{"id":677887,"date":"2026-06-01T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677887\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:16:19","slug":"minecraft-seems-to-be-coming-to-nintendo-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677887\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft seems to be coming to Nintendo Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minecraft-Switch-2-rating.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Minecraft-Switch-2-rating-656x369.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A year following the launch of Nintendo Switch 2, it looks like Minecraft is on track to receive its own version for the console.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esrb.org\/ratings\/41264\/minecraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rating<\/a> for the game just popped up in the ESRB classification database. To clarify, this is a separate entry from the Nintendo Switch version \u2013 Switch 2 is specifically listed.<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft is already available on Nintendo Switch 2 via backwards compatibility. In other words, you can play the Nintendo Switch 1 version on the system. However, a native Nintendo Switch 2 version could bring new benefits for players.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s definitely great that we have Minecraft on Nintendo Switch \u2013 and the game sold extremely well there \u2013 it came with limitations. Bringing it over to Nintendo\u2019s latest console could offer performance, image quality, stability, and other improvements across the board.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that Minecraft could be announced during an upcoming showcase \u2013 a lot of those will be happening over the next week. A Nintendo Switch 2 version could also just drop on its own. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for any official announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Have you played Minecraft on Nintendo Switch and are you interested in seeing what a Switch 2 version has to offer? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>We have a whole bunch of other news about Minecraft for you <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/tag\/minecraft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year following the launch of Nintendo Switch 2, it looks like Minecraft is on track to receive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12624,242577,74,1867,7476],"class_list":["post-677887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-minecraft","tag-mojang","tag-technology","tag-top","tag-xbox-game-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}