In today's Switch 2 rumours: Switch Game upgrades to Switch 2

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@BurningYggdrassil12/30/2023, 12:56 AM

In today's Switch 2 rumours: Switch Game upgrades to Switch 2

Something Bayonetta and you have my attention! =)

So basically there's a rumour out there that there'll be a Bayonetta trilogy coming to Switch 2 with (the obvious) Visual and performance enhancements. Visuals will include HDR.

You can also upgrade the Switch games for the better experience.

I saw it in a couple of YT videos (posting one here now) so it's a source from a source... And needs it's salt.

What's interesting here is not only will there be BC, but some sort of enhancements, be them patched or not. Going with patches here, but hey!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxnPTX9h44

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@ctg86712/30/2023, 4:26 AM

I think asking for free upgrades from Nintendo, like what Microsoft did and Sony (sorta/situational) did, is a pipe dream, but anything short of having to fully rebuy the game again (or a third or fourth time if it's already a re-release) is a reasonable consumer expectation.

As long as they have full back compat tho I think they're fine. I'm beginning to buy more into the idea of them doing a $300 LCD digital only Switch w/ no BC and a $400 ($450?) premium model with an OLED, a physical cartridge slot, and full BC. The existing Switch models all get discontinued sans the Lite which would stay at $200 as the entry level model.

@BurningYggdrassil12/30/2023, 6:10 AM

Only updates were mentioned, nothing about costs, but wouldn't surprise me if they asked for a fee. They already did that with VC games for WiiU from Wii so you could play them in handheld. T'was a small fee, but it was there.
Pretty sure Nintendo knows that many people would pay for some upgrades like BOTW/TOTK. I would for Bayonetta stuff =)
Speculating that the hardware itself would boost performance instead of going into "Switch only mode" kind of like we have seen before with their BC efforts.

"$300 LCD digital only Switch w/ no BC"

What about eShop stuff then? Would be very silly to slice one system in two like that.

@ctg86712/30/2023, 7:15 AM

Yea it would just be an eShop machine for "Switch 2" games. Like a PS5 DE mixed with the DSi that dropped the GBA port for back compat.

Having a BC option will be necessary for getting most current Switch owners to move to the new model. The other consideration is growing the installed base for the next Switch as fast as possible so developers support it, and a cheaper entry level model does that. More dev support means more adoption and it snowballs. If people just stick with their old machine and never upgrade you get a Wii U situation.

Will Nintendo make a price reduced model like that? I still probably lean towards no, but it seems like a more real possibility now.

@BurningYggdrassil12/30/2023, 7:23 AM

"Yea it would just be an eShop machine for "Switch 2" games."

With no Switch games at all? At the same time the "Master switch 2" would get it? Sounds like a disaster. They want to continue the NSO onto Switch 2 so if the entire eShop library is not avilable on the digital only Switch 2 then it sounds very confusing.

@ctg86712/30/2023, 4:32 PM

The DSi dropped the GBA port, the PS3 40GB dropped PS2 BC, the Wii Mini dropped GC support, the Xbox One DE and Xbox Series S lack a disc drive and thus support for disc only 360 games, the 360 only had OG Xbox BC if you had the model with the hard drive, the Switch itself carried none of the physical or digital library from the Wii or DS lines including the VC stuff that later ended up on NSO. There's precedent for this stuff, is all I'm saying.

There's gonna be a rush to buy the new Switch in the first year or two because Nintendo has a loyal core base of early adopters. How many people after that will buy one if the barrier to entry is a $400+ system and $70 games that don't drop in price? I don't know. I guess we'll fine out!

@BurningYggdrassil12/30/2023, 5:40 PM

I get what you are saying ,but as long as you can get all the games from your NSO digitally it shouldn't be too bad.
I misunderstood and thought you were saying not even that =)

Yeah, Ninty and Sony have very loyal fanbases but that didn't help the WiiU much.
Would be fun to see Switch 2 do as good as Switch, but it wont be an easy path. Then again the PS5 is selling like fucking crazy, so if Nintendo play their cards right...

Another rumour was Nintendo working on their own cloud system after talks with a Korean company didn't pan out. I can see them at least looking closely into it.