The Nintendo Switch 2 will be released on June 5 and, as is often the case in the past of the Mario and Zelda giants, the new handheld console becomes downward compatible. Some old Switch 1 games receive free and paid updates that unlock additional features and graphics improvements. We summarize what titles these are for you.
These Switch 1 games receive free Switch 2-upgrades
So far we have known game upgrades from the Playstation (Pro) consoles. The Switch 2 downward compatibility will also rely on updates that improve the technology of old games.
These are the previously known titles with free updates:
- ARMS
- Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain
- Captian Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics
- Game Builder Garage
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Pokémon Karmesin
- Pokémin Purpur
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
- Super Mario Odyssey
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
So Nintendo starts. In the coming days, weeks and months, games from third party developers should be added who receive a free upgrade.
What improvements will it be?
Nintendo itself indicates that the free updates should improve the performance of games. Above all, it is likely to be more stable or higher framerates. Above allare notorious for their fearsome fluctuating frame rate on Switch 1:
Higher Framates could also be unlocked.The 2D-Zelda games from Nintendo, for example, currently only come to a jerky 30 fps every now and then, there it could be 60 fps. In addition, the Nintendo Switch 2 has a display with 120 Hertz, but it should be fully exhausted by rather few games.
Nintendo also indicates that theGameShare-Function for selected games with Switch 2-upgrades is activated. You can play with your friends, even if they do not have the game. Clubhouse Games is one of the games with Gameshaare support.
Paid upgrades
Not every upgrade is free, there will also be games with paid upgrade packs.This is currently:
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Super Mario Jamboree + Jamboree TV
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
These titles have been revised and support higher resolutions, Framerates,as well as exclusive switch 2 features such as control by. Therefore they will alsoSwitch 2-Editioncalled.
ForandNo upgrade packs have yet been announced. However, you should also be able to be improved in this way if you later switch from the first to the second switch.
All games for the launch of the console
The Switch 2-upgrades will be available directly for the release of the console, just like a whole series of new games.You can find out which these are here:
So you will have a lot to do with the old and also the new games on the release day and in the course of the year the Switch 2 game avalanche should really get going.
Which switch game would you want to enjoy again with a higher frame rate or resolution? Would you even be worth buying an upgrade pack?
