Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions already debuted worldwide on multiple platforms, but the competitive wizard game still lacked a Nintendo Switch version. After a little waiting, we finally have a release date for the Ni?ntendo console.

Quidditch Champions releases on Nintendo Switch on November 8, 2024. This is exactly two months after it launched for other platforms, including the ?PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Epic Games.

Fortunately, Switch owners who want to try the new Quidditch game won't have to wait much longer. The release schedule falls perfectly in line with Unbroken Studios' roadmap for Quidditch Champions in 2024. While a November launch means you could miss out on Halloween event rewards, there's still some good news, as things should be up and running?? before the winter event later this year.

Speaking of the roadmap, there's still more planned for Quidditch Champions later this year. This includes Season 1, a Hogwarts Legacy-themed event, a new game mode, and much more. As for what's already there, Quidditch Champions offers full cross-play and cross-progression support, so playing this on the go won't be a problem at all??.

On other platforms where the Harry Potter game is live, there's some positive sentiments floating about, but playercount numbers are a common concern among fans. Harry Potter is a major franchise, but the Quidditch Champions concurrent playercount on Steam hasn't been that impressive. According to SteamDB, its all-time peak hit 6,574 players, and at the time of writin?g, only 945 players were playing.

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions features a few game modes catering to bo?th competitive and beginn??er Wizards alike. Some will sharpen your skills in multiplayer showdowns, wh?ile others offer AI opponents for you to warm up on.

There are a total of four game modes in Quidditch Champions, and here’s everything you need to know?? about how each one works.

Quidditch Champions Campaign mode: every Cup and co-op option

This is the caree?r mode in the game that you can either play as a single-player campaign or co-op with a couple of friends. All the opponents in this game mode are AI or bots and the chapters that are prese?nt help you progress in your Quidditch career.

The chapter?s are known as Cup Mat?ches and there are four of them:

• The Weasley Burrow Garden Cup
• The Hogwarts House Quidditch Cup
• The Triwizard Schools Quidditch Cup
• The Quidditch World Cup

Multiplayer in Quidditch Champions: 3v3 matches with 6v6 on the way

This is the mode that most players would be interested in as it has ?the competitive edge where you can face real players in a 3v3 format.

The multiplayer mode is the ultimate test of your skills where you can choose a particular position or queue for “Any Position�and battle it out head-to-head in the different maps and pitches available.

Quidditch Champions 2024 roadmap has confirmed a 6v6 multiplayer mode is on the way. So, once that makes its way to the game, things will be a lot?? spicier in the multiplayer lobbies.

Quidditch Champions Exhibition Matches: AI opponents and learning the sport

The Exhibition Matches serve as a practice ground to get used to the in-game mechanics. You have the option to ??either go solo or as a group of friends and the opponents will be AI.

There will be options for choos??????????????????????????ing different teams that involve all the houses, different schools, or particular countries, and maps while fiddling with the difficulty options.

You can ?use the Exhibition Matches to improve team synergy and perhaps plan different strategies that will be useful in multiplayer matches. You can even plan different combos or ?pocket strats too, excluding the pressure of going against real players.

Open Practice in Quidditch Champions: Preparing for real races online

Unlike Exhibition Matches, Open Practice only allows you to go solo against bots. This game mode is the perfect ?playground for you to develop your skills for differ?ent roles. Consider this as solo drills before real matches.

In Open Practice, you can choose between differ?ent difficulty settings and also keep three Chasers in both teams, making it a proper 6v6 experience. This can prepare you for the upcoming 6v6 multiplayer mode later in 2024.

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions has begun with Season Zero but Un?broken Studios and the roadmap have a lot more planned for the rest of 2024.

The 2024 roadmap for Quidditch Champions looks promising. It will bring a slew of themed events for Halloween and Holidays as well as a brand-new Season later down the line. The devs are also planning for a new multiplayer? game mode, involving more than three players? in each team as well as a Nintendo Switch port.

