Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Switch 2 Compatibility Issue Breaking Matches With Mii Fighters, Nintendo Politely Asks Fans to Stop Using Character Until Fix Deployed

Nintendo has updated its database of Switch 2 compatibility issues to petition that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate owners refrain from utilizing the Mii Fighter characters, arsenic they're presently breaking the game.

According to Nintendo's Japanese enactment website (thanks, OatmealDome), the contented with Mii Fighter lone occurs erstwhile Smash Bros. Ultimate is being played online, and a lucifer takes spot betwixt 1 idiosyncratic connected Switch 1 and different idiosyncratic connected Switch 2.

In this circumstance, should 1 subordinate beryllium utilizing Mii Fighter, Nintendo warns that an online lucifer whitethorn extremity "immediately," kicking some players retired earlier the accustomed punch-ups tin beryllium had.

Nintendo hasn't explained the crushed wherefore this contented is occuring, though the information it is constricted to Mii characters whitethorn suggest determination is immoderate quality to however the 2 console generations grip the customized avatars — leaving the crippled to springiness up connected matches instead.

Indeed, Nintendo besides warns that Mii Fighter thumbnails whitethorn besides not prevention correctly connected Switch 2, pointing to immoderate benignant of compatibility problem.

"An update volition beryllium released soon," Nintendo has said, though there's nary connection yet connected when.

Originally released successful December 2018, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is 1 of Nintendo's best-selling games for Switch 1, with much than 36 cardinal copies shifted. With the series' largest subordinate roster and years of other content, the crippled has earned its Ultimate moniker — leaving galore fans to wonderment what mightiness beryllium adjacent for the series.

Nintendo precocious announced a caller crippled from Smash Bros. bid brag Masahiro Sakurai — though it's not a caller Smash Bros. title. Instead, the seasoned decorator and manager is moving connected Kirby Air Riders, a caller crippled for Nintendo's pinkish puffball that's owed to motorboat connected Switch 2 aboriginal successful 2025.

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