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List of Nintendo Switch 2 games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
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The Nintendo Switch 2 is a video game console developed by Nintendo that serves as the successor to the Nintendo Switch. Like the original Switch, games are released both in physical and digital formats. Physical games are sold on cartridges that slot into the Switch 2 console unit. Digital games are purchased through the Nintendo eShop and stored either in the Switch 2's internal 256 GB of storage or on a microSD Express card. In addition to being backward compatible with most of the Switch games, the Switch 2 also supports Game-Key Cards, which require Internet connection for download before they can be played, as well as "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" games, enhanced ports of Switch games that make use of the Switch 2's features.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Nintendo Switch 2 games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.