Logitech is the primary webcam maker to substantiate to The Verge that the overwhelming majority of its cameras work — all of them, the truth is, 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 appropriate with the brand new Change, and among 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 Change 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 exhibiting up once they plugged them in.
However that thriller now appears to be solved — the solutions will not be what we anticipated! — and producers are actually seemingly free to replace any of their firmware-updatable webcams and make them appropriate 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 Hey that aren’t supported on the Change 2 anyway,” Lewis tells The Verge.
However once more, all its different webcams reportedly work — which gained’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 very own record, which incorporates way more working webcams from Logitech than some other producer.
A couple of Redditors say you’ll be able to even get the Brio 4K working if you need, with a firmware downgrade. Try this at your individual danger, although.
To this point, Elgato and Ugreen have dedicated to upgrading particular cameras to work with the Nintendo Change 2. Obsbot has generically confirmed it should do some type of firmware updates, and Insta360 continues to be trying into it. Anker is non-committal.
