With the advertisements flooded on all sides of Nintendo Direct, it is easy to be trapped in emotion and lose some important details.
One of which is not all Mario Sunshine And Margaritas: Unfortunately, you will not be able to play all your Switch 1 games at Switch 2.
This is due to how Nintendo built the Switch 2 as, curiously, “it does not contain any switch hardware.”
That does not mean that he cannot transfer any of his favorite titles to the new system, but it does mean that he will not see the same type of compatibility that he saw between the DS and the 3DS.
This is what you need to know.
Switch 2 focuses on “improving its performance as hardware”
Now, the incompatibility between some Switch games and the new Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a reasonable explanation.
In vol. 16 of the Nintendo Ask The Developer Developer Conference, Kauichi Kawamoto (producer, department of planning and entertainment development), Takuhiro Dohta (Senior Director, Department of Planning and Development of Entertainment) and Tetsuya Sasaki (General Manager, Technology Development Division) accepted questions about the development of the new Nintendo manual comfort.
When asked if the team “had already decided[d] About this functionality when [they] First they planned the development of a new dedicated game system, “the team stressed that the compatibility was in fact consideration. Even so, it was not as simple as wearing Wii Games to the Wii U.
On the other hand, the main approach to Switch 2 was “in improving its performance as hardware, namely, expanding its capacity. Therefore, compatibility was a lower priority.”
This meant creating a renewed system without original switch hardware under the hood. Sasaki comments: “It is difficult to explain … perhaps the easiest way to understand is that the methods used to achieve compatibility between Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS, and between Switch and Switch 2, are completely different.”
Kawamoto adds to that: “In a nutshell, those systems were compatible because Nintendo 3Ds contained Nintendo DS hardware, and Wii or contained Wii hardware. However, Switch 2 does not contain any switch hardware.”
If you are brave enough to verify if your favorite game made the trip, Nintendo published and continues to update a complete list of switch games that are not compatible with Switch 2.
However, not everything is sad and fatal
That does not mean that Switch 2 does not run any game from the OG switch. Most of his favorites work well thanks to what Dohta explains is “something that is somewhere between a software emulator and hardware compatibility.”
It is also important to keep in mind that almost all Nintendo titles first They are available In the new Switch 2 (guard for Fitness boxing).
Sasaki continues: “There are some games that were executed well due to the hardware configuration of the Switch. Switch 2 system, on the other hand, it has greater processing capabilities and an enlarged memory capacity, which theoretically could make some of those games stop working. We were not so safe at the beginning, but as the games one by one, we discovered that some problems could be solved.
In fact, thanks to the new and improved hardware of switch 2, some of its favorite games can even work better. The team mentioned seeing shorter load times and a more stable game in some cases.
You will also see the arrival of some new features such as Gamechat, which allows the voice chat and the Share screen with up to 12 players at the same time. This could be a homer for party games, ultimately improving the experience of hanging out with their friends that change 2.
In general, it is worth verifying the list of games that will be executed in the Switch 2 to ensure that their favorites are not on the red light list. The good news is that most switch titles will be executed on Switch 2, which is launched on June 5 and will be available to preordinate from April 9.
