Another peripheral maker has come forward to promote themselves with the Nintendo Switch 2, but we think hardcore gamers will find this to be a welcome announcement.
Elgato made this statement on their official Twitter account:
We’ve tested Nintendo Switch 2 and can confirm that your Elgato capture device will be able to capture games on launch.
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For the uninitiated, capture cards are devices that allow you to record gameplay from a video game console and record them on a computer. Some of these cards have to be installed on a desktop computer, but there are also external cards that give you more portable options. Elgato’s capture cards already worked on the Switch, but now they’re coming forward to join the wave of Switch 2 hype.
Elgato also shared an article where they recommended three specific capture cards to use with the Switch 2. What jumped out to us is their Game Capture Neo, which will let you do this recording on an iPad. However, their Elgato Neo X and Elgato Neo Pro will capture gameplay in 4K, so you may be best served reading their article to learn more.
It goes without saying, but these things are obviously not for everyone. Even if you want to try out video capture on a casual level, you’ll definitely need one of the more high end iPads to try it out. The minimum requirements for a compatible PC, prebuilt or custom, will definitely also be pricy for most consumers.
Elgato itself is a premium brand, and even their easy-to-understand software and hardware will still demand you study how it all works. This stuff will definitely be of most interest to Nintendo YouTubers and games press, who now have really easy options for capturing high quality footage for their videos. Truthfully, many of them may already have these capture cards anyway.
But even if you aren’t personally interested in recording gameplay, Elgato’s announcements really support what many fans have been hoping out of the Switch 2. Elgato makes it crystal clear that there are full quality 4K60 HDR or 1440p120 video outputs from Nintendo’s console. It signals once again that Nvidia has helped put Nintendo back into the technological arms race vs. Sony and Microsoft. And Nintendo alongside their third parties have put in the work to promote the idea that even if the Switch 2 won’t outperform or match the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series consoles, they can run them well enough, and portable to boot.
