Logitech is the primary webcam maker to substantiate to The Verge that the overwhelming majority of its cameras work — all of them, in reality, save for the high-end Logitech Brio 4K.
“All of our webcams besides Brio 4K work out of the field with Swap 2,” Logitech spokesperson Leila Lewis definitively tells The Verge.
When the Nintendo Swap 2 launched three weeks in the past, webcam producers had no thought which cameras could be appropriate with the brand new Swap, and a number of the best-reviewed cameras merely didn’t work. It was a bizarre thriller, a wild west, and webcam makers needed to determine it out on their very own.
Many didn’t actually have a Swap 2 to check with, my sources inform me, and needed to compete with customers to purchase the fastest-selling sport console of all time. Nor did Nintendo present compatibility tips, it appears, as producers like Elgato and Ugreen needed to reverse-engineer why their seemingly appropriate cameras weren’t displaying up after they plugged them in.
However that thriller now appears to be solved — the solutions are usually not what we anticipated! — and producers at the moment are seemingly free to replace any of their firmware-updatable webcams and make them appropriate with the brand new Swap.
Logitech doesn’t appear to be promising an replace for the Brio 4K. “Brio 4K is constructed with the safety features of Home windows Good day that aren’t supported on the Swap 2 anyway,” Lewis tells The Verge.
However once more, all its different webcams reportedly work — which gained’t be all that shocking to anybody who’s been following the webcam saga. When Nintendo and webcam makers weren’t initially in a position to present lists of working webcams, Redditors crowdsourced their own list, which incorporates way more working webcams from Logitech than another producer.
A number of Redditors say you may even get the Brio 4K working if you need, with a firmware downgrade. Do this at your personal danger, although.
To this point, Elgato and Ugreen have dedicated to upgrading particular cameras to work with the Nintendo Swap 2. Obsbot has generically confirmed it can do some type of firmware updates, and Insta360 continues to be trying into it. Anker is non-committal.