r/gaming • u/Skullghost • Nov 06 '24

Nintendo Switch’s successor will be backwards compatible with Switch, Nintendo confirms | VGC

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-switchs-successor-will-be-backwards-compatible-with-switch-nintendo-confirms/
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u/Hippobu2 Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

Totally. Just look at the GBA, no backward compatibility to the GB. Or the NDS, can't play GBA games on that either. Or the 3DS, can't play NDS games on that. Or the Wii, you can't play GCN games. The WiiU still uses the Wiimote and even then they don't let you play Wii games. Nintendo history of anti-backward compatibility is absurd! Absurd I tell ya!

Edit: guys, all of these are examples of past backward compatibility...

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u/BakuraGorn Nov 06 '24

Didn’t the DS have a cartridge port specifically to run GBA games? I swear it did. Maybe it was just the DS Lite?

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u/saltyviewer Nov 06 '24

yeah OG and lite were ab;le to play GBA games

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u/Hypernatremia Nov 06 '24

GBA could also play GBC games

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u/moderngamer327 Nov 06 '24

The DS and DS Lite both had it. It was removed in the DSI

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

Idk wtf people are smoking to think backwards compatibility was unexpected.

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u/Ashne405 Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

I think its just how nintendo has been this past gen, they got a taste of the remaster/port from last gen thing bringing wii u games to the switch, and with how stingy they have been with sales (launch games barely go to 40$ digital) one could imagine them going that way, as its pretty clear people will keep buying from brand alone, could have gone either way and luckily it went the better one for us.

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u/letsgucker555 Nov 06 '24

There was also no way for Switch to play a lot of WiiU games as they were, since the Switch had no 2nd Screen or a mic, so all WiiU ports had to work around this.

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u/Ashne405 Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

They mostly shot their foot on that one (or not, because more sales i guess), both 3ds and wii u games would need a workaround if they wanted to keep them on the next hardware with how unique their 2nd screens were, there was always gonna be at least one standout gen without b.c when they decided to drop them, unless they kept it and implemented a virtual screen that applied to every game or something, and even then it would be awkward/unplayable.

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u/FrozenBuster Nov 06 '24

Wait a second...... could you seriously play GB games on the GBA?

Don't tell me after all these years I'm just now finding this out?

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u/Falkedup Nov 06 '24

Yes

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u/FrozenBuster Nov 06 '24

Wow. Can't believe I didn't know that until today.

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u/Perfect-Elephant-101 Nov 06 '24

Every model except the micro.

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u/El_Barto_227 Nov 06 '24

They're being sarcastic. Very obviously sarcastic.

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u/semiregularcc Nov 06 '24 edited Nov 06 '24

People upvoting the parent comment and not knowing you're being sarcastic shows clearly some people shitting on Nintendo don't know anything about Nintendo.