"Pillars of Eternity 2: Dead Fire" was released in 2018, the Switch version was originally scheduled to be released with the Christmas holiday in 2018, but after several ticket hopping delays, in 2022 we have not been able to see it, many people speculate that its Switch version may have been canceled, and now it is officially confirmed that it is really gone.
Publisher Versus Evil has announced that Pillars of Eternity 2: DeadFire will cancel the Switch release. The news was posted on the company's official Discord channel, where a Versus Evil staff member confirmed: "Unfortunately, after much deliberation, we have decided not to proceed with the Nintendo Switch version of Pillars of Eternity II: DeadFire". But he did not mention what the reason was.
Former Obsidian production director Alec Frey once pointed out that trying to port Pillars of Eternity 2: DeadFire to the console was tedious. And for Switch, all of these development issues are "multiplied." Maybe the studio felt it was time-consuming, laborious, and unprofitable, leading to the project eventually being canceled.