Nintendo Switch 2 Exploit Finally Gets YouTube Working Via Free Game
Topics: Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo, Youtube
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Topics: Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo, Youtube
The Nintendo Switch 2 is Nintendo’s most-powerful console yet but you'd be forgiven if you hadn’t noticed.
First-party games have been surprisingly barren on the system and while, yes, it’s still technically in its infancy gamers are struggling to justify why they bought a console that plays more last-gen games than it does new ones. To be fair PlayStation and Xbox owners have been in the same boat.
The Nintendo Switch 2 in particular though has been especially annoying when you remember it lacks basic apps as well.
Unlike the Nintendo Switch the Nintendo Switch 2 doesn’t have native YouTube support, but a free game randomly changes that with a bizarre exploit…
As shared by KirPinkFury on X, to get YouTube on your Nintendo Switch 2 you have to download a free game from the eShop.
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The game you’re after is called Super Animal Royale, a Fortnite-like battling game where animals wage war with a variety of weapons, but only one can be victorious.
It’s currently free-to-play and you can watch an assortment of videos in the News section of its main menu.
Turns out when you click on one of these videos it’ll take you out of the game and dump you on YouTube, but rather than watch the video you initially clicked on you can instead navigate the site yourself and find something different to watch.
You can watch YouTube on the Nintendo Switch 2 by downloading Super Animal Royale. It's a free game on the eshop. pic.twitter.com/enIE4bV3Ba
— Kabi (@KirPinkFury) May 5, 2026
This is currently the closest Nintendo Switch 2 owners can get to a supported YouTube app and it’s hidden in a free game.
As funny as that is, we'd imagine it’ll be short-lived as Nintendo will probably want the feature scrapped until an actual app is up and running. That said it’s not exactly hurting anyone nor is it illegal in any way so perhaps it’ll be left alone instead.
Whatever the case the exploit is probably going to lead to an influx of players in Super Animal Royale, just not with the intention of playing the game.
Official YouTube support for the Nintendo Switch 2 has been teased for some time now but we’re yet to see it actually materialise.
It can’t be difficult to get working as the first Nintendo Switch handled it just fine, so we’re speculating that it must simply be a case of low priorities.
YouTube especially has bigger fish to fry as it was discovered the other day that the video browser was eating up all of the RAM on your PC, even going as far as crashing them in some cases.
That’s not ideal especially given the current RAM crisis gripping the PC industry. It’s a mess.
Fingers-crossed the Nintendo Switch 2 gets official YouTube support later this year though. That said if we had to pick between YouTube and more first-party games we’d 100% choose the latter…
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