In late 2023 and 2024, a new wrinkle appeared in the Crackwatch sphere regarding Nintendo properties: .

The Switch uses a different architecture (NVIDIA Tegra) and different security protocols. For a long time, the "crack" for Switch games was not a software patch you applied to a PC executable, but rather a method of bypassing the console's signature checks. On Crackwatch, this often results in a confusing status. Technically, the game wasn't "cracked" in the traditional PC sense (because a PC version didn't exist), but it was fully playable on modified Switch hardware on Day One.