{"id":84222,"date":"2026-06-09T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84222"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:37:10","slug":"if-youve-been-sitting-on-xenoblade-chronicles-you-have-no-excuse-with-these-new-switch-2-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84222","title":{"rendered":"If You\u2019ve Been Sitting On Xenoblade Chronicles, You Have No Excuse With These New Switch 2 Editions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xenoblade Chronicles has been one of Nintendo&#8217;s most significant JRPG series in recent years, but also at a scope pushing the original Switch hardware beyond its limits. So if you&#8217;ve been waiting for a better opportunity to experience these games, Nintendo has announced during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-direct-june-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nintendo-direct-june-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-and-games\/\">summer Nintendo Direct<\/a> that all three mainline games will be receiving Nintendo Switch 2 editions. And the first game is out digitally today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally released for Wii, the first Xenoblade Chronicles almost wasn&#8217;t released outside of Japan until a fan campaign convinced Nintendo to localise the game. Since then, it&#8217;s earned a reputation for being one of the best JRPGs, with epic storylines set on vast semi-open world environments.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vTaD8maruNs  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there was a free Switch 2 update for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 that improved its performance, the newly announced Switch 2 editions mean that all three mainline games will be getting enhanced visuals and performance, giving you the most definitive version of each game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That doesn&#8217;t mean this is just for newcomers, since if you already bought these games on Switch, there&#8217;s also an upgrade path as with other Switch 2 edition releases. But for fans who have already put in hundreds of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenoblade Chronicles has been one of Nintendo&#8217;s most significant JRPG series in recent years, but also at a scope pushing the original Switch hardware beyond its limits. So if you&#8217;ve been waiting for a better opportunity to experience these games, Nintendo has announced during the summer Nintendo Direct that all three mainline games will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":84224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84225,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84222\/revisions\/84225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}