Image: Square Enix
Nintendo released its latest firmware update for Switch 2 last night, ushering in a handful of general improvements for the console. Alongside these tweaks, the update also appears to have coincided with some compatibility fixes, including one title we’ve been waiting to see up and running for a while: NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition (thanks for the heads up, My Nintendo News).
Square Enix and PlatinumGames’ sci-fi ARPG has long been sitting in a pretty bad way on Switch 2, with many users reporting frequent crashes when trying to get it up and running on the new hardware. A glance at Nintendo’s compatibility information site before today listed NieR: Automata as “Unsupported – Problems with game progression have been found”, but that all seems to be in the rear-view as of system update 21.0.1.
As of 25th November 2025 (that’s today), the game’s listing has been updated as “supported” on Switch 2, with the note that “previously identified issues have been fixed”.
It’s a welcome change, because NieR: Automata ruled on Switch 1, and now we have the perfect excuse to dive in all over again. In our 9/10 review of the initial Switch release, we described Automata as “a top-notch port that has clearly been produced with respect and focus, often surpassing our expectations in both visuals and performance”. *Sigh* as if we didn’t already have enough backlog games to get through before the year is up…
Will you be checking our NieR: Automata on Switch 2 now that it’s up and running? Let us know in the comments.
[source switch-software-compatibility.nintendo.com, via mynintendonews.com]
Related Games
See Also
Jim came to Nintendo Life in 2022 and, despite his insistence that The Minish Cap is the best Zelda game and his unwavering love for the Star Wars prequels (yes, really), he has continued to write news and features on the site ever since.