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Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch

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288 points ashitlerferad | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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LinAGKar ◴[06 Nov 24 17:02 UTC] No.42065332[source]▶
It would really be surprising if it wasn't backwards compatible. The Switch breaking backwards compatibility was exceptional, apart from that every Nintendo console since the Wii on the stationary side and the GameBoy Color on the handheld side had at least one generation of backwards compatibility.
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BHSPitMonkey ◴[06 Nov 24 17:19 UTC] No.42065641[source]▶
That's an oddly cherry-picked version of a pattern. There was no compatibility between the NES, SNES, N64, or GameCube. Wii and Wii U each supported their predecessor's games, but the Switch did not. Those 2 out of 7 were outliers
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1. Sakos ◴[06 Nov 24 17:33 UTC] No.42065874[source]▶
The important part is that backwards compatibility became a focus after the Gamecube and it has been ever since. Like, this is just a fact. The Wii supported Gamecube games and controllers. Even the WiiU had the internal capability to run GC games, it just lacked the disc drive for it, and it ran Wii games just fine. The same goes for every single of their portable consoles (GB games work on the GBC, GB and GBC games work on the GBA, GBA games work on the Nintendo DS, etc).