Logitech is the primary webcam maker to verify to The Verge that the overwhelming majority of its cameras work — all of them, in actual fact, save for the high-end Logitech Brio 4K.
“All of our webcams besides Brio 4K work out of the field with Change 2,” Logitech spokesperson Leila Lewis definitively tells The Verge.
When the Nintendo Change 2 launched three weeks in the past, webcam producers had no concept which cameras can be suitable with the brand new Change, and a number of the best-reviewed cameras merely didn’t work. It was a weird mystery, a wild west, and webcam makers needed to determine it out on their very own.
Many didn’t also have a Change 2 to check with, my sources inform me, and needed to compete with customers to purchase the fastest-selling game 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 suitable cameras weren’t displaying up after they plugged them in.
However that thriller now appears to be solved — the answers are not what we expected! — and producers are actually seemingly free to replace any of their firmware-updatable webcams and make them suitable with the brand new Change.
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 Change 2 anyway,” Lewis tells The Verge.
However once more, all its different webcams reportedly work — which received’t be all that stunning 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.
Just a few Redditors say you’ll be able to even get the Brio 4K working if you would like, with a firmware downgrade. Do this at your personal threat, although.
Thus far, Elgato and Ugreen have dedicated to upgrading specific cameras to work with the Nintendo Change 2. Obsbot has generically confirmed it’ll do some type of firmware updates, and Insta360 remains to be wanting into it. Anker is non-committal.