Nintendo confirms the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible

Neversummer

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Not gonna happen. Unless they will make Switch 2 for 900$ which ain't happening.
Steamdeck is $400 & plays both PS4 & PS5.

I don’t think Nintendo would have to do much to have more if not all 3rd party after the success of Switch 1. Even if Switch 2 is series S or PS4 you have games like TLOU 2, Horizon, Elden Ring releasing on Series S/PS4. Either way I think 3rd party will bend over to release there games simultaneously across PS, Nintendo & PC especially japanese publisher
 

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Brah, read the press releases. Microsoft was touting how everyone was buying a 360 and a Wii, how they weren't competing platforms.

Sony is porting games to the switch, they aren't competing.

Neither companies see Nintendo as competition because handheld and low end power aren't the same as high end power. Both companies are retarded because Nintendo is about to leach 60 million PS4 owners from Sony.
We had these discussions already ad nauseum, during the ABK deal. We have official legal documents, internal documents from Ps and from Xbox.

Xbox didnt even include Nintendo in their reports for management.
 
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Steamdeck is $400 & plays both PS4 & PS5.

I don’t think Nintendo would have to do much to have more if not all 3rd party after the success of Switch 1. Even if Switch 2 is series S or PS4 you have games like TLOU 2, Horizon, Elden Ring releasing on Series S/PS4. Either way I think 3rd party will bend over to release there games simultaneously across PS, Nintendo & PC especially japanese publisher
stop with this nonsense. it plays nothing like PS4/PS5.
 

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stop with this nonsense. it plays nothing like PS4/PS5.
they didn't say it did
they said it played ps4 and ps5 games
which
it does
maybe not exceptionally well, but it can technically play them
I believe the implication is that a Switch successor could technically handle ps4 and ps5 games, if its at least as powerful as a steam deck.
 
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Thank God for that.

I was worried we will see more regurgitated HD ports of previous gen games from Nintendo.

Then again don’t count Nintendo out to do it.
 

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they didn't say it did
they said it played ps4 and ps5 games
which
it does
maybe not exceptionally well, but it can technically play them
I believe the implication is that a Switch successor could technically handle ps4 and ps5 games, if its at least as powerful as a steam deck.
Also for a handheld 30fps 1080p is fine performance for a mobile device the minimum would be 60fps 1080/1440 for a handheld which isn’t far away to be the norm.

I believe helldivers 2 on Steamdeck runs at 45 fps 1080 on Steamdeck which is fine performance for a handheld & actually not that noticeable difference between what you see on consoles outside the lack of a few fps in some gameplay intensive scenarios
 

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When PS wasn't cooked!?

It is nintendo thread, why you bring Playstation into this?
If it is Playstation thread, you bring Nintendo.

WTF is wrong with you?
PS competes w Nintendo why wouldn’t they be brought up? It’s vice versa. Where talking about a console platform & I’m bringing up another & giving my thoughts on the thread itself, it’s pretty logical

If Nintendo announce they was releasing games on PC & PS announce that they will double down on exclusive I would bring the Nintendo news on a PS thread & how PS could’ve thrive & or how Nintendo will diminish because they both compete in the same market
 

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PS competes w Nintendo why wouldn’t they be brought up? It’s vice versa. Where talking about a console platform & I’m bringing up another & giving my thoughts on the thread itself, it’s pretty logical

If Nintendo announce they was releasing games on PC & PS announce that they will double down on exclusive I would bring the Nintendo news on a PS thread & how PS could’ve thrive & or how Nintendo will diminish because they both compete in the same market
This is about Nintendo BC, not about Sony is doomed again, for 357th time.
 
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Good news, basically confirms the cross-gen period since Metroid Prime 4, Xeno X and new Pokemon titles (from the leaks) are on the OG. I am curious what they going to do with the new main line Mario (100% launch title) & Kart will they abandon the user-base and keep it exclusive or incentivise the new handheld?

Will be interesting to see how they going to handle the limited capacity of cartridges as well for new/modern titles.
For example seeing Microsoft confirmed as a publisher supporting Switch 2; how they going to deliver CoD since it is 100gb+.
 

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Would of been retarded if Nintendo didnt do BC. But will it make BC games run better? Zelda BOTW and TOTK 60fps?
 

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So hyped for Switch 2. Hope it's more than just a Switch iteration and still offers some kind of new unique twist.
 

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When PS wasn't cooked!?

It is nintendo thread, why you bring Playstation into this?
If it is Playstation thread, you bring Nintendo.

WTF is wrong with you?

Just put him on ignore. The guy has some serious issues with Playstation.

Nintendo is nowhere near Playstation and has even worse support than Xbox when it comes to third party.

But yeah, Sony is cooked. Makes total sense.
 

Gediminas

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Just put him on ignore. The guy has some serious issues with Playstation.

Nintendo is nowhere near Playstation and has even worse support than Xbox when it comes to third party.

But yeah, Sony is cooked. Makes total sense.
i am kinda critical about Playstation too, but holy moly, this is beyond lunacy. like 99/100 comments are about Playstation is doomed, even in threads where Playstation is irrelevant.
 

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i am kinda critical about Playstation too, but holy moly, this is beyond lunacy. like 99/100 comments are about Playstation is doomed, even in threads where Playstation is irrelevant.

Yeah it's weird the thread isn't even about Playstation.
 

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Great news. BC should be treated as he default standard going forwards. In he current age of hardware power, emulation and virtualization, their is no longer an excuse for anything less. At least not when the hardware uses the same medium/is digital. The fact that most consoles across generations are opting for upgraded and powered up versions of the same hardware and architectures, makes it inexcusable going forward.

Do i expect the unthinking modern normie masses who infest the hobby to hold them to that, no not really.... sadly. But that doesn't mean people and gamers who do know better shouldn't either.