Toad, it was one of the very few Wii U games where you really needed the GamePad next to you to constantly check as a second screen, while playing with the Pro Controller. Game requires… lots and lots of menu-ing.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Physical release confirmed for $59.99

 

[Krathoon]

Yeah. This is worth it to get it off the WiiU.

I forgot it was a WiiU title.

 

[kunonabi]

Hard to imagine it being definitive with censorship, cut features, and worse controls but whatever. Hopefully they at least add japanese voices. I'll probably pass and just watch the new story stuff since I probably cant transfer my old character anyway. Still the best Xenoblade possibly getting more appreciation is a good thing.

 

[KàIRóS]

Oh shit, day fucking one and you can all bet I'm spending another 400 hours on this baby, amazing game.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Damn the end of this trailer has some cool stuff already. Wonder how much they plan on adding.

Looks like there are TWO LAOS. Voice is the same(or very similar) and Lao on the ground wasn't talking. So real Lao and Mim Lao or two MIM Lao's.

 

[Euler007]

Now, are they going to sell it at a lower price or full price?

This is Nintendo here.

Just look at the pricing for Link's Awakening, you'll get your answer. I'm happy to be able to play it on modern system. But this looks like a great PS2 game visually. Maybe a bit better than Xenosaga 3.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Physical release confirmed for $59.99

Of course there is! The game being ported at all is the surprise. There is of course a physical version. It’s a first-party Nintendo game.

 

[Robb]

And i thought the switch was on its way out.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Holy shit! Day fucking one for the soundtrack alone.

Fav Xeno by a country mile

Where the fuck is Danjin44

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Of course there is! The game being ported at all is the surprise. There is of course a physical version. It’s a first-party Nintendo game.

Just adding info to the thread mate.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Now, are they going to sell it at a lower price or full price?

This is Nintendo here.

Just look at the pricing for Link's Awakening, you'll get your answer. I'm happy to be able to play it on modern system. But this looks like a great PS2 game visually. Maybe a bit better than Xenosaga 3.

The game is like 300 hours long, guys. It’s worth every penny and more than $60 compared to most games out there, even today.

I’m the first person to call out silly pricing for Nintendo ports, DKCR HD being $60 is *completely* ridiculous. Being a Wii game that was originally $50, that’s already been ported once, 11 years ago.

XCX is quite something different, though.

 

[rkofan87]

Now, are they going to sell it at a lower price or full price?

This is Nintendo here.

full price 60.

 

[Kataploom]

Hard to imagine it being definitive with censorship, cut features, and worse controls but whatever. Hopefully they at least add japanese voices. I'll probably pass and just watch the new story stuff since I probably cant transfer my old character anyway. Still the best Xenoblade possibly getting more appreciation is a good thing.

Censorship is what I hear a little bit in this case, as long as it's only cosmetics I won't care too much... I'll complain if they don't include Japanese voice, I'm not paying $60 to play a voice acted game with mute voices

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Just adding info to the thread mate.

I was literally just about to play it again, too. It’s been a while.

 

[Gambit2483]

Wow, that was out of nowhere. Switch 2 sequel in the works maybe?

Wouldn't be surprised if this is secretly also a Switch 2 launch title (or is upgraded when played on Switch 2)

 

[Deerock71]

NOOO SWITCH 2!!!

What I'm hoping this signals is backwards compatability.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Ok so now it really is just Yoshis Woolly World that needs to be brought over. One of the finest Wii U games deserves more than a down-port to 3DS. Make it happen, Nintendo! Yoshi needs some love, too.

 

[Dazraell]

Not the announcement I expected today, but fuck yes, I will take it

 

[Doczu]

Definitive Edition, ey? Is the boob slider in or once again scrubbed from the western release?