backwards compatibility is pog
My Steam Deck is backwards compatible with all Nintendo consoles.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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i also have a steamdeck. i just thought it was neat that this was confirmed, its not deeper than that
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Backwards compatiblity for one generation is the bare minimum.
Why make your games backwards compatible, if you can rerelease them for a premium? 🤑
well i think the switch was only not backwards compatible with the wii u because like the switch from discs to cartridges and from power pc to arm like it just wasnt feasible i reckon. switch 2 from the leaks seems to be just a higher powered and slightly bigger nintendo switch so backwards compatibility is a no brainer. but its good to have the confirmation
These are all shortcomings because backwards compatiblity was not a consideration. Compare the Wii, which essentially had a whole GameCube in it for backwards compatiblity.
I prefer this announcement instead. I like Nintendo games but hate the company for taking down emulators and sueing indie devs for a really dumb reason.
would be even better if they had not killed all the emulators...
my guess is the backwards compatibility is the reason they went after those because it means switch 2 games are probably as easy to emulate as switch games, as they share the same structure, operating system and so on. they probably didnt like that. im not shilling for nintendo with this meme, i just thought it was neat to get that confirmed because we didnt really know what the case would be.
This is precisely the reason they killed them though
I mean yeah backwards compatibility is great, but we've seen this before. We lost the GBA slot in the DSI and 3DS. WiiU removed GameCube Disk functionality. They cut backwards compatibility when they stop producing the previous generation's media. This isn't the extension of the Switch's lifespan, it's the beginning of it's death.
The WiiU was a successor console to the Wii, not a midlife refresh.
That's my point. We lose backward compatibility in the next console.
maybe altho they seem more keen to work on a single system and have it be more of an upgrade each time. also its worth pointing out that leadership at nintendo has changed quite a bit and they restructured the whole company in 2015 in order to focus on just one system at a time. So who knows. All I can say is its good to have it confirmed that the next system is backwards compatible, because we werent 100% on that.
What I want to know is if Switch 2 will be able to run Switch 1 games at a higher clock speed, or if it'll just do what N3DS did. My fear is that every game that ought to be running on Switch 2 already got ported to Switch 1 poorly, and won't get re-ported.
If there is one thing we can be sure of, it's that there will be an updated version of Skyrim for the Switch 2.
This is nice as I have a ton of games I haven't opened since my family accidentally broke my Switch. Never bothered to repair or replace it since I keep worrying that as soon as I do, the next console will be announced.
yeah at this point id just wait for the next one, furukawa said it will be announced before april 2025 so it will come out sometime next year
I'm excited, even though the odds of me buying the new one in the near future are slim. Between all the Xenoblades, the new X remaster, Prime 4 and my other backlog I already have lots of games I can play on what I own. I'll wait on the inevitable 3D Mario, and only consider the thing when a new Xenoblade or Metroid launches (or if there's a day-one exploit, my current Switch is objectively the worst one they made 'cause it's patched but still with the bad battery life).
That said, the fact that more details regarding backwards compatibility even can be announced is worrying. You've already said it plays Switch software, anything added to that can only mean asterisks, right?
i mean maybe they announce how to transfer your save data or if certain titles will get patches to improve performance. idk nintendo is often vague in these statements and "more info" could mean anything and nothing
surely they'd have to go out of their way to make it not be backwards compatible?
A lot of past Nintendo consoles have made pretty major changes to the hardware and operating system compared to other console manufacturers, which makes backwards compatibility less likely. The Wii U basically booted into the Wii operating system to play those games. I imagine getting Wii U games running on the Switch wouldn't be the easiest thing to do, though certainly not impossible. We don't know a ton about what changes the Switch successor will make, so it wasn't outside the realm of possibility that it would be the same.
Anyone else think that was a pony tail until they sat up?