SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unity (NYSE: U), the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences, today announced that it will provide game developers with official support for Nintendo Switch™ 2.

Games can only get better.

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Power up select Nintendo Switch games to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition to get new features and enhancements! Learn about upgrade packs and how to get them for games like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and more.

"it’s a bold move"

Nintendo's decades-old marketing plan to launch a global product in only a few select markets continues with the Nintendo Switch 2.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is exactly what it should be, more of the same, but better, faster, smoother, bigger. I just need it OLED. Boring and predictable is not bad if the choices that are boring and predictable are right. Bring on boring, because the games won't be. No audience was ever pissed off at being given exactly what they wanted. Nintendo merging their console and handheld lines with the Switch made so much sense. The Switch 1 to the Switch 2 makes even more sense. It is basically Nintendo saying the console will have as much rendering power as a mobile device so it can be handheld because they don't care about having the fastest rendering console. Nintendo stepped out of the console wars when they figured out how to take the promise of the WiiU and make it real. Now what everyone wants is a Switch with more RAM, faster processing, and the ability to play all our Switch games along with new stuff. And that is the Switch 2. But can I wait for the Switch 2 OLED? Nintendo has learned that Microsoft was right about two things with Xbox. Have backwards compatibility (software and/or hardware emulation) and have one forever Cloud account. The latter is what Microsoft learned from Apple iTunes and Steam. I never lose my Steam purchases. So why should I lose my Nintendo purchases every gen? Compatibility and Cloud accounts shifted from optional to required, in the last five years. This is where Valve and Apple have influenced consoles. I've had a Steam account since 2004. I have had an Apple iTunes account since 2003. And an Apple App store account since 2007. Now with Valve's Steam I have had one continuous active account for 20 years. Starting with Half-Life 2, everything purchased stayed on there, forever When I get a Switch 2, I want to do the same thing I did with my XSX, login to my account and have all my games appear. I wanted this with my PS5. It doesn't quite work. With my XSX, I have original Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, & Xbox Series X/S titles all together. With my Switch 2 I want all my Switch titles, but also every Classic title immediately backwards compatible and working. If I buy an N64 Classic title I don't want to buy it every generation. I want to buy it once and have it ALWAYS work. Yes I'm a developer and I know the complications, but when I buy games, I'M A GAME CONSUMER. And I want to be catered to when a game platform takes my money. Just make the shit work. I have your device, I'm upgrading to the next device. Bring over everything I purchased last time. You have a sticky platform if I have all my inventory from day one. I will stay on if you honor my prior purchases. If you don't, then you don't have a competent cloud platform. That's what a gamer thinks. Any gamer. Apple showed us how it works. Then Valve. Then Microsoft. Now Sony and Nintendo get your shit together. Do the hard work of emulation. And make EVERYTHING work. On PS5, I want my PS3 library. On Switch 2, I want my N64 & 3DS. Make it Happen. #gamedev