But you couldn’t play Advance games on the Color, which was why the Advance had that distinctive squatty T shape. The T shape was specifically to prevent you from jamming an Advance cartridge into a Color.
But that was backward compatibility. The color came out first, and when the advance came out later, it was able to play the previous console’s games. The same thing will be possible with the Switch 2. The tab that the 3ds games introduced was so that you couldn’t plug the new 3ds games into the old DS, because it wouldn’t be powerful enough to play them. This would be like expecting the gameboy color to play gameboy advance games.
But why? It works, and it’s smart. As a kid I wondered if I could play my gameboy color games in my old gameboy. I tried putting one in, but it didn’t let me turn on the power switch because it didn’t have room for the tab that came out on the old model, and I accepted that it wouldn’t work. If it had fit and let me turn the console on, I’d have probably been a lot more confused when it didn’t work.
And yet you could play Color games on the Advance. If they did this on the Switch 2 it would be for greed reasons, not because the tech had advanced in any way.
What are you trying to say? Yeah, you could play color games on the advance. You could also play original Gameboy games on the Gameboy color. It’s already been confirmed that you can also play Switch 1 games on the Switch 2. You could nearly always play a previous console’s games on the new console, and now is no exception. But you could never play new games that require better hardware on old consoles that aren’t strong enough. Are you saying that you expect Switch 2 games, which will make use of the more powerful switch 2 console, to work on the 8 year old hardware of the Switch 1? It’s a new generation of console, of course the new games won’t work on the old console - that’s never been a thing.
Maybe I’m missing something but they did exactly that for 3DS
And the Gameboy color, and Gameboy advance too. They’ve done this many times
Not true, you could play Color games on the Advance.
But you couldn’t play Advance games on the Color, which was why the Advance had that distinctive squatty T shape. The T shape was specifically to prevent you from jamming an Advance cartridge into a Color.
Yeah, I got given a gameboy colour for Christmas when I was like 5 or so.
My parents bought me Spyro the dragon for GBA as my game while my sister got Harry potter for her gameboy colour.
Worst Christmas ever. Cause no gameboy game to play nothing open boxing day.
We also had to get batteries too haha.
Yeah the cartridges just got shorter
But that was backward compatibility. The color came out first, and when the advance came out later, it was able to play the previous console’s games. The same thing will be possible with the Switch 2. The tab that the 3ds games introduced was so that you couldn’t plug the new 3ds games into the old DS, because it wouldn’t be powerful enough to play them. This would be like expecting the gameboy color to play gameboy advance games.
that is the joke, 'twould be funny if they did the exact same thing again.
But why? It works, and it’s smart. As a kid I wondered if I could play my gameboy color games in my old gameboy. I tried putting one in, but it didn’t let me turn on the power switch because it didn’t have room for the tab that came out on the old model, and I accepted that it wouldn’t work. If it had fit and let me turn the console on, I’d have probably been a lot more confused when it didn’t work.
And yet you could play Color games on the Advance. If they did this on the Switch 2 it would be for greed reasons, not because the tech had advanced in any way.
What are you trying to say? Yeah, you could play color games on the advance. You could also play original Gameboy games on the Gameboy color. It’s already been confirmed that you can also play Switch 1 games on the Switch 2. You could nearly always play a previous console’s games on the new console, and now is no exception. But you could never play new games that require better hardware on old consoles that aren’t strong enough. Are you saying that you expect Switch 2 games, which will make use of the more powerful switch 2 console, to work on the 8 year old hardware of the Switch 1? It’s a new generation of console, of course the new games won’t work on the old console - that’s never been a thing.
Oh yeah I guess I got mixed up and thought this was about keeping switch games from being playable on switch 2, didn’t know that was already confirmed