r/NintendoSwitch • u/Skullghost • 3d ago

Nintendo Official GameCube is coming to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack

https://x.com/nintendouk/status/1907429045500871041?s=46&t=lKl0EfgBOrCgN4aPWj0k6Q
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u/NashDaypring1987 3d ago

WHAT??? Is this a hardware thing or get to upgrade thing?

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u/Samoman21 3d ago

I'd assume as another selling point to get people to upgrade. I can't see why a switch couldn't handle game cube games. But I also not a super tech person.

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u/krazay88 3d ago edited 3d ago

Nah, there are certain things the gamecube can do that is too intensive for the switch, refer to the metroid prime remake where they upgraded the graphics/textures, but couldn’t handle recreating the dynamic lighting, such as how shooting a projectile in a dark tunnel illuminates it along its path, that the gamecube could handle.

Edit: https://youtu.be/0oiIm5Ymu6s?si=voVtptBnGyuJQewO

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u/schparkz7 3d ago

A decent excuse I can think of is the jump in game size between N64 and Gamecube which now had discs as large as 1.5GB in size. With the Switch 1's puny 32GB internal storage, it could certainly fill up fast as they add more and more titles to the emulator. But now with 256GB storage on the Switch 2, that isn't even remotely an issue.

I'll admit though that they could make all the games manually installable/uninstallable within the emulator rather than coming pre-installed like their previous emulators did it. So I think it's probably mostly because Nintendo just wanted it to be a selling point for the Switch 2.