• icecreamtaco@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Knew it. This explains why 1st/3rd party game releases never dried up. The Yakuza 1 and Arkham trilogy ports would have never happened on a year 8 system without a promise of backwards compatibility.

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    5 hours ago

    Yeah but can I play Metroid Prime 4 on it or not? That’s the whole reason I bought a Switch

    Edit: rather “do I have to have one to play it”

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      5 hours ago

      They should just release metroid prime 5 at this point. Literally dump you into the game as if 4 actually existed.

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    7 hours ago

    Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch.

    Hmm. I wonder if that means it will take the Switch’s physical carts?

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      2 hours ago

      That phrasing caught my eye too; no mention of Switch hardware being playable on the successor. I’m just being overly cautious for now but given how eager Sony and Microsoft seem to be to drop physical games we can’t assume cartridges will be supported just because they say that Switch software will be playable.