Quidditch Champions Fall 2024 roadmap

Season 0: Quidditch Try Outs

The game kicked off at launch with Season 0 or Quidditch Try Outs and it's just the tip of the iceberg. During this time, you can complete the tracker and 50 rewards in total which include common currency such as Gold, Moonstones, and Winged Keys as well as a popular character Ron Weasley.

September: Hogwarts Legacy Themed Event

Hogwarts Legacy is one of the most popular games released by Warner Bros. in 2023. A well-known character from the game, Sebastian Sallow, is already present in Quidditch Champions as a cosmetic, so it makes more sense why WB would like to host a Hogwarts Legacy-themed event.

At the time of writing, there's no fu??rther info about how the event will turn out to be or?? what content will be coming over in September.

October: Halloween Event

In October, a Halloween event will be taking over, bri?nging in all the spookiness with hanging ??pumpkins, werewolves, Dementors (perhaps), ghosts, and more.

I am guessing Dementors will show up in the Halloween event because Harry was attacked by them in a Quidditch match in Prisoner of Azkaban. Since the game is about the sport itself, the devs could very well surprise us with this easter egg. Th?e Fall 2024 roadmap ends with this event and time for Winter to take over.

Quidditch Champions Winter 2024 roadmap

Season 1: Defense Against the Dark Arts

As soon as Quidditch Try Outs ends, Season 1 or Defense Against the Dark Arts will take over. This will be the first season of the game, so there will be plenty of new content to explore in the game. It's unclear whether the sea??sonal track will have 50 tiers or more. The exact date of the season is yet to be revealed by Unbroken Studios though.

Holidays at Hogwarts Event

While the exact dates are yet to be revealed, it's clear the Holidays event will take place in December. Holidays have always been a special time in the Harry Potter ??movies with all the festivities and memories, and? bring good vibes in general.

Yule Ball Event

Yule Ball will be the final event fo??r 2024 an?d it's also set to take place in winter.

Nintendo Switch Port and 6v6 PvP mode

WB is planning to release the Nintendo Switch version of Quidditch Champions along with a 6v6 PvP mode in 2024. The devs are yet to rev?eal the exact dates for t?hese two updates.

The game already has great cross-play and cross-progression support, so for fans who are looking to play it on their Nintendo Switch, you ??won't have to wait lo??ng.

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Gold is an essential currency that you need in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions to unlock brooms, characters, and a lot more items.

Unlike Winged Keys, earning Gold is not that hard in Quidditch Champions. There are multiple ways?? to get this common currency in-game and requires you to complete certain challenges.

How to earn Gold fast in Quidditch Champions

There are three ways to get Gold fast in Quidditch Champions:

• Increase Career levels to get fame
• Complete Career Challenges
• Progress through seasonal rewards

Progressing through Career levels increases fame and gets you several rewards out of which Gold is one. Each time you level up, you get 50 Gold which is not a lot? but gives a steady flow of this currency simply by playing the game and without involv?ing completing challenges.

Completing Career Challenges is a great way to earn Gold in the game. You can earn a maximum of 750 Gold from them, and unlike Daily and Weekly ones, the Career Challenges are permanent. This means you can play and complete them anytime you feel?? like. Also, Daily and Weekly Challenges don't reward you with Gold.

?The Season 0 track brims with rew?ards and grants you a total of 500 Gold when you level up to 50. Here's the breakdown:

• Level 3: 50 Gold
• Level 12: 50 Gold
• Level 24: 100 Gold
• Level 35: 100 Gold
• Level 41: 200 Gold

While these are the free ways to earn Gold, purchasing the Deluxe Edition of the game will give you an additional 2,000 Gold alo??ng with four House Packs.

How to use Gold in Quidditch Champions

After collecting Gold, you can purchase different characters such as Hermione Granger and the Weasley T?wins (Fred and George), brooms, headwear, emotes, victory ??celebrations, wands, and broom trails from the Market.

