Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed

• JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are claiming backwards compatibility, and I assume that means for physical copies as well. If not, eh we’ll see!

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a disclaimer that says not every Switch 1 game will work, but I think it will play on the new Switch with the same lousy performance it has now unless you buy the Switch 2 version.

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    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Another commenter elsewhere mentioned that things like Labo or Ring Fit won’t (likely) work because of the different sized controllers. I would be surprised if other games that don’t use special extra hardware work just fine.

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      • wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Normally I’d disagree (because games written for a single console don’t do well with hardware upgrades), but since the old console already runs at different speeds when handheld and docked, I’d expect most games to be able to handle faster processors safely. We’ll have to see how that shakes out. If it really does run them better, and it has drift-proof sticks, I’m quite interested. Otherwise, I’ll wait a year or 2 until there’s a good, cheap library of games for it.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah so upgrade cost identical to what Sony did? I can see them doing that … The problem with that is that the games already have the ability on the cartridge. Remember the datamine of Paper Mario TTYD remake and the higher resolution data on the cart?

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would not put it past Nintendo to charge you $70 for Tears of the Kingdom again so that you can run it at reasonable resolutions and frame rates this time.

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