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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tom Regan

How to make your old Nintendo Switch games feel new again on Switch 2

Nintendo Switch 2.
Shiny new system … Nintendo Switch 2. Photograph: Nintendo

Outside of the phenomenal Mario Kart World and next week’s Donkey Kong Bananza, there isn’t much new Nintendo software to keep early Switch 2 adopters occupied. Thankfully, Nintendo has seen fit to improve a heap of existing Nintendo Switch games on the shiny new system, both in the form of graphics-boosting free updates and more substantial paid reworks. The different options can be confusing, however, so here’s an explanation of how it all works.

So what’s the difference when you play Switch games on Switch 2?

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