GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Today, Nintendo announced that Minecraft will be coming to Switch 2 in 2026, with improvements over its Switch 1 counterpart.

Mojang Studios will release a native Switch 2 version of Minecraft in 2026, the developer announced. Vibrant Visuals is Minecraft ‘s biggest visual graphics update to date, and it’ll come enabled as the default graphics setting in the native Switch 2 version!

Minecraft Bedrock 26.30.25/26 beta and preview has arrived recently, and the new release introduces a variety of new content from the game’s upcoming .

Mojang has a fresh Minecraft content update landing in just a few days, but ahead of it, it is making some changes to how it identifies each version of the game. Since the official launch of Minecraft 1.0 in 2011, the developer behind the sandbox sensation ...

Minecraft: Java Edition is the original version of the game for computers, while Bedrock is a newer version available on nearly every device.