A Direct is announced for April 2nd to cover the games.
Let’s go! I’m excited for hardware that will run Pokemon Violet/Scarlet at a non-dog shit framerate (other than pirating).
Are you prepared to have to buy the game again to do that? I don’t know it for sure, but it’s how I expect Nintendo to operate.
They are claiming backwards compatibility, and I assume that means for physical copies as well. If not, eh we’ll see!
There’s a disclaimer that says not every Switch 1 game will work, but I think it will play on the new Switch with the same lousy performance it has now unless you buy the Switch 2 version.
That is how every previous Nintendo back-compat implementation has worked.
- GC on Wii
- Wii on Wii U
- Game Boy on Game Boy Color
- Game Boy/Color on Game Boy Advance
- Game Boy Advance on (New) Nintendo (3)DS
- Nintendo DS on Nintendo DSi
- Nintendo DS/i on Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 3DS on New Nintendo 3DS
In every case, the system drops back to the earlier console’s hardware specifications. There are hybrid cross-gen games on some of the handhelds which offer improvements on the newer hardware, but up to this point, older games have never been updated to get the improvements of newer hardware. That doesn’t necessarily mean the same will hold, but I’d suggest you assume it will and be pleasantly surprised if they buck the trend.
Will this still play switch 1 games? (Physical cartridges)
From TFA:
The Switch 2 will have backward compatibility with games from the original Switch (with some unspecified exceptions).
