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Switch 2
Nintendo has revealed thing caller astir Switch 2 games connected a time it wasn’t readying to speech astir the caller system. After today’s Nintendo Direct stream, the institution revealed the beingness of “Switch 2 Edition” games on its webpage astir the caller Virtual Game Card lending system, VGC reports.
The Virtual Game Card system launching adjacent period lets you stock your integer games betwixt household members, giving the games akin benefits to carnal cartridges that you could already swap betwixt systems. However, Nintendo’s good people gives distant thing other (emphasis ours):
Compatible systems indispensable beryllium linked to a Nintendo Account to usage virtual crippled cards. Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive games and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games tin lone beryllium loaded connected a Nintendo Switch 2 system.
It’s nary astonishment that Nintendo Switch 2-specific titles won’t enactment connected older systems; however, this notation of “Switch 2 Edition” games gives penetration into Nintendo’s plans to differentiate archetypal Switch and (likely graphically enhanced) Switch 2 titles of the aforesaid name
Although Nintendo says Switch 2 volition person backward compatibility with older titles, it’s unclear precisely what Nintendo has planned here. Nintendo could travel PlayStation and Microsoft, wherever PS4 games could get upgraded to “PS5 Enhanced” versions, and the Smart Delivery system downloads system-specific versions depending connected if you’re utilizing Xbox One oregon Series X / S. Or it could person abstracted enhanced” versions of games that enactment amended connected the Switch 2 and are sold separately.
We won’t person to hold agelong to find retired however “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” games truly work, arsenic the company’s Switch 2 Direct presumption is happening connected April 2nd.
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