Logitech says all its webcams work with Nintendo Switch 2, save one
- Logitech has confirmed that all its webcams work with the Nintendo Switch 2, except for the high-end Logitech Brio 4K.
- The company’s spokesperson, Leila Lewis, stated that “all of our webcams except Brio 4K work out of the box” with the new Switch.
- Logitech is not planning to update the Brio 4K, citing its built-in security features as incompatible with the Switch 2.
- Other manufacturers, such as Elgato and Ugreen, have committed to updating their webcams to work with the Nintendo Switch 2, while Insta360 is still investigating compatibility.
- A firmware downgrade may be possible for the Brio 4K, but users are warned to do so at their own risk.
If you’re looking for a webcam that works with the Nintendo Switch 2’s new GameChat mode that lets you video chat with friends and see their faces within games, it looks like the biggest brand in PC accessories is still your best bet.
Logitech is the first webcam maker to confirm to The Verge that the vast majority of its cameras work — all of them, in fact, save for the high-end Logitech Brio 4K.
“All of our webcams except Brio 4K work out of the box with Switch 2,” Logitech spokesperson Leila Lewis definitively tells The Verge.
When the Nintendo Switch 2 launched three weeks ago, webcam manufacturers had no idea which cameras would be compatible with the new Switch, and some of the best-reviewed cameras simply didn’t work. It was a weird mystery, a wild west, and webcam makers had to figure it out on their own.
Many didn’t even have a Switch 2 to test with, my sources tell me, and had to compete with consumers to buy the fastest-selling game console of all time. Nor did Nintendo provide compatibility guidelines, it seems, as manufacturers like Elgato and Ugreen had to reverse-engineer why their seemingly compatible cameras weren’t showing up when they plugged them in.
But that mystery now seems to be solved — the answers are not what we expected! — and manufacturers are now seemingly free to update any of their firmware-updatable webcams and make them compatible with the new Switch.
Logitech doesn’t seem to be promising an update for the Brio 4K. “Brio 4K is built with the security features of Windows Hello that are not supported on the Switch 2 anyway,” Lewis tells The Verge.
But again, all its other webcams reportedly work — which won’t be all that surprising to anyone who’s been following the webcam saga. When Nintendo and webcam makers weren’t originally able to provide lists of working webcams, Redditors crowdsourced their own list, which includes far more working webcams from Logitech than any other manufacturer.
A few Redditors say you can even get the Brio 4K working if you want, with a firmware downgrade. Do that at your own risk, though.
So far, Elgato and Ugreen have committed to upgrading specific cameras to work with the Nintendo Switch 2. Obsbot has generically confirmed it will do some sort of firmware updates, and Insta360 is still looking into it. Anker is non-committal.