• Whirlybird
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    11 months ago

    Haven’t all nintendo consoles been backwards compatible since the Wii though? Don’t Nintendo store games bought on the Wii work on the switch?

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      The Wii U and the 3DS can be hacked to be incredibly backwards compatible. Wii U can run Wii and GameCube games natively, straight on the hardware, and the 3DS can do that for the old DS and GBA.

      The Switch can do none of that, everything they got is ported or emulated.