{"id":626,"date":"2025-06-26T02:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-nintendo-switch-2-webcam-compatibility-mystery-is-solved-and-updates-are-on-the-way\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T02:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:07:32","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-2-webcam-compatibility-mystery-is-solved-and-updates-are-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-nintendo-switch-2-webcam-compatibility-mystery-is-solved-and-updates-are-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch 2 webcam compatibility mystery is solved and updates are on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you plug the world’s best-reviewed webcams into the Nintendo Switch 2 today, they won’t work, while many comparatively ancient webcams do<\/a>. Why? That’s been a mystery for the nearly three weeks since the handheld launched. Now, two companies say they’ve figured it out and are pledging to update the firmware on their cameras.<\/p>\n

Here’s a possibly oversimplified answer: today’s more powerful webcams advertise many different modes that they support to any device you connect via USB – but that’s a problem<\/em> because the Nintendo Switch 2 appears to be choosing modes it can’t properly play.<\/p>\n

In the case of Elgato, which will update its non-working Facecam MK.2 and Facecam Neo, the solve was adding an additional low-resolution 480p mode, with Elgato general manager Julian Fest speculating<\/a> that the Switch can only reliably support \u00ab\u00a0very low resolution\u00a0\u00bb cameras in order to put multiple facecams on screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But low resolution by itself isn’t the answer – as you’d probably expect, given that Nintendo’s own official Switch 2 camera is a 1080p camera that genuinely broadcasts a 1080p mode (we checked), and given it’s far from the only 1080p or higher camera that works with Nintendo’s new Switch.<\/p>\n

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Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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