The Nintendo Switch smartphone app is getting some excellent new features

While sharing screenshots and videos from the archetypal Nintendo Switch has ever been an excessively analyzable process, it’s going to beryllium overmuch easier for the Switch 2.

During today’s Direct presentation, Nintendo spent a batch of clip talking astir the Switch 2’s caller built-in GameChat functionality that volition springiness players a mode to stock their screens during radical video calls. But the institution besides announced that it’s rolling retired an update for the Switch household of systems’ companion smartphone app. 

Now simply called the “Nintendo Switch app,” the exertion volition proceed to enactment Nintendo’s aged dependable chat diagnostic for circumstantial titles similar Splatoon 3 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the archetypal Switch. But for Switch 2 owners, the Nintendo Switch app volition service arsenic the easiest mode for you to determination screenshots and videos from the console onto your phone, computer, oregon internet.

To determination screenshots previously, you had to popular a Switch’s SD paper retired from down its kickstand and slot it into different device. You could besides stock images and videos straight to Facebook and, until past year, X / Twitter by linking your Switch to accounts connected either of those platforms …

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