• Signtist@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    But why? It works, and it’s smart. As a kid I wondered if I could play my gameboy color games in my old gameboy. I tried putting one in, but it didn’t let me turn on the power switch because it didn’t have room for the tab that came out on the old model, and I accepted that it wouldn’t work. If it had fit and let me turn the console on, I’d have probably been a lot more confused when it didn’t work.

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      21 hours ago

      And yet you could play Color games on the Advance. If they did this on the Switch 2 it would be for greed reasons, not because the tech had advanced in any way.

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        21 hours ago

        What are you trying to say? Yeah, you could play color games on the advance. You could also play original Gameboy games on the Gameboy color. It’s already been confirmed that you can also play Switch 1 games on the Switch 2. You could nearly always play a previous console’s games on the new console, and now is no exception. But you could never play new games that require better hardware on old consoles that aren’t strong enough. Are you saying that you expect Switch 2 games, which will make use of the more powerful switch 2 console, to work on the 8 year old hardware of the Switch 1? It’s a new generation of console, of course the new games won’t work on the old console - that’s never been a thing.

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          20 hours ago

          Oh yeah I guess I got mixed up and thought this was about keeping switch games from being playable on switch 2, didn’t know that was already confirmed