Ah yes, Nintendo does have a long tradition of making big announcements at Gamescom, after all.
startmenu.co.uk, the well-known reputable source for leaks from Japan and definitively not some random website making shit up to drive ad traffic…
They need to chill on releasing new generation consoles for a while (All of them, not just Nintendo). Give the current generation time for the game devs to fully utilize them. This constant upgrade in hardware for consoles is getting rather tired.
We’re coming up on 7 years for the switch, and it wasn’t exactly powerful when it released. Seems reasonable for them to refresh
Sure, refresh the hardware I guess - Can we make the dang thing compatible with the games we already have at least?!
I kinda doubt they wouldn’t, to be honest. Both the Wii and Wii U had one generation of backwards-compatibility. The Switch didn’t probably due to a combination of the form factor and the fact that nobody had Wii U games anyways. Also, the PS5 and Series X/S both have backwards-compatibility. There are issues with the classic console lifecycle, but this one has been solved for awhile now.
In what world would you expect it to NOT be compatible with Switch cartridges?
- Game Boy, Color, Advance - backwards compatible
- GameCube, Wii - backwards compatible
- Wii - Wii U - backwards compatible
- DS - DSi - 3DS - N3DS - backwards compatible
For all their faults, Nintendo have been strong with backwards compatibility for 30+ years, the only exceptions being the SNES (NES backwards compatibility existed initially but was dropped), N64 (fucking complex custom architecture and final cart based console) and Virtual Boy (lol)
This is 7 years now since the launch of the switch. That’s longer than the period between the NES western launch to the SNES 1985-1991, longer than SNES to the N64 (1991-1996), longer than the N64 to the GameCube (1996 - 2001), longer than GameCube to the Wii (2001 - 2006), Wii to Wii U ( 2006 to 2012) and Wii U to Switch (2012 - 2017)
The ONLY exception being the OG Gameboy to GBC, 9 years.
