Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch

Pro: We won’t have to repurchase games.

Con: Assuming native compatibility, this likely won’t be a very exciting console.

A beefier Switch is what everyone wants. The number 1 complaint I hear about it is how game X looks worse on it than the Xbox/PS version.

Hopefully Nintendo learned its lessons from the Wii U.

A beefier iteration is the Xbox PlayStation way. To many people what makes Nintendo special is that they often avoid that. Wii, Switch, snd DS being successful examples.

>Hopefully Nintendo learned its lessons from the Wii U.

That’s my concern, Nintendo doesn’t like incremental titles like “Switch 2”. They’d rather call it something weird like “Switch Me” which only confuses non informed customers.

Consoles have had architecturally unexciting hardware for a while now, what kind of thing were you expecting?

Yeah playing emulated Switch games is a much better experience on a Steam Deck than it is on the Switch. Nintendo is in a weird spot now because the competitive landscape is much different.

I was / (am still sort of) expecting Nintendo will make a product that’s exciting. Not a Switch 2 we can look back on and say “man this company hasn’t made a significant console since 2016”.

To be fair, I predict a Netflix of gaming in the future so maybe this is a safe move, idk.

The Nintendo DS was "interesting" relative to the GBA (if you ask me), but still had native back-compat.

I agree that the Switch 2 will likely be "more of the same", but I don't really see how that relates to back-compat?

If they were on their game it would just be "Big Switch".

Agreed, a lot of people were expecting a bump in processing power in the OLED refresh, but it's pretty clear now that they were saving that for the Switch 2.

I forgot about how drastic the Wii was regardless of native compatibility with GameCube.

I guess I was under the assumption that because on the joy cons unique format, it would be hard to escape with fully compatible support. But I didn’t own a Switch for very long so idk if that’s true.

Most if not all games also support the Pro Controller. The Joycons' uniqueness is more about the form factor than anything functional.