backwards compatibility is pog

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      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

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        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.

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    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.

    lol (image)

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      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.

  • Peachy [they/them] @lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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

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      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.