Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.07)
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Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition – Ver. 1.07
- Release date: December 18th 2025
- Patch notes:
1. Additional Characters
Three long-awaited additional characters are finally here!
VENOM
Unrelenting pursuer in the dark of night
DEEP PURPLE BILLIARD PHANTOM
A legacy character with devoted followers, Venom calls his shot!
Long-range specialist who controls the battlefield by freely manipulating balls like in billiards.
Toy with your opponent using skillful positioning and magnificent shots!
UNIKA
Untarnished resounding thunderclap
TRICK WEAPON WIELDING SUPER ROOKIE
Making her debut from the TV anime, Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers!
Unika is an all-rounder with an easy-to-use moveset, recommended for beginners as well.
Unleash the power of her huge armaments to suppress the opponent!
LUCY
Elite hacker, cyberspace surfer
THE MYSTERIOUS NETRUNNER
From Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Lucy, the first guest character in the Guilty Gear series joins the roster!
Combining excellent mobility and range, her appeal lies in using her hacking abilities to overwhelm opponents with various status ailments.
2. Additional Colors
Collaboration Colors
Commemorating Lucy’s arrival, special colors have been added for multiple characters!
*Additional Character Color 16 is scheduled to be available at a later date.
3. Additional Musics
Adds numerous tracks from previous titles in addition to the themes of the new characters!
Furthermore, to commemorate Lucy’s participation, special tracks from the anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and the game Cyberpunk 2077 are also included!
Set your favorite tracks and enjoy your battle!
4. Additional Avatar Parts
Adds avatar parts for the new characters to commemorate Lucy’s arrival, along with parts inspired by David and Rebecca!
5. New Digital Figures
New digital figures for the additional characters are now available!
Obtain them via FISHING to build your collection and enjoy taking photos.
6. Battle Experience Improvements
Enhanced Training Mode
Now supports displaying frame data and other features, improving the quality of practice significantly for players of all levels, from beginners to experts.
Addition of Ranked Match
A new online mode featuring a ranking system arrives on the Switch edition!
Enjoy tense battles with players of similar skill levels.
Exclusive rewards are also available for top players in the overall and character-specific rankings!
Addition of Vote to Cancel Match Feature
Features pre-match connection status confirmation and a mid-match Vote to Cancel Match option! Provides a more comfortable and fair online battle environment.
7. Battle Version Update
Updated to Battle Ver. 4.09, which is currently deployed on other platforms!
You can now enjoy the Nintendo Switch Edition with the latest character balance.
8. New Language Support
Supporting Brazilian Portuguese
We expanded supported languages even further!
More players can now enjoy GGST in a comfortable environment.
*The following content is not supported in GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- Nintendo Switch Edition.
- Additional BGM “I Really Want to Stay at Your House”
- Additional Stages “In the Name of Peace” and “New Dawn, A Future Unfolding”
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Arc System Works
Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition – Ver. 1.02
- Release date: February 19th/20th 2025
- Patch notes:
General / Game Modes
- Queen Dizzy is now available in all battle related game modes.
- She will be available by applying the latest update.
- Queen Dizzy will not be available in Digital Figure mode in this update.
Story Mode
- Fixed an issue causing the opposite of the intended behavior for the “Suspend auto sleep mode in Play Story” option.
Battle Related
- Fixed several errors in the Command List text for moves such as Nagoriyuki’s Shizuriyuki.
- Fixed some visual errors during several animations for some characters and battle stages.
Other
- Fixed several issues causing the game to forcibly close sometimes after performing certain actions and under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue causing visual errors when switching between Handheld Mode and TV Mode on certain screens.
- Fixed an issue causing the game to become unresponsive after losing network connection under certain conditions.
- Fixed other minor issues.
- Known issues:
- This is an issue of character color no. 7~12 of Queen Dizzy being unavailable in the character select screen. We have already developed a fix for this issue and are currently preparing to deliver an update to address this in the coming days.
- Issues occur with audio playback during some scenes in Story Mode.
- Initiated matches may experience performance issues when too many people are present within the same room for Player Match mode.
- A player who didn’t make any inputs within the Player Match room might leave the room involuntarily when certain inputs are made while other players are entering or exiting the room.
- While in Online Mode, players may experience performance issues when opening Button Settings (during a match) within the Game Settings menu under certain circumstances.
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Arc System Works / Arc System Works
Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition – Ver. 1.02
- Release date: January 23rd 2025
- Patch notes:
- Adds Figure Mode
- Makes several fixes.
- Additional notes: none
- Source: Nintendo
How to download updates for Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition for the Nintendo Switch?
To download the updates for Guilty Gear -Strive- Nintendo Switch Edition, you have three options:
- let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off
If not…
- try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;
OR
- select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.
To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.
