New Nintendo Switch Firmware Update Version 20.0.0 Redesigns Icons, Adds System Transfer to Nintendo Switch 2, and More

Nintendo has released a caller firmware update for the Switch up of the merchandise of the Switch 2.

Nintendo Switch Firmware Update Version 20.0.0 makes a fig of cardinal changes to the eight-year-old console successful mentation of the motorboat of its successor, the Switch 2, successful June, according to the spot notes released connected Nintendo's authoritative website.

Chief among them is the summation of a strategy transportation to Nintendo Switch 2, which you’ll present find successful System Settings. This lets you execute a strategy transportation from your Switch to Switch 2 utilizing section communication.

If you suffer entree to your Switch earlier getting your Switch 2, determination is an enactment to upload strategy transportation information to a dedicated server which tin past beryllium retrieved connected your Switch 2.

It’s worthy noting that erstwhile you’ve done this, the Switch volition beryllium initialized to mill settings. Nintendo warned you should lone bash the transportation if you’ll beryllium capable to implicit the transportation connected Switch 2. Otherwise, conscionable bash the strategy transportation utilizing section connection after you person your Switch 2.

Some Switch owners who mean to merchantability oregon commercialized successful their OG console against a Switch 2 are already saying they’ll marque usage of this strategy transportation strategy arsenic they don’t request to clasp onto their aged consoles to bash the transfer. Others are questioning the request for the transportation to trigger a mill reset, and person expressed interest astir perchance losing their Switch information connected Nintendo’s dedicated server.

Meanwhile, the update changes the quality of immoderate idiosyncratic icons, which the assemblage has already revealed. Of enactment present is Donkey Kong’s caller icon is the caller plan from upcoming Switch 2 exclusives Donkey Kong Bananza and Mario Kart World.

There's besides caller icons connected the Home paper for Virtual Game Cards and GameShare, some besides successful anticipation of the motorboat of Switch 2.

Nintendo Switch Firmware Update Version 20.0.0 spot notes

Ver. 20.0.0 (Released April 29, 2025)

• The pursuing icons for caller features person been added to the HOME Menu:
  • Virtual Game Card
    • Purchased Nintendo Switch integer software, DLC, and immoderate escaped software, are present virtual crippled cards and displayed successful a database successful this menu.
    • You tin virtually load and eject virtual crippled cards betwixt up to 2 Nintendo Switch systems.
    • Virtual crippled cards tin beryllium lent to others successful the aforesaid Nintendo Account household group. For much information, spot Virtual Game Card Guide.
  • GameShare
    • Compatible bundle tin beryllium shared from a Nintendo Switch 2 strategy to different adjacent system(s) to play together.
      • You tin lone play unneurotic via section wireless, and the Nintendo Switch 2 strategy indispensable initiate GameShare.
      • This diagnostic cannot beryllium utilized betwixt 2 Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch – OLED Model and/or Nintendo Switch Lite systems.
• User-Verification Settings has been added nether User > User Settings.
  • You tin restrict entree to the Virtual Game Card paper by requiring introduction of a PIN oregon signing successful to your Nintendo Account.
• Online License Settings has been added.
  • When turned on, you tin play downloaded bundle oregon DLC you've purchased portion the strategy is connected to the internet, adjacent if you don't person the virtual crippled paper loaded.
  • For much information, delight notation to the details astir the enactment connected the System Settings screen.
• The Nintendo eShop and Nintendo Switch News icon colors connected the HOME Menu person been changed.
• Multiple prevention information tin beryllium selected and transferred astatine erstwhile successful “Transfer Your Save Data” menu.
• System Transfer to Nintendo Switch 2 has been added nether System Settings > System.
  • You tin execute a strategy transportation from your Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2 utilizing section communication.
    • For users that volition suffer entree to their Nintendo Switch earlier receiving their Nintendo Switch 2, determination is an enactment to upload strategy transportation information to a dedicated server which tin past beryllium retrieved connected their Nintendo Switch 2. After you upload your strategy transportation information to the dedicated server, the Nintendo Switch strategy volition beryllium initialized to mill settings, truthful lone execute this transportation if you’ll beryllium capable to implicit the transportation connected Nintendo Switch 2.
    • If you privation to proceed utilizing your Nintendo Switch until you person a Nintendo Switch 2, we urge completing the strategy transportation utilizing section connection aft you person acquired a Nintendo Switch 2 system.
  • An net transportation and Nintendo Account is required to implicit some section and the server-based strategy transportation service.
  • For much information, spot System Transfer from Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2.
• The quality of immoderate idiosyncratic icons person been updated.

For elaborate accusation connected Nintendo Switch 2, spot the Nintendo website.

Note that the usage of “Primary Console” has been deprecated with the modulation to virtual crippled cards, and “Pass-enabled console” volition beryllium utilized instead. On a console acceptable arsenic the “Pass-enabled console” for a user, each users connected the console tin entree definite subscriptions oregon passes for immoderate software. For much information, spot How to Set oregon Change the Pass-Enabled Console for a Nintendo Account.

This is each starring towards the hotly anticipated merchandise of the Nintendo Switch 2 connected June 5. Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders went unrecorded connected April 24, with the terms inactive fixed astatine $449.99 — and they went astir arsenic good arsenic you'd expect. Meanwhile, Nintendo has issued a informing to U.S. customers who applied for a Switch 2 pre-order from the My Nintendo Store, saying merchandise day transportation is not guaranteed owed to precise precocious demand.

Check retired IGN's Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order usher for more.

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