With messages that flood on all sides from Nintendo Direct, it’s easy to get caught by the excitement and miss out on some important details.
Of which one is not all Mario Sunshine And Daisy: Unfortunately, you can’t play all your Switch 1 games on Switch 2.
This is because of how Nintendo built Switch 2 as it is interesting that it “contains no Switch -hardware.”
It doesn’t mean you can’t move any of your favorite titles to the new system, but it means you don’t want to see the same kind of compatibility that you saw between DS and 3DS.
Here’s what you need to know.
Switch 2 focuses on “Improving its performance as hardware”
Now comes the incompatibility between some Switch games and the new Nintendo Switch 2 with a reasonable explanation.
In Bind. 16 of Nintendos Ask The Developer Conference, Kouichi Kawamoto (Manufacturer, Entertainment Planning and Development Department), Takuhiro DOHTA (Senior Director, Entertainment Planning & Development Department) and Tetsuya Sasaki (General Manager, Technology Development Division) Accepted questions on the development of Nintendos New Handheld Console.
On the question of the team had “already decided[d] On this functionality when [they] First, planned the development of a new dedicated gaming system, “the team held that compatibility was actually a consideration. Still, it was not as simple as porting Wii games for Wii U.
The main focus of Switch 2 was instead “to improve its performance as hardware, namely to expand its capacity. So compatibility was a lower priority.”
This meant creating a renewed system without original switch hardware under the hood. Sasaki comments, “It’s difficult to explain … perhaps the easiest way to understand it 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 it: “In short, these systems were compatible because the Nintendo 3DS contained Nintendo DS -hardware, and Wii U contained Wii -hardware. Switch 2, however, does not contain any switch -hardware.”
If you are brave enough to check if your favorite game was doing the trip, Nintendo published and continues to update a comprehensive list of switch games that are not compatible with Switch 2.
It is not all gloomy and downfall though
That is not to say that Switch 2 does not run any games and contact. Most of your favorites run fine thanks to what DOHTA explains is “something that is somewhere between a software emulator and hardware compatibility.”
It is also important to note that almost all first-party Nintendo titles are available On the new Switch 2 (save to Fitness boxing).
Sasaki continues, “There are some games that ran well due to the Switch system’s hardware configuration. Switch 2, on the other hand, have increased processing capacities and an expanded memory capacity, which theoretically could cause some of these games to stop working. Make improvement.
In fact, thanks to Switch 2’s new and improved hardware, some of your go-to games can even run better. The team mentioned to see shorter load times and more stable gameplay in some cases.
You will also see the arrival of some new features like GameChat that allow you to vote chat and screen to share with up to 12 players at a time. This can be a home drive to party games, which ultimately improves the experience of hanging out with your Switch-2 performing friends.
Generally, it is worth checking the list of games running on Switch 2 to make sure your favorites are not on the list of red lights. The good news is that most of the Switch titles run on Switch 2, which will be launched on June 5 and will be available for pre -order from April 9.
