Each day, it seems that a brand new Nintendo Switch 2 rumor is circulating online. The latest rumour comes from Xbox Era rumour monger, Shpeshal Nick, who claims to have heard from his sources that Nintendo is planning a Switch 2 console, possibly without a cartridge slot, which won’t be backward compatible with the original Nintendo Switch games. This would mean that there are two models: one with a cartridge slot and the second, an all-digital version. As always, this is a rumor, and Nintendo has yet to announce their follow-up to the Nintendo Switch family of systems.
Rumour: Nintendo planning to release version of the Switch 2 without backwards compatibility
Maybe this is a way of Nintendo releasing a more affordable version, but you’ll be spending more on sd cards any how
These rumors are getting dumber and dumber. They’re just throwing anything that sticks at the wall at this point. Of course it’ll be backwards compatible, of course there won’t be an all-digital version. Once the common consensus reached that it’ll likely run games in 4k and be more powerful, now they’re just making anything up to nab attention and see what sticks. Absurd.
Nah, it actually makes perfect sense.
If you look at past console generations, then ditching backwards compatibility has been a cost saving measure in almost all of them. Just to name a few examples: PS3 removing PS2/PS1 compatibility, Nintendo DSi removing GBA compatibility, Wii Mini removing GC compatibility and so on.
The reason for this is that backwards compatibility usually requires special hardware inside the console, which of course adds cost. So if anything, offering a cheaper model without backwards compatibility actually sounds like a no-brainer and very believable. Not saying it’s gonna happen, but it’d make sense.
the DSi came after the DS, so OBVIOUSLY it doesn’t backwards compatibility for the gba, since that would be two gens.
Uhh. No. The DSi is a mid gen of the ds. Not a new generation. So it’s like a step and a half from the gba. 3ds is the true successor to the DS.
DSi is not next gen from DS… It’s just another model of DS featuring a camera and internet capabilities at the cost of backwards compatibility.
The only difference is that in the same family system, removing the cartridge slot would feel more like a move to push a digital-only age, which is exactly what’s going on. And even worse, they’ll charge even more for the cartridge Switch for possibly PS5 price. That would be the first time Nintendo prices anything that big, but knowing modern Nintendo, I wouldn’t be that surprised.
Modern Nintendo? No. They will never make an console more than 400$ It goes against so many things they stand for, like affordability and accessibility, cost savings (not taking losses on hardware), and appealing to as many consumers as possible.
Nobody knows what they will do, but this is the same Nintendo that would prefer people to pay for online for little difference and have no discounts/sales for their 60$ games (or rarely). So if they want to, they can create a digital-only console that’s separate from the cartridge version and make the cartridge version more expensive. Seems like something they wouldn’t do in the past, but Nintendo has realized their target audience will pay for high prices just like Apple enthusiasts. This is why I don’t like modern Nintendo.
All of their handhelds have had backwards compatibility. It makes more sense to be backwards compatible, especially if sticking to carts and not discs.
GBC played GB games
GBA played GBC & GB games
DS played GBA games
3DS played DS games
Then Wii played GC games
Wii U played Wii games
“of course it will be backwards compatible”
You realize that the current console isn’t right?
Because the Wii U wasn’t popular.
Neither was the GameCube. But Wii was back compatible.
tbf Wii U and Wii was still using the same architecture base since the GC era (Switch moved over to ARM) AND the Switch went back to cards, so you cant exactly have a portable system with moving mechanical parts inside; It would make it too cumbersome and defeat the purpose. (As well as risk the issue of it being more easy to break the system)
So an exception to the rule that you are stating isn’t enough to counteract the fact that it will have BC.
you cant exactly have a portable system with moving mechanical parts inside
Actually, you can. The PSP’s UMD proves that this is very much possible on a handheld console.
It won’t be a 4K console. The hardware for a portable 4K console doesn’t exist, and Nintendo don’t make their own chips.
It doesn’t exist YET. And Nvidia has the ability to develop that kind of 4K-with-DLSS 2.0/3.0 mobile chip that Nintendo needs.
4k with DLSS at 60 fps will only be possible if the developers design their game to shoot for those standards and then the games will be PS4 level graphical detail at best. The Switch 2 is portable hardware with a very low power draw Arm cpu and a very cut down Nvidia GPU. It will be limited by it’s system memory size as well. DLSS can only take you so far. I would expect PS4 quality graphics with some ray tracing support and decent DLSS upscaling.
If you don’t like rumours and spoilers then i’d suggest avoiding the Internet in general.
As long as my purchases transfer from Switch, I’m cool.
Really wish they’d stop calling it Switch 2, whoever this is.
Can’t wait for Nintendo to BTFO all this stupid rumors made by clearly anti-Nintendo people.
What about this is “anti-nintendo”?
Because some of the rumors clearly made by the people who never played Nintendo consoles/games.
Very unlikely, Nintendo’s strength is that it never does what everyone else does.
What a stupid article.
By this logic the digital PS5 isn’t back compatible due to no disc slot, despite the fact you can purchase any PS4 game from the digital store. The only part not being back compatible would be the actual physical games.
That’s assuming this is even real, quit it with the clickbait.
This. It’ll have access to the eShop, so it’ll still play Switch games. A digital-only version will still be backwards compatible.
If this is true, I stop buying official nintendo products and only i play emulators until i die. In mine 40years this i survive too many times from Sony and nintendo too and i am too old for this shit again. I need minimal two generation backward compatibility or i never Pay again!
I believe it when I see the results.
Ummm if no card slot is there then no it wouldn’t be backwards compatible considering the only thing that makes it backwards compatible is the physical games. Any console that is digital is not backwards compatible as all games digitally can be ran on them. Steam has proven that.
Not really. You can download and play PS4 games in a PS5 without disc reader.
All I’ll say is this: they’ve done it before even as recent as 3DS/Wii U, so they can do it again. But for Switch it made sense, because the 3DS and Wii U hardware was far too out there while a successor to the Switch makes no sense at all.
When Sony released PS4 I didn’t ever upgrade because ditching my entire PS3 collection was too much of an ask there and it won’t be any different if they are doing it here. In the past it was just retro VC games being dropped but many Switch games are digital only so if anybody significantly invested in digital on Switch in faith that Nintendo would keep their library safe and they don’t do it, they won’t be trusted again
Spheshal Nick is a giant clown and never had hit rumors
Backwards compatibility seems fake. Their best selling console in the history of gaming and it won’t play that library of games? It will be the 3DS all over again (even though it played DS games, but its issue was that they didn’t want first party games at launch). Maybe even a Wii U sized failure (I actually loved mine..). They’d be incredibly stupid to remove backwards compatibility with the Switch.
Unfortunately the digital only is a potential legit thing. Xbox and PS already have digital only versions. With Best Buy/Walmart now removing physical games, it certainly is a possibility……. Though it better launch with more than 32 GB. Nintendos hates roms, so what easier way than to remove physical form.
I hope like fuck… That this horrendous rumour is a lie… I don’t want a cartridge-less console. A new switch sure!! That’d be great… But it bloody better be compatible and have cartridge slots or I definitely won’t be buying one.
The rumors say there will be 2 versions, one of them with a cartridge slot, so you can choose that one. You and many others are misunderstanding this rumor, as it doesn’t say they are only making a new console without physical slot, they are making one with a slot and one digital-only. So, again, you can choose which one you prefer.
Exactly. I swear sometimes people comment without having read the full title.
WHAT!?