Hermione Granger and the Weasley Twi?ns appear in bundles where you get these characters and their wands. The Hermione bundle costs 1,650 Gold while the Weasley Twins bundle costs 1,150 Gold.

So, if you are a fan of these characters, getting more Gold makes more sense as this is the only way of getting them in-game, at least at the time of writ?ing in Season 0.

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There are multiple playable maps and pitches in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, but not all come unlocked right from the start.

Apart from some of the most iconic Quidditch pitches shown in the movies such as the school stadium itself and the World Cup Stadium in Goblet of Fire, Quidditch Champions features other arenas too.

How many maps and pitches are there in Quidditch Champions?

There are six maps to play in Quidditch Champions, but some have different variations, making it 11 pitches in total. Here's a rundown of all of them:

• Hogwarts

  • Day
  • Rain
  • Snow

• Beauxbatons
• Durmstrang
• Ilvermorny
• Quidditch World Cup Stadium
• Weasley’s Burrow

  • Day
  • Sunrise
  • Cloudy
  • Sunset

Let's now take a look at how to unlock them.

How to unlock all maps and pitches in Quidditch Champions

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is finally out, so fans can now delve into the magical Hogwarts pastime. But, ?for thos?e with friends and accounts scattered across platforms, does it have cross-play and cross-progression support?

Quidditch Champions is the latest multiplayer game made by Unbroken Studios, featuring the iconic sport and characters from the Harry Potter movies. Multiplayer games like this are best enjoyed when cross-play and cross-progression work seamlessly among all the pla?tforms they're available on.

Does Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions have cross-play?

Yes, Quidditch Champions has full cross-play support among all of its available platforms.

So, if you're playing on PC while your friends are either on a PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, or Nintend??o Switch, you guys can queue up and play PvP matches together.

Does Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions have cross-progression?

Yes, Quidditch Champions also supports cross-progression. The studio confirmed this in their FAQ as well. You have to be connected to the same WB Account t??hough, or else the progress won't sync.

I have the game on Steam and have been playing on my PS5 at the same time, thanks to PS Plus, and my progress is easily shared between the two platforms. So, that's a boon for players who have multiple copies of the game and want to continue from where th??ey left off witho??ut breaking a sweat.

Now that you know about the game's features, be sure to link Quidditch Champions and Fan Club accounts to unlock exclusive in-game rewar?ds.

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions has finally been released and there are many activ??ities for you to earn several achievements and trophies.

Earning trophies in any game feels like an achievement, bringing in a sense of satisfaction especially when you get those hard-earned Platinum and Gold ones. Thankfully, you can earn multiple trophies in Quidditch Champions, while flying on the Firebolt or Nimbus 2001 and playing the popular sport shown in the Harry Potter movies.

How many Quidditch Champions trophies are there?

There are a total of 32 trophies to earn in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions. This includes 1 Platinum, 5 Gold, 12 Silver, and 14 Bronze trophies.

All Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions trophies

You can find the details of every Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions trophy in the table below:

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Winged Keys are one of the common currencies in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions t?hat you can earn in several ways and they help you unlock different characters, wands, broom trails, and more.

Unlike the Firebolt, you need these Winged Keys to unlock certain iconic characters from Harry Potter movies such as Draco Malfoy and Cedric Diggory. They cost a certa??in amount and earning this currency is not as easy as earning Gold and Moonstones.

Fortunately, there are a handful o?f ways to earn Winged Keys, and here's how you can do that.

How to earn Winged Keys Quidditch Champions

There are two ways of earning Winged Keys:

• Complete Daily and Weekly Challenges
• Reach different milestones in Seasonal events

Completing Daily challenges such as playing five PvP matches, winning a game, completing assists, or more can fetch you 2 to 3 Winged Keys. Weekly challenges on the other hand take longer to complete and reward you with 7 to 10 Winged Keys.

