Switch 2 Edition games will be complete on the card without a download, Nintendo confirms
Switch 2 Edition games will be complete on the card without a download, Nintendo confirms
Curious if these carts remain compatible with Switch 1, booting back into the base game.
The switch 2 is a completely different console to the old one. So it’s actually running a switch emulator.
Based on that I’m certain that you can just plop in any switch game and it will just run.
That would be really interesting, because it would mean they either emulate the game on switch 2 even though it is a special cartridge for the switch 2 edition, or they have some kind of universal binary that works on both (which I don't think is possible without duplicating a lot).
PR speak
The actual message from the statement: "(...) some publishers may release Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games as download codes in physical packaging, with no game card"
In my eyes they try to damage control here and cherry picking one or two (old) games, while the path of all the other games is clearly heading into opposite direction - suits wearing suits
First paragraph:
Nintendo has confirmed that Switch 2 editions of original first-party Switch games will have the full game on the card rather than requiring a download - though that may not be the case for third-party titles.
Kinda crazy that Nintendo is still supporting cartridges in a brand new console in 2025...
As opposed to what?
Portable optical media was almost-sorta-kinda a good idea, when flash media offered dozens of megabytes. (And even then, should've used a mouse sensor and software tracking instead of a laser assembly.) Download-only would (1) increase costs of a system that was frankly overpriced even before The Idiot's economy-tanking tantrums and (2) require Nintendo's online infrastructure to lurch forward by about fifteen years.
As opposed to what?
As opposed to what literally everyone else is doing?
Download-only would (1) increase costs of a system
What? If anything it would decrease it because there's no slot needed for the media.
require Nintendo's online infrastructure to lurch forward by about fifteen years.
I don't see how that's a bad thing.
Except for the day 1 patches and dlc…
Enhanced editions shouldn't need those, but yes, if they are any they won't be on the cartridge. That's how physical copy on release works.
Right. What I mean to say is that most large scale games these days have day 1 patches.
They shouldn't, but since the game has been enhanced, there's a good chance that something will go a little wrong and need a patch. I would actually guess that most of them end up with a patch, but only a few end up with game-breaking bugs and need a patch.