Nintendo Switch 2 Game Starter Guides

The adjacent Nintendo console motorboat is connected the horizon, and though it doesn't see a ton of brand-new motorboat games close retired of the gate, determination are plentifulness of breathtaking crippled upgrades (free and not) and new-to-Switch games to play. If you're looking to get your Nintendo Switch 2 acceptable up and ne'er deliberation astir its settings again oregon wanting to marque definite you person the champion commencement imaginable successful the caller games, instrumentality a look astatine our recommended guides written by IGN's experts.

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Getting Started With the Switch 2

Start preparing yourself for the Nintendo Switch 2 adjacent earlier it's successful your hands! These starter guides don't request you to person the console, but they tin assistance you get your strategy acceptable up faster erstwhile it arrives:

• Nintendo Switch 2 Launch Guide - From mounting up your Nintendo relationship to checking connected what accessories you tin use, get up connected your system's setup.
• How to Transfer System Data - If you're giving your Nintendo Switch the agelong remainder successful favour of the Switch 2, you tin hole your prevention information for transfer. Use this usher oregon its video beneath to larn however to bash it.

Stay tuned for much setup guides arsenic we find retired ways to amended the wide play acquisition connected the Nintendo Switch 2.

Mario Kart World

IGN's adept usher writers are waiting for the Nintendo Switch 2 motorboat to get their hands connected Mario Kart World to commencement putting the usher together. Stay tuned for an interactive representation with each the Mario Kart World secrets, unlock guides, and more.

See which characters and costumes person been revealed already for Mario Kart World here.

Starting oregon Revisiting Zelda? Start here

The Switch 2 launches with paid updates for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that adhd a caller second-screen collectible set, graphical improvements, and more. Whether you're playing for the archetypal clip oregon revisiting some to spot their updates, these guides tin assistance you connected your adventure.

The Most Helpful Zelda: Breath of the Wild Guides:

• Use the BotW Interactive Map to Find Everything - Yes, adjacent each 900 Korok Seeds! If Korok Seed hunting isn't your thing, the interactive representation besides has each armor locations and communal limb driblet spots. If you're disquieted astir moving into a stressful Guardian oregon Lynel brushwood (or if you're actively hunting them), you tin spot them each connected this representation too.
• All Recipes and Cookbook Guide - Whether you privation to navigator up a dainty for Link oregon conscionable marque the easiest recipes possible, you'll find everything you tin navigator successful BotW here.
• Shrine Guides - Keep way of which shrines you've completed and get assistance solving the trickier ones with these adjuvant guides.
• Complete BotW Walkthrough - Breath of the Wild allows you to take which large situation to tackle successful immoderate bid you wish. If you request assistance deciding wherever to spell next, cheque retired our elaborate walkthrough.
• 100% Completion Checklist - If you privation to scope the 100% in-game completion, usage the this usher to spot precisely what BotW counts toward that advancement and what doesn't.

Essential Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Guides:

• Tears of the Kingdom Interactive Map - Watch out! You'll spot everything that tin beryllium uncovered with this updated representation of Hyrule, but if that's precisely what you want, look nary further! Find each shrines and Light Roots, dungeons, Korok Seeds, and plentifulness more. Keep way of what you've recovered connected this map, too!
• Things Tears of the Kingdom Doesn't Tell You - Tears of the Kingdom whitethorn look akin to Breath of the Wild, but rather a batch of small (and big) things alteration betwixt the two. Get up with this adjuvant tips guide.
• Complete TotK Walkthrough - There's a batch much of Hyrule to research this clip around. Get the champion strategies for each brag combat and puzzle solutions successful this TotK walkthrough.
• All Armor Sets - Keep way of what you've collected and preview what you tin get aboriginal with this adjuvant checklist of each armor set.
• Shrine Locations and Solutions - There are 152 Shrines to find successful Tears of the Kingdom. Getting to immoderate is conscionable fractional the battle. Find retired however to implicit them each with the assistance of IGN's Shrine guide.
• All Side Quests and Side Adventures - With adjacent to a full of 200 broadside quests and broadside adventures to way down and complete, there's plentifulness to do. Don't miss a azygous 1 with this adjuvant checklist and searchable table.

100% Completion Checklist - Like successful Breath of the Wild, you request to implicit circumstantial tasks to scope 100 percent completion successful your game's prevention file. Learn precisely what counts with this guide.

Revisiting Nintendo Switch 2 Upgrades

Did you cognize immoderate Switch games are getting escaped upgrades for the Switch 2? Though astir are lone ocular improvements (see much details astir the escaped crippled show upgrades here), a escaped enhancement is surely invited for immoderate of the games that had show issues connected the archetypal Switch. Below are the confirmed games (with guides!) that person a escaped day-one upgrade:

• Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Guide
• Super Mario Odyssey Guide
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Guide
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Guide

Other Big Releases connected Switch 2

Though not wholly new, Hogwarts Legacy is getting a paid upgrade and games similar Cyberpunk 2077 are making their Switch 2 debut. And not exclusive to the Switch 2, but Nintendo Switch Online members are getting entree to GameCube classics similar The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Get guides for those and much by pursuing the links below.

• Cyberpunk 2077 Guide
• Hogwarts Legacy Guide
• The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Guide
• Sid Meier's Civilization VII Guide
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time

There are different large games coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 astatine later, unannounced dates including Elden Ring - Tarnished Edition and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. There's a rumor we'll spot Red Dead Redemption 2 connected Switch 2 successful 2025, but you'll person to enactment tuned for much quality and announcements.

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