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Nintendo to Release Switch Games Until March 2025 (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (15 children)

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?

[–] EternalWarBear@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FunkyCasual@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Let's not forget the real pro gamer mover

GBA -> DS

[–] EternalWarBear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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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