What does it being on your phone matter? As I understand it, you cannot do it on the switch 1 version of the game. It is a new feature added to the switch 2 version of the game.
This is integrated to the point the app is aware where in the world you are. It’s okay to charge for new things, one reason being that people eat and food costs money.
Other big companies offer bigger free upgrades for years without demanding more money from who already bought game (Minecraft says hi), indie developers have less sources of revenue and lots of them still offer updates for longer than even a console life cycle - and neither are tying the updates to buying a brand new console.
Freeload? I had payed 70€ for TOTK, if i ever buy Switch 2 that’s another 450€, and you call that freeloading? So 520€ is freeloading and not the 10€ they ask to run the game. If this was not an anti consumer tactic, you could play the fucking game no matter what in Switch 2, and ask 10€ only for these “upgrades”.
I would like to know if even you would pay for this, fanboy.
PS Thanks Playstation fanboys who made this a today norm.
Some games, not all, like TOTK, will need upgrade packs costing 10€, so you can play the game in Switch 2. They offer some enhancements to justify the paywall.
For example.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Release date: June 5, 2025
Upgrade details
Support for the ZELDA NOTES game-specific service via Nintendo Switch App*
The upgrade pack will act like DLC that modifies the game to load off of internal storage on the console. That’ll be faster than loading it off of a switch cartridge. The textures will be enhanced as well, and downloaded from Nintendo servers onto your console.
So how you are suppose to play it in Switch 2 without an upgrade pack?
You just put it in and it runs. Exactly like putting a Game Cube game in a Wii. Or a PS1 game in a PS2. How is this not obvious?
What you gain?
Nothing, except now you can sell your Switch 1 and still play your original Switch games, and not have to have two consoles.
There are no new textures. Only better resolution with upgrade pack. So you gonna play 4k TOTK with the same textures.
What am i saying is this. If the upgrade pack offers 4k and better fps, what would you get without it? Will the game run on 1080p with crapy fps on Switch 2?
The most believe that it won’t simply run without installing the uograde pack. Some games get free upgrade packs and some paid.
The console is backward compatible. It will run all Switch 1 games without buying any upgrade packs.
Will the game run on 1080p with crapy fps on Switch 2
Very likely, yes. The system basically emulates a Switch 1, and emulators must add limits to virtual chips because otherwise there would be bugs.
For instance, when I first started emulating BotW, there was a 60 FPS patch. It made the game unplayable for me. The menu selections moved too fast. If I pressed Up or Down a little too long, it would jump the selection to the top or bottom. I ended up choosing the wrong thing in so many conversations that I got frustrated and turned it off. Eventually the devs released another patch that makes menus work better at 60fps.
Stuff like that is exactly what this upgrade patch will do. It fixes the game to run as if it were a native Switch 2 game, because it’s not!
There are no new textures. Only better resolution with upgrade pack. So you gonna play 4k TOTK with the same textures.
OK, I guess I misunderstood. I still think it’ll look fine. The textures are cartoony anyways, and in 4k, the objects will be so sharp. Text will probably be updated if it doesn’t already use a vector font, but I’m just guessing on that.
Ok, i understand. So they put the fixing patches behind a paywall for certain games, while other games getting them for free and others maybe not getting one at all. But all will play as you were in Switch 1.
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On Switch 2 you get only HDR and 4K,no new textures or better graphics. You pay $10 to utilize the console you bought over a game you have.
On Switch 3 you will need to buy it again, only for $ 120.
The flood of remakes and remasters shows how the innovation in large gaming corporations has run dry.
That’s a little disingenuous. There are other gameplay features added for the Switch 2 version.
You mean the app guide and building sharing through QR? That’s on your phone. I speak for BOTW and TOTK.
What does it being on your phone matter? As I understand it, you cannot do it on the switch 1 version of the game. It is a new feature added to the switch 2 version of the game.
1st, they could made it to Switch too, there is no need for extra console.
2nd, both games had companion apps free from community, so its a minor improvment to that
3rd, jesus christ
This is integrated to the point the app is aware where in the world you are. It’s okay to charge for new things, one reason being that people eat and food costs money.
If you want to pay, go donate to the guys that made the companion apps, not multibillion companies offering trinkets…
Oh, why i even bother, Nintendo fanboys…
Nintendo employs people who eat. Go explain why you want to freeload to someone who believes it ;)
Other big companies offer bigger free upgrades for years without demanding more money from who already bought game (Minecraft says hi), indie developers have less sources of revenue and lots of them still offer updates for longer than even a console life cycle - and neither are tying the updates to buying a brand new console.
Freeload? I had payed 70€ for TOTK, if i ever buy Switch 2 that’s another 450€, and you call that freeloading? So 520€ is freeloading and not the 10€ they ask to run the game. If this was not an anti consumer tactic, you could play the fucking game no matter what in Switch 2, and ask 10€ only for these “upgrades”.
I would like to know if even you would pay for this, fanboy.
PS Thanks Playstation fanboys who made this a today norm.
I’ve read this sentence like 10 times, and I just don’t get it. What are you saying here?
Some games, not all, like TOTK, will need upgrade packs costing 10€, so you can play the game in Switch 2. They offer some enhancements to justify the paywall.
For example.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Release date: June 5, 2025
Upgrade details
Support for the ZELDA NOTES game-specific service via Nintendo Switch App*
Improved frame rates and resolution
Faster load times
HDR support
Ohhhhh, this is required? You can’t just pop it in and play it as-is?
A guy here in the post believes thst you can.
But when the upgrade pack describes that you unlock higher resolution, fps, HDR and faster loading screens, i can not see how.
Furthermore the upgrade pack for the Pokémon AZ says:
Pokémon™ Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Release date: Late 2025
Upgrade details
So how you are suppose to play it in Switch 2 without an upgrade pack? What you gain?
The upgrade pack will act like DLC that modifies the game to load off of internal storage on the console. That’ll be faster than loading it off of a switch cartridge. The textures will be enhanced as well, and downloaded from Nintendo servers onto your console.
You just put it in and it runs. Exactly like putting a Game Cube game in a Wii. Or a PS1 game in a PS2. How is this not obvious?
Nothing, except now you can sell your Switch 1 and still play your original Switch games, and not have to have two consoles.
There are no new textures. Only better resolution with upgrade pack. So you gonna play 4k TOTK with the same textures.
What am i saying is this. If the upgrade pack offers 4k and better fps, what would you get without it? Will the game run on 1080p with crapy fps on Switch 2?
The most believe that it won’t simply run without installing the uograde pack. Some games get free upgrade packs and some paid.
The console is backward compatible. It will run all Switch 1 games without buying any upgrade packs.
Very likely, yes. The system basically emulates a Switch 1, and emulators must add limits to virtual chips because otherwise there would be bugs.
For instance, when I first started emulating BotW, there was a 60 FPS patch. It made the game unplayable for me. The menu selections moved too fast. If I pressed Up or Down a little too long, it would jump the selection to the top or bottom. I ended up choosing the wrong thing in so many conversations that I got frustrated and turned it off. Eventually the devs released another patch that makes menus work better at 60fps.
Stuff like that is exactly what this upgrade patch will do. It fixes the game to run as if it were a native Switch 2 game, because it’s not!
OK, I guess I misunderstood. I still think it’ll look fine. The textures are cartoony anyways, and in 4k, the objects will be so sharp. Text will probably be updated if it doesn’t already use a vector font, but I’m just guessing on that.
Ok, i understand. So they put the fixing patches behind a paywall for certain games, while other games getting them for free and others maybe not getting one at all. But all will play as you were in Switch 1.