• treefrog@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The clearest hint yet that a Switch 2 is arriving next year came last month when Nintendo showed game developers a version of Breath of the Wild running on Switch 2 hardware behind closed doors at Gamescom.

    Backwards compatibility?

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      I see them pulling a DS to 3DS jump. Better hardware and the cartridge is different shaped to prevent the games being played on the DS. Just in switch form this go around.

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        1 year ago

        I'd love to upgrade the hardware but if I can't play my cartridges and downloaded games without repurchasing I won't anytime soon.

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          I think the above is saying they made the 3ds game carts a different shape so you couldn't fit the 3ds carts in a DS. But you could fit a DS cart in a 3ds.

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            Same with Gameboy -> Gameboy Color, and Gameboy + Gameboy Color -> Gameboy Advanced. Nintendo has a better history than most of supporting backwards compatibility

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            Yeah, that's where I was going with it. Thought about breaking it into two separate sentences. But in my head it seemed weird to state "hardware upgrade and cartridge shape" separately. Probably should've thought for clarity.

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        i'm excited to see the eshop render at more than five frames per second. it performs so bad its beyond irritating and into hilarious, like I just crack up trying to use it.

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          The eShop on Switch is horrendous. How did they manage such a good experience on the 3DS and then take such a huge step back with it on a much more advanced console?

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            The 3DS shop had its quirks, but was pretty good nonetheless. I wouldn't touch the switch one with a teen foot pole.

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      They'd be insane to not make it backwards compatible. It doesn't seem like they are drastically changing the form factor and they made a lot of games work with both Switch and WiiU so it would make sense for Switch2 to work with all Switch games.

      If it's NOT backwards compatible, people will only buy it for Switch 2 games. If it is backwards compatible, people may buy it just go get a better Switch for playing Switch 1 games and older games in better quality. I.e. a Switch upgrade.