• Buddy Collection if
• Dragon Quest Builders
• Laysara: Summit Kingdom
• Monster Hunter Stories
• Neon Inferno
• Overcooked: All You Can Eat
• This is Fine: Maximum Cope
• Top Cop: Police Training
• Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Not every problem was solved, however. Ghost Master: Resurrection remains flagged with known issues identified by Nintendo, though no timeline was given for a fix. Other titles like Grandia HD Collection and Resident Evil 5 still feature documented, if less severe, problems such as slowdowns and audio glitches in specific areas .

Four Games Newly Marked Fully Unsupported

The other side of May's update is a small but notable list of titles now classified as fully unsupported, meaning they will not boot or play at all on the Switch 2 :

• Attack on Titan 2
• Crypt Carnage
• Megadimension Neptunia 7
• Truck Simulator USA

Nintendo’s public notes for this wave did not spell out the specific technical reasons these four games failed compatibility testing. The official categorization simply reads “fully unsupported,” though typical causes in past waves have included DRM conflicts, niche engine incompatibilities, or bugs that remain unaddressed by the original publishers .

A Year of Steady Repair: How We Got Here

Since the Switch 2 launched on June 5, 2025, Nintendo has issued a consistent drumbeat of firmware and compatibility patches. The cadence makes the current near-universal compatibility feel less like a launch promise and more like a hard-won engineering effort:

• June 2025 (Ver. 20.1.5): Solved start-up issues for Carbon Engine games from Limited Run Games, including Tomba, Shantae, and River City Girls Zero .
• July 2025 (Ver. 20.2.0): Quietly fixed crashes in Portal 2 and Crypt of the Necrodancer while patching system-transfer stability .
• October 2025: Warframe and four other titles—including Deemo Reborn and Ultra Age—achieved full compatibility .
• November 2025: A broad wave addressed Batman: The Enemy Within, Hitman, several JRPGs, and Nier: Automata, after the latter saw widespread reports of issues .
• December 2025: Resident Evil 4 and nine additional games received stability and performance tweaks to run more smoothly on the new hardware .
• March 2026 (Ver. 22.0.0): The landmark "Handheld Mode Boost" arrived, allowing almost every original Switch game to run in handheld mode using the same performance profile as docked mode. This update also fixed Final Fantasy XII, DOOM (2016), Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, and dozens more .

Nintendo acknowledges that it continues to work directly with third-party developers to clear the remaining problem titles .

How Nintendo Tracks and Labels Compatibility

The company now maintains an official compatibility website at Nintendo.com, available in multiple regional versions. Launched publicly in November 2025, the page allows anyone to type in a Switch 1 game—physical or digital—and instantly see whether it is "Supported," flagged with issues, or fully incompatible .

Games with problems fall into a few well-defined tiers:

• Supported: The game behaves identically to its performance on original Switch hardware .
• Compatibility Issues – Investigating: The title boots and plays, but players may encounter bugs or frame-rate hiccups while the developer works on a patch .
• Feature-Specific Issues: The core game functions, but certain accessories or modes—such as the IR motion camera, original Joy-Con, or gyroscope—do not work properly with newer Joy-Con 2 controllers. Games like Ring Fit Adventure and Game Builder Garage fall into this category, requiring a paired set of original Joy-Con to play fully .
• Fully Unsupported: The game cannot be played on Switch 2 at all. As of May 2026, this list includes the four newly flagged titles plus a handful of earlier additions .

The One Permanent Casualty: Labo VR

No firmware update will ever make Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit playable on a Switch 2. The original VR Kit relies on sliding the 6.2-inch Switch tablet into a set of cardboard goggles; the Switch 2 tablet, at 7.9 inches, is too large to physically fit into the Toy-Con VR Goggles accessory. Nintendo’s own documentation states plainly, “The Nintendo Switch 2 console cannot be inserted into the Toy-Con VR Goggles accessory, so this game cannot be played” .

It is the only first-party Nintendo title forever locked to the old console—a small bit of collateral damage from the modest but meaningful hardware redesign.

For the other 15,000-plus original Switch games, the odds of a smooth transition to the successor console have never looked better. Check Nintendo’s official compatibility page if you want to verify a specific title before booting it up, but most of your library is almost certainly ready to go.

