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Peripherals also face a rocky road when making the jump to Nintendo’s Switch 2

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Excited to watch some anime on your Nintendo Switch 2? Well,too damn bad.

Nothing is sacred, especially anime. However, the Crunchyroll app is just one of 100+ identified software casualties that will not be compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2 at launch.

Nintendopublished testing datafor over 15,000 Nintendo Switch titles on May 27, measuring their compatibility with the Nintendo Switch 2, and over 100 games and apps are either completely incompatible or refuse to play nicely with the company’s upcoming handheld console.

The question is: are you going to be missing out on your favorite Nintendo Switch title when the Switch 2 drops on June 5? We know anime is dead (cries in Jujutsu Kaisen), but here’s a look at everything else Nintendo fans will be losing access to.

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100+ games and apps DOA for Nintendo Switch 2 launch

There are quite a few games, some you might not have heard before, and others that are near and dear to you.

Nintendo published the full list in three separate PDFs: games with somecompatibility issues, games withstart-up issues, and games that will befixed at or post-launch.

Some of the more popular titles that fail to start up include:Dead by Daylight,Final Fantasy,Little Nightmares,Warframe,Rocket League, andWolfenstein II: The New Colossus.

Half of these are online multiplayer games with a huge player base. I mean, can you tell me about a monster thatisn’tinDead by Daylight? Even Vecna is in there!

(For the uncultured, Vecna is an infamous monster from Dungeons & Dragons, popularized by Matthew Mercer’s portrayal of him in Critical Role — Mercer even portrayed him in the game!)

While Nintendo provided a list of all the games that have “issues,” there isn’t a document that states which titles are 100% not compatible. In the chart it published, there seems to be a number of them, but it’s unclear which.

But in terms of software, you’ll find these apps are DOA: Crunchyroll, Hulu, InkyPen, ABEMA, and Niconico.

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A chart shared by Nintendo (above) shows the percentage of Nintendo Switch games that are incompatible with the Nintendo Switch 2, which includes games likeDead by Daylight,Final Fantasy,Little Nightmares,Warframe,Rocket League, andWolfenstein II: The New Colossus.(Image credit: Nintendo)

Periphery pains: the Switch 2 won’t play nice with Switch accessories, either

Don’t play any of the affected titles? Well, did you happen to purchase the ridiculous range of peripheral-based games on the original Switch? Then I have some bad news for you, too: theNintendo Labo,Ring Fit Adventure, andNintendo Switch Sportsaccessories aren’t compatible with the Joy-Con 2 controllers.

Even if they were, the Joy-Con 2 controllers don’t feature an IR motion camera, so full functionality wouldn’t be possible. Thankfully, you can still connect the Switch’s original Joy-Con controllers to the Switch 2 and get the authentic experience.

What’s next

Nintendo is still testing these titles, so we may get some more wins and losses along the way ahead of the handheld console’s official release on June 5.

Overall, I hope that developers continue to work with Nintendo to make these games and software compatible, otherwise, we’re all going to be out of anime (cough), I mean,I’m so disappointed aboutFall Guyshaving compatibility issues.

Apple’s Self Service Repair program is expanding to the iPad, the tech giantannouncedon Wednesday. The program will give iPad owners the tools they need to repair their devices at home. They can get access to repair manuals, genuine Apple parts, Apple Diagnostics troubleshooting sessions, tools, and rental toolkits.

Starting Thursday, users who have an iPad Air (M2 and later), iPad Pro (M4), iPad mini (A17 Pro), and iPad (A16) can order repair kits and components, including displays, batteries, cameras, and external charging ports.

“At Apple, our goal is to create the world’s greatest products that last as long as possible,” said Brian Naumann, Apple’s vice president of AppleCare, in a press release. “With today’s announcement, we’re excited to expand our repair services to more customers, enabling them to further extend the life of their products — all without compromising safety, security, or privacy.”

Launched in 2022, Self Service Repair allows consumers to do their own repairs at home if they’re comfortable doing so by getting access to the same manuals used at Apple Store locations and Apple Authorized Service Providers.

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Apple says the program now supports 65 Apple products, including the recently released iPhone 16e, MacBook Air, and Mac Studio. The company shared that Canada will soon become the 34th country where Apple offers Self Service Repair.

Apple also revealed more details about its Genuine Parts Distributor program, which allows independent mobile repair professionals to order genuine Apple service parts and components. These parts are available via authorized third-party distributors, such as MobileSentrix in the U.S., plus MobileSentrix and Mobileparts.shop in Europe. Genuine Parts Distributor offers many Apple parts for iPhone repairs, including displays, batteries, and charging ports, with iPad parts coming tomorrow.

And that goes for other Apple software, too

When Apple opens up itsWWDC2025 developers conference in a couple of weeks, we expect to see an interface overhaul of all the software that controls its phones, computers, tablets and wearables. And it may not just be the look of the software that’s changing.

Along with aesthetic changes, Apple will reportedly rebrand its many operating systems, in an effort to have consistent names across its lineup.

That comes fromBloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is reporting that Apple wants to switch to year-based names. That means the iPhone software update we were expecting to be callediOS 19would instead go by iOS 26 — as in 2026. The rest of Apple’s software — iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS 26 and visionOS 26 — would follow the same pattern.

The name changes would accompany a more unified approach to the interfaces of Apple’s software.Codenamed Solarium, the refresh is expected to introduce more translucent panels and rounded icons, taking its cues from visionOS on Apple’sVision Pro headset.

The idea behind the common look is to deliver a more unified experience across different Apple devices. And that same thinking apparently applies to what the software should be called, too.

