Yesterday, Nintendo announced a major shake-up to the way it handles digital games with the Switch Virtual Card system, which allows players to share their digital games with friends and family – within a set of limitations. Now that the FAQ page for this is now live, fans have spotted a big hint towards how Nintendo will handle the transition from Switch 1 to Switch 2.

As spotted by Wario64, the small print on the Nintendo Virtual Game Card page makes a key distinction between ‘Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives' and ‘Nintendo Switch 2 Edition' games, indicating that we'll see some of the biggest Switch titles updated to take advantage of the Switch 2 hardware.

“Compatible systems must be linked to a Nintendo Account to use virtual game cards. Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive games and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games can only be loaded on a Nintendo Switch 2 system”, the page states.

So it would appear that we will be getting not just new games exclusive to the Switch 2, but upgraded versions of titles released for the original Switch, labelled as “Switch 2 Edition' games. This strengthens the theory that titles like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will be cross-gen, with a version for the original Switch, as well as a ‘Switch 2 Edition'.

We'll be learning much more about the Nintendo Switch 2 next week, as another Nintendo Direct scheduled for the 2nd of April, focused entirely on the next-gen system.

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KitGuru Says: Which games from the original Switch would you like to see updated for Switch 2? In my opinion, the Xenoblade games could all do with a resolution bump, as they tend to hit messy 360p resolution in handheld mode on the current hardware. The same can be said for a lot of third-party AAA games on Switch too, like The Witcher 3, DOOM, and others.

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