Logitech says all its webcams work with Nintendo Switch 2, save one

If you’re looking for a webcam that works with the Nintendo Switch 2’s caller GameChat mode that lets you video chat with friends and spot their faces wrong games, it looks similar the biggest marque successful PC accessories is inactive your champion bet.

Logitech is the archetypal webcam shaper to corroborate to The Verge that the immense bulk of its cameras enactment — each of them, successful fact, prevention for the high-end Logitech Brio 4K.

“All of our webcams but Brio 4K enactment retired of the container with Switch 2,” Logitech spokesperson Leila Lewis definitively tells The Verge.

When the Nintendo Switch 2 launched 3 weeks ago, webcam manufacturers had nary thought which cameras would beryllium compatible with the caller Switch, and immoderate of the best-reviewed cameras simply didn’t work. It was a weird mystery, a chaotic west, and webcam makers had to fig it retired connected their own.

Many didn’t adjacent person a Switch 2 to trial with, my sources archer me, and had to vie with consumers to bargain the fastest-selling crippled console of each time. Nor did Nintendo supply compatibility guidelines, it seems, arsenic manufacturers similar Elgato and Ugreen had to reverse-engineer wherefore their seemingly compatible cameras weren’t showing up erstwhile they plugged them in.

But that enigma present seems to beryllium solved — the answers are not what we expected! — and manufacturers are present seemingly escaped to update immoderate of their firmware-updatable webcams and marque them compatible with the caller Switch.

Logitech doesn’t look to beryllium promising an update for the Brio 4K. “Brio 4K is built with the information features of Windows Hello that are not supported connected the Switch 2 anyway,” Lewis tells The Verge.

But again, each its different webcams reportedly enactment — which won’t beryllium each that astonishing to anyone who’s been pursuing the webcam saga. When Nintendo and webcam makers weren’t primitively capable to supply lists of moving webcams, Redditors crowdsourced their ain list, which includes acold much moving webcams from Logitech than immoderate different manufacturer.

A fewer Redditors accidental you tin adjacent get the Brio 4K moving if you want, with a firmware downgrade. Do that astatine your ain risk, though.

So far, Elgato and Ugreen person committed to upgrading circumstantial cameras to enactment with the Nintendo Switch 2. Obsbot has generically confirmed it volition bash immoderate benignant of firmware updates, and Insta360 is inactive looking into it. Anker is non-committal.