{"id":135650,"date":"2026-01-14T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196176"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:30:00","slug":"more-switch-games-have-received-switch-2-compatibility-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/more-switch-games-have-received-switch-2-compatibility-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"More Switch Games Have Received Switch 2 Compatibility Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1d05e05716231\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1d05e05716231\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"1d05e05716231\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1d05e05716231\/pokemon.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1d05e05716231\/pokemon.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo released a new system firmware update for the Switch 2 yesterday and it&#8217;s resolved some compatibility issues.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been an issue with the 2021 releases <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_brilliant_diamond_and_shining_pearl\">Pok\u00e9mon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl<\/a><\/strong>, with both Switch titles reportedly crashing from time to time on the new hybrid system. Fortunately, Nintendo appears to have finally resolved these problems after the rollout of the 21.2.0 system firmware.<\/p>\n<p>This is now officially reflected on Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/switch-software-compatibility.nintendo.com\/en-US\">software compatibility search page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update 01\/13\/2026<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Previously identified issues have been resolved with an update.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols cols-2\">\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8cf0617225962\/pokemon.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8cf0617225962\/pokemon.445x399.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"399\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/658e4d5125c81\/pokemon.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/658e4d5125c81\/pokemon.445x399.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"399\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>One other game fixed is the &#8220;RTS, tower defense, and match-3&#8221; title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cats_on_duty\">Cats on Duty<\/a> (<em>yes, you read that correctly<\/em>), which is <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/switch-software-compatibility.nintendo.com\/en-US\/details\/01006b401d426000\">now fully supported<\/a> on the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has also identified an issue with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/kirbys_return_to_dream_land_deluxe\">Kirby&#8217;s Return to Dream Land Deluxe<\/a> on the Switch 2 tied to audio issues in certain areas of the game, so we&#8217;ll hopefully see a fix for this soon. Once again, you can find out more about the compatibility of Switch titles on the Switch 2 via Nintendo&#8217;s software compatibility search page.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:196121,123456,145021 @ 1768385274 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Have you tried out any of these games on the Switch 2 since the new system firmware update was released? Are there any games in particular you would like to see updated or fixed for the Switch 2? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company Nintendo released a new system firmware update for the Switch 2 yesterday and it&#8217;s resolved some compatibility issues. There&#8217;s been an issue with the 2021 releases Pok\u00e9mon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, with both Switch titles reportedly crashing from time to time on the new hybrid system. Fortunately, Nintendo appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}