Multiple Games are Getting Enhancements on the Nintendo Switch 2 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2025 / 3,386 Views
Nintendo announced several original Nintendo Switch games will be getting enhancements on the Nintendo Switch 2 called "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition."
The Switch 2 version of the games need to be purchased separately or as an upgrade for owners of the Switch 1 versions.
Confirmed games that will have a "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" include Super Mario Party Jamboree, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, and Pokémon Legends Z-A.
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond on the Switch 2 will support mouse controls, and either 4K 60fps HDR visuals or 120fps performance mode. Pokémon Legends Z-A will have enhanced visuals.
The Legend of Zelda games will also feature improved resolutions and frame rates, as well as a new Zelda Notes feature that lets players access a game map on their mobile devices.
Super Mario Party Jamboree will feature mouse controls, audio recognition, improved rumble, and gameplay that utilizes the camera accessory.
View trailers of some of the games getting enhancements below:
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Disappointing it's not just a free update.
Its nintendo...
You'd think they would at leat make it free for the suscibers to their online service.
It is free for their online subscribers.
I'll just rebuy the games and keep my Switch and Switch 2.0 Library separate.
It is? My bad, must have missed it.
i will die on this hill of saying that, as long as Nintendo/Sony isn’t substituting major releases for these minor upgrade releases, then I am perfectly happy paying $10 for 60fps on BotW/TotK/GoW/etc. It’s a small fee for significantly better experience. Free update would obv be preferred, but I’m happy we’re even getting updates at all. This is significantly better than the strategy of releasing ‘Deluxe’ editions at full/higher prices.
This will depend on what they're charging but feels potentially a bit scummy for games like BotW and TotK where it sounds like they're locking the console's ability to run them better behind a paywall.
It's a fair system. Where they add features and put in a certain amount of effort, they charge, where they let the console do the lifting they don't. Nothing wrong about this at all.
Only nine comments? No, really?
And havr to pay for all of them.thats even worse then what sony did
Didnt you have to pay to upgrade Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon ZD and Last of Us?
That are 4 gamss lol ninty already got 6 aaand we all know a lot more to come.
Some PS4 games give you a PS5 version for free, others don't. I had to pay for the Death Stranding PS5 upgrade, but for a lot of my games (Elden Ring, Doom Eternal, Guardians of the Galaxy, Sonic Frontiers) the update is free.
The entire industry has been going downhill for decades now. This is just the next logical decline.
Ah yes, having to pay an upgrade fee is a decline from having to pay for the whole game again.
As someone who experienced gaming from NES-PS2... I don't remember many times where they resold games. Back then, gaming was so revolutionary, so creative, we didn't WANT old games. We wanted NEW games. And perhaps that's the issue. You guys keep buying the same damn game over and over again. If you'd stop, they wouldn't charge.
Tell that to the PlayStation fans begging to play Bloodborne and RDR2 in 60 fps on the PS5 since 2020.
This problem does not belong to just one camp. It's an industry-wide issue.
What exactly is the problem you're complaining about? Having to pay for next gen upgrades instead of having to buy a whole next gen port of the game or not having a next gen version at all?
The problem is that they're so tapped-out for new, revolutionary IPs that they have to keep repurposing old ones. And the few that ARE new, aren't really new. They're just sequels to the IP they invented decades ago. That wasn't the case in the 80's and 90's. Yes, there were obviously sequels, but brand new games like Chrono Trigger and DKC were being invented left and right. They had more ideas, more vision, more creativity. Not so much anymore.
DKC was not a new IP, unless you want to consider that new Bananza game a new IP too, and Square Enix created dozens of new IPs in this generation. Or maybe what you mean with those two examples is that they were innovative? Of course it's hard to compete with the innovation of the 2D and early 3D eras, but innovation still exists, BOTW revolutionized open world games, Splatoon was a very innovative team shooter, Shadow of Mordor created the innovative Nemesis system, just for WB to take it away from us with an useless patent, RDR2 innovated realism in video games, etc. Innovation is not dead.
