Nintendo Switch 2: Backwards Compatibility Confirmed by Switch Update
The Nintendo Switch 2 has not finished making people talk about it. While rumors point to an announcement current October 2024the topic of backwards compatibility has just come back to the forefront. And this time, it's rather serious. The subject actually comes to us straight from the latest version of the software of the current Switch.
Through the console's 18.0.0 update, Pokemaniac indicated on its famous Famiboards forum that it had discovered that the console was taking advantage of “support for a new type of mount point” named compat, for compatibility.
With the latter, Nintendo should make it easier to share files between current and next-gen Switches. As a bonus, this would allow games “to adapt their graphical resources and performance, depending on whether they are running on the original Switch or the Switch 2”relays NotebookCheck.
A practice that is already commonplace at PlayStation and Xbox for cross-gen games. Thus, a physical game cartridge and a game file downloaded from the Nintendo eShop would not be treated the same way depending on the power of the machine on which they are launched.
Since the Switch 2, this would be an opportunity to automatically allocate additional resources, thus displaying a better display quality. File interoperability thus seems to mean that backward compatibility is on the agenda between the current and future generations of Nintendo portable consoles.
We can also read that this new file system will also be an opportunity to further protect the code of its future games and the Switch 2 against piracy.
