Nintendo Switch 2 Hardware Setting Change Upgrades Your Playing Experience

Nintendo has released a new update for Switch 2 which addresses some visual bugs with the system, and users are now being urged to change their settings.

If you play your Nintendo Switch 2 in Docked Mode, you may have been aware of a technical issue with the HDR implementation on the console.

At launch, the Nintendo Switch 2 had an issue with the way the HDR was implemented. Many users were disappointed to find that the image was rather washed out, and required a little more effort to try and get it working properly.

The problem was down to a botched calibration process messing with the brightness, making it tricky for users to land on the correct settings.

The original calibration process featured dual images of the sun, and users had to count clicks to estimate peak brightness. This led to images being washed out as a result of the process being quite unintuitive.

In a new update for Switch 2 consoles, Nintendo has seemingly fixed this issue. As reported by HDTVTest’s Vincent Teoh, the latest update seems to have streamlined this process by making it far easier for users to calibrate their TV’s HDR functions with the console.

Official Nintendo Switch 2 promo image, Nintendo

As a result, users are now being urged to change their HDR settings to get the best image quality possible while playing in Docked Mode.

By going to the Adjust HDR setting on your Switch 2 console’s display settings, pressing Y will enable viewing the actual peak brightness value in nits, with each click representing 10 nits.

Use this to calculate the best HDR setting for you to use.

Users with proper HGIG support or source-based tone mapping are being recommended to enable HGIG and raise peak brightness until the right sun disappears.

At the same time, leave paper white at its default setting if you’re playing in a bright room, or reduce by 200 nits for darker rooms.

However, for displays without HGIG, reduce peak brightness by around 1,000 nits and paper white settings by 200 nits, which should minimise clipping and preserve contrast.

Now that we’re six months on from the release of the Nintendo Switch 2, it’s good to see that Nintendo has finally addressed this issue with the console.

Many users were disappointed in the platform’s supposed lack of decent HDR support, and this change should hopefully mean that players can get crisp visual quality with little effort.