The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis seeing a resurgence in players following the release of the game’s Switch 2 version. In fact, this version of the game is currently thehighest-rated game on Metacritic in 2025, holding a score of 95.
The Switch 2 version of Tears of the Kingdom has a few notable improvements. There are the usual upgrades: improved framerates and resolution, HDR support and so on. There’s also increased integration with Nintendo’s phone app, allowing you to listen to audio logs found in-game, on your phone.
There’s also an interesting new feature unique to Tears of the Kingdom’s Switch 2 port. You can now share builds with other players using QR codes, allowing you to quickly reconstruct community builds.
This new feature appears to have spawned some new exploits, as there’s a specific QR code going around that lets you spawn an infinite number of dogs.
Dogs are present in both Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild. Feeding a dog allows you to befriend it, and it may lead you to treasure as a thank-you.
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This exploit can be seen above. In the video, Link continuously spawns more and more dogs until the entire field is full of canine companions. Unfortunately, Nintendo neglected to add the ability to pet these friendly creatures, so now we have a field full of unpetted good boys. How unfortunate.
The specific QR code needed for this exploit hasn’t been made readily available, but there are murmurings of where to find it if one looks deep enough. Interestingly, there is no central way to share QR codes within Tears of the Kingdom, so one must seek out forum posts and Discord servers to share builds.
The $10 price of upgrading one’s Tears of the Kingdom to the Switch 2 version originally attracted some controversy, but that hasn’t seemed to affect the sales of either the console or the upgrade. There are currently very few first-party titles available on the Switch 2 (with Mario Kart World being the only new one), which may have contributed to the renewed success of Tears of the Kingdom.
