Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 got shiny new Nintendo Switch 2 edition announcements today, which should be great news! Both of these games are fantastic, meaty RPGs, gorgeous in HD-2D, and likely even prettier with the improved resolution and framerate of the upgraded edition. You would think, in 2026, that if someone who already owned one of these games on Switch wanted to play the upgraded version on their Switch 2, they could maybe shell out $10 or so for the improvements. Or, heck, even get an upgrade for free given that it\u2019s literally just a visual buff and there\u2019s no new content. But Square Enix has once again lost its dang mind, and is insisting on charging full price for these things regardless of whether or not you already own them on Switch 1.<\/p>\n
We know this from tiny text in the trailer at the final splash screen, which reads, \u201cThere are no plans to sell an upgrade pack to upgrade the Nintendo Switch version to the Nintendo Switch 2 version.\u201d This is so, so silly! It is also almost certainly leaving money on the table! Octopath Traveler and the sequel are both $60 on Switch 1 (when they\u2019re not on sale, which they currently are). I imagine the Switch 2 version will cost about the same amount. If you don\u2019t own it, that\u2019s great; just hold off until the October 1 release and buy the better version. But if I already own it, I\u2019m not going to shell out a second\u00a0$60 to play a marginally nicer-looking version. I just won\u2019t play the upgrade at all. I would, however, seriously consider paying $10 for an upgrade to a game I already have. I imagine I\u2019m not alone in this.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s even more irritating is that save data isn\u2019t compatible between the two versions, so even if you did spend the large quantity of money for an upgrade to a game you already own, you\u2019ve got to start all over anyway. What\u2019s the point, man? Why even do upgrades on an eight- and three-year-old game just to continue selling them very occasionally to the handful of folks who might someday want to play them, but haven\u2019t yet?<\/p>\n
Square Enix\u2019s upgrade strategy continues to baffle me. It\u2019s inconsistent across titles, so I struggle to keep track of what\u2019s going on. For instance: Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is only available on Switch 2, not the original Switch, which makes some sense to me. However, the same is true of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster which, given its Nintendo DS origins, absolutely did not need to be a Switch 2-exclusive remake. Then there are games like the Dragon Quest remakes and Final Fantasy Tactics, which have free upgrade paths from Switch 1 to Switch 2, suggesting to me that Square Enix is perfectly willing to give fans a treat once in a while. But then Romancing Saga 2 has an upgrade that costs $10.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I guess if you\u2019re an RPG fan who for some reason hasn\u2019t picked up one of these yet, they\u2019ll be on Switch 2 on October 1. You can buy physical copies individually, or you can buy them digitally either separate or bundled. Just make sure you buy the right version, because if you screw it up, there\u2019s no free upgrade path to help you. However, if you would rather just save money and don\u2019t care about resolution and such, they\u2019re both on deep discount on Switch 1 now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 got shiny new Nintendo Switch 2 edition announcements today, which should be great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1299,5177,75,11045,74],"class_list":["post-760756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-square-enix","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760756","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=760756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}