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[kevboard]

do u expect Nintendo to do it. Hahaha im sorry its not going to happen.

they would be stupid not to do it. it's their loss really.

 

[IDKFA]

Was there any doubt?

 

[Icymanipulator]

Good, I was hesitant about buying some stuff on their digital storefront because I wasn't sure if Nintendo was gonna pull a Nintendo or not.
You can never be too sure what Nintendo will do, as their base will generally eat up anything they serve.

 

[Södy]

Good, I was hesitant about buying some stuff on their digital storefront because I wasn't sure if Nintendo was gonna pull a Nintendo or not.
You can never be too sure what Nintendo will do, as their base will generally eat up anything they serve.

Same here. Will spend some money on the next sale.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Is this just downloaded content, or is this carts too? This doesn't clarify. I have a lot of both. I really hope it is both as I don't want to have re-buy anything. Of course I am sure nintendo would love that scenario.

 

[daclynk]

they would be stupid not to do it. it's their loss really.

does it take much work?

 

[Shadowstar39]

It's the same architecture. Should be able to run it natively, that's why I was never worried.

How do you know it's the same. Was this announced. Are they using nvidia tegra upgrade?

 

[NT80]

How can they be making this statement before they've even announced the thing officially?

 

[BlackTron]

Good, I was hesitant about buying some stuff on their digital storefront because I wasn't sure if Nintendo was gonna pull a Nintendo or not.
You can never be too sure what Nintendo will do, as their base will generally eat up anything they serve.

I think their base got too big and too mainstream to safely piss off over Switch's tenure. We have here a Nintendo that already had to fight hard to win back their standing and maybe thinks twice now.

 

[awwr999999]

Famicom Disk System. A pretty revolutionary approach, from a time when nobody thought people would care about old games just a few years down the line. You could erase your Zelda or Metroid disk to write something on it that's totally obscure today. It's incredible what we managed to preserve from that time, considering that some less successful games risked getting completely obliterated from those disks to make place for the best ones.
Then Nintendo realized their games would actually hold their value throughout the generations, and here we are, wondering if we'll have to rebuy some Switch games at full price.

If Nintendo had used some kind of system to pair the games to the hardware of the first owner they could've radically reduced piracy and created an endless generation way back when.
The day a console figures out a user friendly system that gives users physical media without creating a second hand game resale market is the day console generations become neverending.
E.g., Everyone gets their physical media that works on their console but Nintendo gets one game sale per user, no resale - Nintendo likely doubling, tripling or quadrupling their game sales and profits per title over the course of a decade.
Tradeoff of the endless generation is no double dipping selling the same game again at full price on the next generation.

 

[dano1]

Will officially buy now.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

Is this just downloaded content, or is this carts too? This doesn't clarify. I have a lot of both. I really hope it is both as I don't want to have re-buy anything. Of course I am sure nintendo would love that scenario.

I'm assuming cartridges as well, given the high proportion of carts bought in Japan over the years.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

The day a console figures out a user friendly system that gives users physical media without creating a second hand game resale market is the day console generations become neverending.

It seems Nintendo could have already done this. Each cart currently has a unique identifier, and they already have a database system in place to mark them when you redeem for coins.

I think at this point, it's just easier for a console to go digital only and avoid this hassle.

 

[Spiral1407]

Fantastic. Backwards compatibility is always important. It's why the early PS3s are some of my favourite consoles.

 

[Xdrive05]

Wasn't there some technical reason why BC would be hard to do on Switch 2, having to do with how the Switch containerizes its games or something like that?

 

[mckmas8808]

Called it, hence the reason why they were cracking down on the emulators, would not be surprised if the emulation of the new console is actually fairly similar to the switch emulators to boot.

This was obvious.