One of many first belongings you’re requested to do whereas establishing the Nintendo Switch 2 is whether or not you wish to switch your Nintendo Account to the Switch 2. The console features a useful walkthrough for how you can deal with the switch, however you do must put aside a good chunk of time and be in a spot the place you may have your unique Switch and Switch 2 shut collectively.
We have defined how you can switch your account to Switch 2 beneath, together with how you can get your account information later in the event you do not switch in the course of the setup.
How to switch your Switch information to Nintendo Switch 2
Here is what you want earlier than beginning the switch.
- A wi-fi web connection and your web password, so your Switch 2 can hook up with your wi-fi community
- The most recent software program replace for the unique Switch
- Energy adapters for each techniques and room to plug them in close to every other–literally proper subsequent to one another, ideally
- You may doubtless want the unique Switch energy cable for this course of. In our testing, the Switch did not acknowledge USB-C energy sources that ought to have labored
- No less than half-hour for the method to finish
While you first boot up your Nintendo Switch 2 and join it to the web, a system message informs you that you could switch information out of your Switch to Switch 2. You may select to start out the switch, ignore it–which Nintendo solely recommends if you do not have an unique Switch–or get extra details about how the transfers work. You may additionally must sign up to the Nintendo Account whose information you wish to switch on the Switch 2, which you are able to do with a QR code Nintendo gives in the course of the course of or by coming into the e-mail and password related to the account.
Transferring your information takes all person accounts on the unique Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo Accounts they’re tied to, downloads, and save information to the Switch 2. Some video games, together with demos, Pokemon video games, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, can solely exist on one console, so the method will take them out of your unique Switch and relocate them to your Switch 2. Every little thing else will stay on the unique Switch, so you may nonetheless play it there if you wish to.
Observe the prompts on the Switch 2, till it directs you to the unique Switch. Then:
- Open the “settings” menu on the unique Switch
- Choose the “system” submenu
- Navigate to the underside, and select “System switch to Switch 2”
If that final choice is not there, you may must replace your Switch and restart it.
Plug each consoles into their energy sources, and proceed with the switch. The method takes roughly half-hour or longer, relying on what number of accounts you are transferring.
How to switch Switch information after establishing Switch 2
The catch is that in the event you do not switch your account if you first set your Switch 2 up, you may’t switch it later. In contrast to the unique Switch, which has choices to switch accounts between Switch, Switch Lite, and the Switch OLED fashions, the Switch 2 solely helps you to switch in the course of the system setup course of.
Which may sound like a difficulty if you do not have your unique Switch useful in the course of the Switch 2 setup. Nevertheless, Nintendo says you may add a brand new person later and link your Nintendo Account to it. Digital video games, profiles, and cloud save information are tied to Nintendo Accounts, so the identical information will nonetheless be obtainable in your Switch 2. Simply ensure you do not downloaded something on the setup Switch 2 account first. In the event you hyperlink your Nintendo Account to the preliminary Switch 2 person account, the previous will override the latter.
You may have your Nintendo Account on a number of techniques, and a single Switch 2 can have as much as eight accounts linked to it.
You may even have the choice to switch screenshots and movies from Switch to Switch 2, however you may want the microSD card out of your unique Switch for this one–not the Switch 2-specific microSD Categorical card. You may switch media at any time after setting the system up, although, so there isn’t any trouble round it like with transferring account information.