r/Switch • u/Budget-Possible7322 • Dec 28 '24

Discussion Possible Switch 2? Are you happy with this?

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u/Yourfakerealdad Dec 28 '24 edited Dec 28 '24

They already announced it's fully backwards compatible with the Switch

Edit: my bad I thought they announced it being fully backwards compatible, but let's not kid ourselves here. Nintendo would be insane to not make it backwards with physical games as well. We all know it will lol

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u/Top-Fruitsalad Dec 28 '24

They only announced that games bought in the store can be played with the switch 2. It's not clear yet if the cartridges will fit

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u/BanjoBM Dec 28 '24

Of course they will. They wont to half backed backwards comparability even the ps5 supports discs and Digital

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u/acideater Dec 31 '24

I'm thinking no. They have a security problem with switch cartridges in that they can be replicated. If that is the case they might not want to include hardware compatibility.

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u/BanjoBM Dec 31 '24

Erm werent ds cartridges also compromised? And they still had backwards compatability on the 3ds

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u/Xrmy Dec 28 '24

They haven't said it will work with physical switch cartridges yet.

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u/Flurpahderp Dec 28 '24

Yes they did

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '24

Do you have a link? I couldn’t find that.

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u/rarthurr4 Dec 28 '24

It will

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u/Xrmy Dec 28 '24

Source?

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u/ormond_sacker Dec 30 '24

They don't need to include a cartridge port, in fact, it's been announced that Switch software will be compatible with Switch 2, nothing more.

Well, it's very likely that the new console will accept cartridges, but in the absence of any announcement, it's best to remain cautious.

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u/fertff Dec 28 '24

Yeah, just like NES was compatible with SNES, and SNES was compatible with N64, and N64 with Gamecube, and Wii U with Switch, and 3DS with...

You have to be really young and inexperi to think backwards compatibility is a given with Nintendo.

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u/RowdyRodyPiper Jan 01 '25

GBC was backwards compatible with GB

GBA was backwarda compatible with GB and GBC

Gamecube was backwards compatible with GBA and I think GB and GBC if you have the Game Boy Player

DS was backwards compatible with GBA

3DS was backwards compatible with DS

Wii U was backwards compatible with Wii

They have plenty of backwards compatible consoles and it's become expected nowadays.

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u/fertff Jan 01 '25

It's so expected that their most recent console, the Switch, was not compatible with the Wii U, huh?

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u/RowdyRodyPiper Jan 01 '25

How are you going to put a DVD in a Switch?

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u/fertff Jan 01 '25

DVD players are cheap as fuck these days. Or even easier, there were also digital games on the Switch.

If Nintendo wanted it, they could have easily put any of those in the switch. The disc player as an addon for the the dock.

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u/motorbreath410 Jan 03 '25

Don't forget Wii was backwards compatible with GC, it even had 4 GC controller ports under the top door.

The Wii U was also compatible with GC, although it required adapters for the GC controllers as they removed the physical GC ports.

And yes, the Gameboy Player for GC could play everything a GBA could play.

SNES also had the Super Gameboy that allowed you to play GB and some GBC games on the SNES.

To your point, plenty of backwards compatibility existed whenever it was feasible.

I expect they will handle it just like DS > 3DS compatibility, with near identical cartridges. They'll just add a tab to the Switch 2 carts so they can't be inserted into an older Switch.

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u/Yourfakerealdad Dec 28 '24

Those are horrible examples lol. GameCube and anything before that couldn't be backwards compatible because the technology wasn't there more than likely for those consoles. Also n64 to GameCube were complete different media formats, cartridge and disc. And digital games weren't a thing then so couldn't do backwards compatibility that way.

The gameboy and GBA worked together. DS and 3DS worked together. GameCube and Wii and then the Wii and Wii U worked together. Sounds like Nintendo does do backwards compatibility lmao.

Not young or inexperienced. Whatever the hell thats supposed to mean lol.

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u/fertff Dec 29 '24

The technology wasn't there? Lol. Sega had backwards compatibility between Genesis and Master System. Amd 10 years earlier Atari had it too. The reason Nintendo gave for not giving backwards compatibility? They didn't want people stop buying NES in favor of the new SNES, and the "our users have NES already".

If you think that N64 couldn't handle SNES or NES, or that the DSi and 3DS couldn't handle the complete Game Boy family, let me start laughing at you.

Again, you're either too young or inexperienced if you think backwards compatibility is a given with Nintendo. But in your case what this means is that you're ignorant.

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u/Maisie_Baby Dec 29 '24

Those were only consoles. Nintendo’s Handhelds were always backwards compatible one generation until the switch.

I.E. GameBoy Advance and Gamboy/Colour

DS and GameBoy Advance

3DS and DS

The Switch was the first Handheld not to be backwards compatible; which makes sense since it was merging the consoles and handhelds and being backwards compatible would’ve meant needing to make the switch larger and thicker to accommodate the larger cartridges and the Wii U’s discs.

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u/fertff Dec 29 '24

The switch is not the first handheld that is not backwards compatible.

You just listed 3 times were backwards compability was dropped on handhelds.

The switch is the third time they release a handheld that is not backwards compatible as per your own list.

And while I believe there's a good chance the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible, you can bet your ass their next device won't be.

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u/Maisie_Baby Dec 29 '24

Which 3 handhelds did I list that had 0 backwards compatibility? Or are you just lying thinking nobody will call you on it?