Nintendo Switch 2 can make your old Switch games feel brand new again

Summary

Link's Awakening, Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 2, docked. Note fewer jaggies and sharper textures, especially on top of the posts. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 2, docked. Note fewer jaggies and sharper textures, especially on top of the posts. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 2, handheld. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 2, handheld. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 2, docked. Note fewer jaggies and sharper textures, especially on top of the posts. Andrew Cunningham Link's Awakening, Switch 2, handheld. Andrew Cunningham It's pretty much the same story for Link's Awakening. Fine detail is much more visible, and the 3D is less aliased-looking because the Switch 2 is running the game at a higher resolution. Even the fairly aggressive background blur the game uses looks toned down on the Switch 2. Link's Awakening on the Switch 1, docked. Link's Awakening on the Switch 2, docked. The videos of these games aren't quite as obviously impressive as the Pokémon ones, but they give you a sense of the higher resolution on the Switch 2 and the way that the Switch's small endemic frame rate hiccups are no longer a problem. Quiet updates For the last two categories of games, we won't be waxing as poetic about the graphical improvements because there aren't many. In fact, some of these games we played looked ever-so-subtly worse on the Switch 2 in handheld mode, likely a side effect of a 720p handheld-mode image being upscaled to the Switch 2's 1080p native resolution. Kirby Star Allies doesn't get a big upgrade. Here it is on the Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Kirby Star Allies doesn't get a big upgrade. Here it is on the Switch 1, docked. Andrew Cunningham Switch 2, docked. The 3D looks basically the same, but note that the 2D labels here are much sharper. Andrew Cunningham Switch 2, docked. The 3D looks basically the same, but note that the 2D ...