Something I was wondering about. Modern Vintage Gamer (YouTuber / developer for Nightdive studios / appears on Nate the Hare podcast) said it would be very tricky to run Switch games on any other hardware due to multiple quirks that are way beyond me. He even speculated that it wouldn’t surprise him if Switch successor wouldn’t run Switch games. I guess this is some answer to that speculation. This is also part of the reason why Switch 2 seems to be fairly powerful - they didn’t need that much hardware compatibility so they weren’t constrained by architecture that much.
One has to admit Switch 2 games look pretty great, especially for a mobile device that’s quite thin. Battery life is at early Switch levels however which is probably what Nintendo decided to sacrifice as a tradeoff for fitting it into certain budget.
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Something I was wondering about. Modern Vintage Gamer (YouTuber / developer for Nightdive studios / appears on Nate the Hare podcast) said it would be very tricky to run Switch games on any other hardware due to multiple quirks that are way beyond me. He even speculated that it wouldn’t surprise him if Switch successor wouldn’t run Switch games. I guess this is some answer to that speculation. This is also part of the reason why Switch 2 seems to be fairly powerful - they didn’t need that much hardware compatibility so they weren’t constrained by architecture that much.
Say what? In what world? The chip was already like 5 years old when Switch came out.
Meant Switch 2 obviously :) Corrected.
One has to admit Switch 2 games look pretty great, especially for a mobile device that’s quite thin. Battery life is at early Switch levels however which is probably what Nintendo decided to sacrifice as a tradeoff for fitting it into certain budget.
I don’t know. A lot of games seem to run fine on my PC.