BODY: The boss who haunted Granblue Fantasy: Relink is about to step into the ring. Cygames has announced that "Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising" (GBVSR) will receive its next major update, Ver 2.60, on September 17, 2026 — and it brings one of the franchise's most demanding characters to the fighting game roster.
The headline addition is Id, the volatile draph swordsman who served as a centerpiece antagonist in the action-RPG GRANBLUE FANTASY: Relink. Wielding the colossal blade Galleon, Id is the kind of high-risk, high-reward archetype that fighting-game players tend to obsess over, and his arrival continues GBVSR's steady stream of DLC reinforcements drawn from across the wider Granblue universe.
Just as significant is the platform news: a Nintendo Switch 2 version of GBVSR will release the very same day, September 17. That timing matters. Bringing a rollback-netcode fighter to Nintendo's new hardware on launch-parity with a content drop signals that Cygames sees Switch 2 as a serious home for competitive play, not an afterthought port.
Cygames has not yet detailed Id's full move set, pricing, or whether he ships as part of an existing season pass, but expect a character trailer and patch notes to surface as the date approaches.
The insider take
From Tokyo, the Switch 2 timing is the real story. Japanese arcade and console fighting-game culture has long been fragmented across platforms, and a same-day launch tied to a featured character is Cygames betting that Switch 2's install base can sustain a dedicated GBVSR community. Pulling Id specifically — a Relink villain rather than a mainline gacha favorite — also shows how aggressively Cygames is now treating Granblue as a unified, cross-genre IP, funneling players between its mobile, action, and fighting titles.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).