True, but it would never happen. And as someone who emulates all their old games, it sucks having to filter out a lot of DS/3DS/Wii U games because they can’t be played with just a single screen and ordinary controller.
It's pretty much my expectation of the Switch successor to make some games (Age of Calamity, Serious Sam 3, EDF4.1 for examples) run smoother in 720p/1080p alongside of getting whatever remaining japanese third-party into the development pipeline (From Software, RGG Studio, etc).
It's kind of unstable in regards with collision detection; but it used to be an lot worse, considering how there's an handful of bugs (that have been fixed) that'll lock you out of an 100% run.
Yeah I was reading about the game generally being easier and not as pretty. What I am most interested in is the movement system and how it meshes with combat. Did not know about the bugs but glad they are fixed.
Well, most of the bugs are fixed, but the game occasionally acts weird when it comes to knocking people off the stage. But the gameplay is more fluid than Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and the AI is more inclined to camp, for some reason
Nintendo had a Game Boy successor in the works at the time, the Game Boy Evolution. The 2020 gigaleak revealed some design documents surrounding it, and it looked like an original DS without the top screen.
The original ds had a gameboy port it didn't particularly need, and it took up precious space for hardware while adding cost. But they added it to give a reason for gameboy players to give a shit about the DS. Starting from the switch they have abandoned this backwards compatibility. Even the 3ds line still had compatibility with a decade of prior ds games in 2014. The Wii U at least had direct emulation support for the vast majority of wii titles. The switch dropped that in favor of eventually making you pay money to play titles on a shitty emulator.
Well that, and it was a useful way to transfer 3rd gen pokemon to 4th gen games. No need for two seperate handhelds generations trying to communicate with each other.
Explain how the Switch could have a disc drive to play Wii U games without defeating the entire purpose of being a hybrid that can play anything anywhere. Or how DS and 3DS games could be played on a Switch without it feeling completely unnatural.
That’s not emulation, the Wii U had native Wii hardware. Wii U was basically a more powerful Wii, which was basically a more powerful Gamecube. In fact, this is what all of Nintendo’s physical backwards compatibility has been: native hardware. The only way the Switch could have been backwards compatible is if it had native Wii U hardware - severely holding it back in other aspects or at least ramping up the price significantly - or if Nintendo had pulled some “original Xbox on 360”-level technical wizardry to make it kinda sorta work.
Just like the Gamecube -> Wii -> Wii U line that @Two Dollars mentioned, the GBA -> DS -> 3DS had the same architecture family, so sticking a GBA slot onto the DS was trivial. They also used the GBA slot for accessories, like a rumble pak and the Guitar Hero grip and this piano:
I backed out like a bitch a little before termite kingdom.
Honestly, call me optimistic but I sometimes hope this year is the end of new console generations.
Probably for better hardware. Not that there's anything wrong with the GBA, but it kinda feels that those cartridges weren't all that capable of rendering certain genres
I won't be surprised if it turns out to be another case of them upgrading their hardware
No way man it let me play some sweet gameboy advance games (eg FF 6). The DS was my first portable since the very first game boy, this was a big deal (and GB advance games were cheaper at the time cause everyone just wanted the new DS games instead).
The PS3/360 were the first HD consoles but were incredibly weak, and the PS4/Xbone were the first HD consoles that had some staying power. The PS5/XS are probably the first ones that feel like an pointless upgrade if you don’t give a fuck about 4K or 8K gaming. That and chip shortages are likely why these consoles haven’t sold all that well. The fact that cross gen games are still a thing in the third year of these new consoles is a sign that they’ve hit a technology saturation point.
Well, that, and nobody can afford them due to the current recession.