The current Season has several milestones and reaching at least level 50 will get you 100 Winged Keys in total. You can continue leveling up; each level beyond 50 will give you 10 of this currency.

How to use Winged Keys in Quidditch Champions

Once you have enough Winged Keys stacked up, you can head to The Vault under Market to spend them on characters such as Draco Malfoy, Cedric Diggory, Ginny Weasley, and Cho Chang. They are known as the Heroes of Hogwarts ?and each of their bundles cost 250x Winged Keys.

These characters have? their dedicated bundles in the store which also offer? other items such as styled wands, house-wise goal celebrations, and colored broom trails.

Winged Keys are the enchanted Flying Keys you've read in Harry Potter: Philosopher's Stone. Just like the series, Winged Keys are equally rare to get in Quidditch Champions, and have many uses we've mentioned above.

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The Nimbus 2001 is an Epic Broomstick skin that you can unlock in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions but you need to complet?e some Career challenges first.

Unlocking the Nimbus 2001 is a part of the Dedication Career Challenge that ultimately unlocks the Legendary Firebolt broom. Under this Dedication challenge, you have to complete five challenges under the "PVP Matches" subcategory.

How to get the Nimbus 2001 skin in Quidditch Champions

Here are all the details of the challenge you need to ??know??:

First Challenge

• PVP Matches Played (Rookie): Play 10 PVP matches
• PVP Matches Played (Pro): Play 30 PVP matches
• PVP Matches Played (All-Star): Play 100 PVP matches
• PVP Matches Played (Champion): Play 200 PVP matches

Comple??ting these tasks will reward you a total of 1,425 Gold and Legacy Silver Arrow (a rare broomstick skin).

Second Challenge

• PVP Bronze Medals: Earn 200 Bronze Medals in PVP mode to earn 75 Gold.

Third Challenge

• PVP Silver Medals: Earn 100 Silver Medals in PVP mode to earn 125 Gold.

Fourth Challenge

• PVP Gold Medals: Earn 25 Gold Medals in PVP mode to earn 250 Gold.

Fifth Challenge

• PVP Platinum Medals: Earn 5 Platinum Medals in PVP mode to earn 300 Gold.

After completing all these five challenges, you unlock the Nimbus 2001 as a group? reward.

This broomstick was first shown in Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets. Lucius Malfoy gifted one to each of Slytherin's Quidditch?? team ?for making Draco Malfoy the Seeker of the team that year. The color scheme of the movie adaptation of Nimbus 2001 was black and silver.

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Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions is finally ou?t worldwide. Straight from the books and movies, the Firebolt is one of the unlockable Legendary Brooms in the game that you can use t??o fly around the Quidditch pitch.

Having a Firebolt would certainly give a Quidditch player an edge. Here's how to unlock one in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions.

How to unlock Firebolt broomstick in Quidditch Champions

To unlock the Firebolt broomstick, you need to complete all Dedication Challenges in Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions.

To find the Dedication Challenges, simply:

1. Head over to the Challenges tab.
2. Choose Career from the left.
3. Click on Dedication.

?The entire challenge comes with two separate challenges: Overall Matches and PVP Matches. Find all their details? in the tables below:

Overall Matches

There are two types of tasks for Overall Matches:

PVP Matches

There are five types of tasks for PVP Matches:

It's evident unlocking the Firebolt won't be easy. You need to play the game a lot and complete all the tasks above to get one of the fastest broomsticks in the Harry Potter universe. In this process, you actually end up unlocking two broomsticks, too: the Firebolt and Nimbus 2001.

In the Harry Potter series, the Firebolt first made its appearance towards the end of the third installment, Prisoner of Azkaban. After Harry's Nimbus 2000 was broken during a Quidd??itch match by the Whomping Willow, Sirius Black gifted the boy wizard a Firebolt. It's one of the fastest broomsticks ever made and is equally expensive.

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