• Buddy Collection if
• Dragon Quest Builders
• Laysara: Summit Kingdom
• Monster Hunter Stories
• Neon Inferno
• Overcooked: All You Can Eat
• This is Fine: Maximum Cope
• Top Cop: Police Training
• Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Not every problem was solved, however. Ghost Master: Resurrection remains flagged with known issues identified by Nintendo, though no timeline was given for a fix. Other titles like Grandia HD Collection and Resident Evil 5 still feature documented, if less severe, problems such as slowdowns and audio glitches in specific areas .

Four Games Newly Marked Fully Unsupported

The other side of May's update is a small but notable list of titles now classified as fully unsupported, meaning they will not boot or play at all on the Switch 2 :

• Attack on Titan 2
• Crypt Carnage
• Megadimension Neptunia 7
• Truck Simulator USA

Nintendo’s public notes for this wave did not spell out the specific technical reasons these four games failed compatibility testing. The official categorization simply reads “fully unsupported,” though typical causes in past waves have included DRM conflicts, niche engine incompatibilities, or bugs that remain unaddressed by the original publishers .

A Year of Steady Repair: How We Got Here

Since the Switch 2 launched on June 5, 2025, Nintendo has issued a consistent drumbeat of firmware and compatibility patches. The cadence makes the current near-universal compatibility feel less like a launch promise and more like a hard-won engineering effort:

• June 2025 (Ver. 20.1.5): Solved start-up issues for Carbon Engine games from Limited Run Games, including Tomba, Shantae, and River City Girls Zero .
• July 2025 (Ver. 20.2.0): Quietly fixed crashes in Portal 2 and Crypt of the Necrodancer while patching system-transfer stability .
• October 2025: Warframe and four other titles—including Deemo Reborn and Ultra Age—achieved full compatibility .
• November 2025: A broad wave addressed Batman: The Enemy Within, Hitman, several JRPGs, and Nier: Automata, after the latter saw widespread reports of issues .
• December 2025: Resident Evil 4 and nine additional games received stability and performance tweaks to run more smoothly on the new hardware .
• March 2026 (Ver. 22.0.0): The landmark "Handheld Mode Boost" arrived, allowing almost every original Switch game to run in handheld mode using the same performance profile as docked mode. This update also fixed Final Fantasy XII, DOOM (2016), Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, and dozens more .

Nintendo acknowledges that it continues to work directly with third-party developers to clear the remaining problem titles .

How Nintendo Tracks and Labels Compatibility

The company now maintains an official compatibility website at Nintendo.com, available in multiple regional versions. Launched publicly in November 2025, the page allows anyone to type in a Switch 1 game—physical or digital—and instantly see whether it is "Supported," flagged with issues, or fully incompatible .

Games with problems fall into a few well-defined tiers:

• Supported: The game behaves identically to its performance on original Switch hardware .
• Compatibility Issues – Investigating: The title boots and plays, but players may encounter bugs or frame-rate hiccups while the developer works on a patch .
• Feature-Specific Issues: The core game functions, but certain accessories or modes—such as the IR motion camera, original Joy-Con, or gyroscope—do not work properly with newer Joy-Con 2 controllers. Games like Ring Fit Adventure and Game Builder Garage fall into this category, requiring a paired set of original Joy-Con to play fully .
• Fully Unsupported: The game cannot be played on Switch 2 at all. As of May 2026, this list includes the four newly flagged titles plus a handful of earlier additions .

The One Permanent Casualty: Labo VR

No firmware update will ever make Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit playable on a Switch 2. The original VR Kit relies on sliding the 6.2-inch Switch tablet into a set of cardboard goggles; the Switch 2 tablet, at 7.9 inches, is too large to physically fit into the Toy-Con VR Goggles accessory. Nintendo’s own documentation states plainly, “The Nintendo Switch 2 console cannot be inserted into the Toy-Con VR Goggles accessory, so this game cannot be played” .

It is the only first-party Nintendo title forever locked to the old console—a small bit of collateral damage from the modest but meaningful hardware redesign.

For the other 15,000-plus original Switch games, the odds of a smooth transition to the successor console have never looked better. Check Nintendo’s official compatibility page if you want to verify a specific title before booting it up, but most of your library is almost certainly ready to go.