While we're still reeling from the random Nintendo Today app announcement of a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Splatoon game, Nintendo has also released a brand new patch for Splatoon 3 to introduce some new upgrades for players on Switch 2.

Splatoon 3's getting a Switch 2 upgrade will result in some big changes in what the original Switch version can render in. order to balance network performance across both platforms.

Hooray! Splatoon 3 is one of our favourite Switch games and today it got a snazzy (free) Switch 2 upgrade which, as we reported earlier, takes advantage of the extra power of Nintendo's new machine. But according to the patch notes, when players are splatting on Switch 1, they'll notice some downgrades compared to how it used to be.

Nintendo has deployed an update for Splatoon 3, improving how it looks and runs on Nintendo Switch 2. Check out the update 10.0.0. patch notes.

A new update is coming to Splatoon 3, and Nintendo has now laid out everything to expect, including all of the new weapons arriving.