>Only *some* Switch 1 games are backwards compatible But why? This doesn't seem like a tech issue and more like artificial scarcity.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st hitler wouldn't do that, he's my friend

@Maou@detroitriotcity.com If the Nazis won, all games would be backwards compatible with all systems. The Jews literally did this.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st No nazi ever dragged me into a bitch about performance graphs meeting.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st i mean that just sounds like technical support. there are some games that rely specifically on the Switch's hardware (like 1-2-Switch!) that would not work on a Switch 2, and others are by teams that don't support the games anymore. something like Super Smash Bros., however, isn't reliant on specific hardware as long as it's controller-based, so that's a piece of cake to support.

@SuperSnekFriend@poa.st they are all compatible with yuzu

man, I love it when they bullcrap us.

@bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar Thing is, when I hear, "Only some games are backward compatible," I hear, "Many third-party games on the NS1 will be deliberately set back so you have to buy TWO systems just to play the games you want. Tee hee!"

I'm leaning towards this being the reason. It's also probably just a legal disclaimer in case something just doesn't happen to work, such as that one original gameboy game that REQUIRES it to be played on an original gameboy due to a bug.

Well, anything like Ring Fit Adventure, Labo or other thing that rely on the physical characteristics of the Switch 1 joycon wouldn't work even in theory. I am expecting the worst and I'm certainly not buying it on release, but I'm also aware that they'd be insane to advertise 100% backwards compatibility since that would open them up to litigation on the first failure.

They actually have an unsupported list out already? I guess you can connect Switch 1 Joycons to the Switch 2, so that is a good sign for this.

@grey@poa.st Well, good on Nintendo for trying to make games as compatible as possible.

I guess anything that used the IR camera on the Switch 1 still needs a Switch 1 joycon. There was actually a one-off eshop app that acted as a night vision camera using the joycon lol. https://poa.st/@grey/posts/A8GMbe1SgvstqpkMZk

@That__Mushroom@nicecrew.digital @grey@poa.st It should have been the "Super Switch".

Pretty sure they learned their lesson with the Wii U lol.

Yeah, but Switch 2 sux and the Wii U issue was purely marketing. They should call it the "Swap" or something.

Parents are gonna buy Switch 2 games for their youngster who only has a Switch and yell at him for being ungrateful for never playing it or for saying he needs a Switch 2

Are you still stuck in the 1990s? Parents just buy eshop cards for their kids, or the kid takes them to the store to buy it if he really wants physical, or the kid sends them an amazon link of what they want. No meaningful amount of parents are buying physical games for their kids without asking them in 2025.