Currently, the various OSes all have different version numbers — iOS 18, macOS 15 and watchOS 12, to name a few. Under the new system, you wouldn’t have to remember what version number a particular OS was on — you’d just have to refer to the year.

The potential rebrand is reminiscent of a similar move rival Samsung made in 2020 when it change the Galaxy S line to a launch year naming convention with theGalaxy S20series. The previous year’s devices were the Galaxy S10, the 10th generation of Galaxy S phones.

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The difference here though is that Apple is using the upcoming year, rather than the launch year. Despite its new operating systems likely launching in September around the release of theiPhone 17, they’ll be named for 2026, similar to how car companies label the latest iterations of their vehicles which also tend to launch in the fall.

Gurman has a good track record of reporting on Apple developments, so we’re inclined to believe that this will be the case in a couple of weeks. That said, Apple has declined to comment on the name change, and allegedly the plan is still in the works.

We’ll know more about Solarium and the rebranded OSes starting June 9 whenApple has set WWDC 2025to take place. It should be one of themost important WWDCsin over a decade.

The 40-year-old standard has finally been discarded in the Japanese consumer space.

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Earlier today, Panasonic announced refreshed models of its long-established Let’s Note laptop series. However, for the first time in its history, we have a Let’s Note portable that doesn’t have a VGA port. According to a report byNikkei Japan(machine translation), this is probably the beginning of the end for laptops sporting VGA output, with “other companies to follow suit.”

A number of factors have precipitated Panasonic’s removal of the venerable VGA port. The Nikkei report highlights the strong competition fromHDMI, which can simultaneously transmit audio. We also see that the new Panasonic Let’s Note CF-SC6 models feature a pair ofThunderbolt 4ports, which can also be used for video out. That’s three separate ports remaining on the Let’s Note to drive external displays.

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Let’s Note CF-SC6 2025 has no VGA port(Image credit: Pansonic Japan)

Another disadvantage of VGA highlighted was that it is a rather bulky port for thin and light designs like the Let’s Note. At the refreshed laptop product launch today, size and weight were confirmed to be key considerations driving forward Panasonic’s consumer designs. The newest Let’s Note laptop is just 919g in its 12-inch edition, and Panasonic Connect Executive Officer Kiyotaka Yamamoto said, “In addition to durability and long operating times, we will continue to focus on reducing the weight by even one gram.”

In its favor, the Nikkei report cites the ruggedness of the VGA port. Moreover, a university professor it talked to indicated that turning to VGA can often be the answer when connection problems with HDMI occur. It seems like the educational market is one of the few remaining segments that appreciates the inclusion of a VGA port.

The 15-pin VGA port is a very old standard, originally arriving with the 1987IBMPS/2 PC. This analog output doesn’t support as high resolutions and refresh rates as its modern rivals, of course, with themaximum specs2048×1536px (QXGA) @85 Hz. Naturally, VGA is also losing support from visual output peripheral makers releasing new monitors, TVs, and projectors.

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VGA ports long-gone from western brand laptops

Mainstream laptop brands available in the West mostly phased out VGA ports in the 2010s. Usually, HDMI took its place. More recently, popular American brands have sought to minimize laptop ports and standardize on Thunderbolt /USB-Cfor everything. This offers simplicity, standard docking equipment, and facilitates thinner/lighter portables.

Reading this news from the West, we are again struck by how ‘futuristic’ Japan seemingly clings to the oldest technologies. For example, we reported on Japanese bureaucracy stillrequiring floppy disksand/or optical media in the 2020s, despite efforts to phase them out.

Nikkei reports that Panasonic was basically the last bastion of support for the VGA port in consumer laptops. Fujitsu phased out the port in 2019, and NEC too. Yet both these rivals appear to retain some designs with VGA ports for corporate markets.

Ahead of the Switch 2’s June 5 launch, Nintendo provided an update on which Switch games aren’t fullybackwards compatiblewith the new console. The list includes several games with issues that are currently being investigated, as well as some video streaming apps.

Ever since the Switch 2’s announcement, Nintendo has been vague about what Switch games would and wouldn’t work on its new console. Many fans previously assumed that backwards compatibility issues would be limited to games thatutilized the Joy-con’s IR sensors. Nintendo has now clarified exactly what won’t work on the new system, as well as what games currently have problems that it plans to address around launch day.The list of apps that won’t work at all is small and mostly pertains to streaming apps. Hulu and Crunchyroll won’t work on Switch 2, in addition to InkyPen, Niconico, and Abema. Aside from those, the only game that outright isn’t compatible with the console is the Nintendo Labo’s VR kit, as the newly designed device won’t fit in the cardboard headset.

Aside from that small list, Nintendo shared a much longer list of games that currently have issues that are being investigated. Games with start up issues includeDead by Daylight,South Park: The Fractured But Whole,Warframe, and the YouTube app. There is no official word on whether or not those issues will be fixed.

Alongside that list, Nintendo released a list of games that currently have problems, but it plans to resolve by or around launch. That list includesDoom: Eternal,Fortnite, andPizza Tower.

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Nintendo also confirmed a list of games which will not be playable with the Switch 2’s newly designed Joy-cons. Those games will still work on Switch 2, but players will need to connect the original Switch’s Joy-cons to play them.

• Ring Fit Adventure
• 1-2 Switch
• Everybody 1-2 Switch!
• Game Builder Garage
• Nintendo Switch Sports
• WarioWare: Move It!
• Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit
• Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 02: Robot Kit
• Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Vehicle Kit

TheNintendo Switch 2launches on June 5.