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Minecraft Dungeons II: upgrade or cross-buy for "Switch 2 edition"

Minecraft Dungeons II launches on Switch and Switch 2 on the same day, but on the Nintendo eShop they are two completely separate products with no connection between them. The Switch 2 version is not a "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition", so there is no upgrade pack, and buying one version gives you nothing toward the other.

This creates a real problem for Switch 2 owners. The two eShop listings look almost identical, and the purchase screen does not make the difference obvious. I own a Switch 2, pre-ordered the game, and only found out afterwards that I had bought the Switch 1 version. The pre-order was already charged, Nintendo does not refund digital purchases after payment, and the only way to actually play the Switch 2 version is to buy the whole game again at full price.

There are two easy fixes, and both already exist on the platform:

1. Cross-buy: owning the Switch 1 version makes the Switch 2 version 100% off on the same Nintendo account. Deltarune does exactly this on the eShop, with no extra engineering work.
2. A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack, free or low-cost, like many other cross-generation titles.

Either option would fix the mistaken-purchase problem, let families with both consoles play together, and make the Switch 2 version an easy choice instead of a second full-price purchase. Please consider adding one of these before launch or in an early post-launch update.

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    I completely agree, it’s odd that there isn’t an upgrade option like with many of their other games. The only reason I can think of that they haven’t done it is that there may be little to no differences between the two versions, but then why have two separate versions at all?

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    I did the same thing, then I checked recently and saw that I had to re purchase it instead of getting an upgrade pack like other games have had, I didn't buy it cuss it's a waste just so I can get some better quality