{"id":775242,"date":"2026-02-19T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/775242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:54:18","slug":"xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition-gets-nintendo-switch-2-upgrade-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/775242\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition Gets Nintendo Switch 2 Upgrade, Out Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Hey, who&#8217;s enjoying their Thursday? And who&#8217;s looking forward to playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition-nintendo-switch-2-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/a> later today?<\/p>\n<p>Yep, you read that correctly \u2014 Nintendo has just dropped the Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_x_definitive_edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition<\/a>, which landed on Switch in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>If you already own the game on Switch, the upgrade pack will cost <strong>\u00a34.19 \/ $4.99<\/strong>. Or if you don&#8217;t have the game yet, then you can grab the Switch 2 Edition on the eShop for <strong>\u00a354.99 \/ $64.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Those rumoured 60fps frames you thought would come eventually? They&#8217;re right here in this upgrade pack. Docked resolution has also received a bump to 4K \u2014 if you have a TV that supports it. Otherwise, it&#8217;ll just look smoother across the board.<\/p>\n<p>A physical release will follow on 16th April 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d560fa32d3866\/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition\"\/><\/a><a title=\"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c5d5e3f42e9dd\/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771520056_406_xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition.445x250.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition\"\/><\/a> Images: Nintendo<br \/>\n<a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/95518f5e0566d\/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Will you be grabbing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition? Been waiting for the upgrade to arrive? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>About Alana Hagues<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744185429_510_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Alana Hagues\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alana has been with Nintendo Life since 2022, and while RPGs are her first love, Nintendo is a close second. She enjoys nothing more than overthinking battle strategies, characters, and stories. She also wishes she was a Sega air pirate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey, who&#8217;s enjoying their Thursday? And who&#8217;s looking forward to playing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition &#8211; Nintendo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[270,53,16,15,219437],"class_list":{"0":"post-775242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-xenoblade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116098345969041227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}