For years, Level-5 fans have watched the studio announce games, delay them, rename them, and delay them again. The Level 5 Vision 2026 Craftsmanship livestream on April 11 kept that tradition alive, but this time the news came with a notable platform shakeup: Inazuma Eleven RE, the remake of the original Inazuma Eleven game, is now heading to Nintendo Switch 2 and will no longer release on PlayStation 4.
The game was already confirmed for Nintendo Switch, PS5, and PC via Steam. Adding Switch 2 while removing PS4 suggests Level-5 is making a deliberate push toward current and next-generation hardware, rather than maintaining backward compatibility with Sony's older console.
What this means for the remake's release lineup
Here is the lowdown on where Inazuma Eleven RE will actually land when it releases later this year:
- Nintendo Switch
- Nintendo Switch 2 (newly added)
- PlayStation 5
- PC via Steam
- No PlayStation 4 (previously planned, now removed)
The game will support eight languages at launch: Japanese, English, Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. That multilingual rollout signals Level-5 is treating this as a proper global release, not just a Japan-first drop with a delayed localization.
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PS4 players who were planning to pick up Inazuma Eleven RE on their older hardware will need to upgrade to PS5 or switch platforms entirely to play the remake at launch.
Inazuma Eleven RE in context of Level-5's long development history
The Inazuma Eleven franchise has had a complicated road back to relevance. The game that eventually became Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road was first announced back in 2018 under the title Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin, targeting PS4, Switch, iOS, and Android. It changed names twice and finally launched on November 14 last year across Switch, Switch 2, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, after years of delays.
The Ares & Fabled Seed DLC, the second free major update for Victory Road, launched on January 21 of this year. So the series is at least active and receiving post-launch support while the remake is being prepared.
Inazuma Eleven RE is a separate project entirely, focusing on remaking the original game rather than continuing the Victory Road storyline. The franchise's manga adaptation by Tenya Yabuno, who drew the original Inazuma Eleven manga serialized in Monthly CoroCoro Comic from 2008 to 2011, launched in that same publication on November 14 alongside Victory Road.
DECAPOLICE also gets Switch 2, loses Switch and PS4
The platform changes did not stop at Inazuma Eleven RE. DECAPOLICE, Level-5's crime suspense RPG that has been in development since a 2023 target window, also received a platform update during the same livestream. The game now adds Switch 2 to its lineup but drops both the original Switch and PS4 versions.
DECAPOLICE will now release on:
- Nintendo Switch 2
- PlayStation 5
- PC via Steam
The game stars a rookie detective named Harvard Marks, assigned to a special investigation unit that uses a simulator called Decasim to copy reality. A mysterious hacker has corrupted the simulator's characters, and players investigate crime scenes, analyze evidence, and occasionally face suspects in tactical combat involving creatures called Crime Beasts. MARiA of GARNiDELiA performs the theme song "City of Love." A television anime is also set to premiere alongside the game in 2026.
What most players miss in this announcement is the pattern: Level-5 is clearly drawing a hard line at last-generation hardware. Dropping PS4 and original Switch from DECAPOLICE while adding Switch 2 is a studio-wide signal, not just a one-off decision. Make sure to check out more:
