Nintendon’t tell me it’s true
With announcements flooding in on all sides from Nintendo Direct, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement and miss some important details.
One of which isn’t all Mario Sunshine and daisies: unfortunately, you won’t be able to play all of your Switch 1 games on the Switch 2.
This is due to how Nintendo built the Switch 2 as, interestingly, it « doesn’t contain any Switch hardware. »
That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to move any of your favorite titles over to the new system, but it does mean you won’t see the same kind of compatibility you saw between the DS and 3DS.
Here’s what you need to know.The Switch 2 focuses on « enhancing its performance as hardware »
Now, the incompatibility between some Switch games and the new Nintendo Switch 2 does come with a reasonable explanation.
In Vol. 16 of Nintendo’s Ask the Developer conference, Kouichi Kawamoto (Producer, Entertainment Planning & Development Department), Takuhiro Dohta (Senior Director, Entertainment Planning & Development Department), and Tetsuya Sasaki (General Manager, Technology Development Division) accepted questions on the development of Nintendo’s new handheld console.
When asked if the team had « already decide[d] on this functionality when [they] were first planning the development of a new dedicated game system », the team highlighted that compatibility was indeed a consideration.
