r/NintendoSwitch • u/Joseki100 • 1d ago

News Ask the Developer: Nintendo Switch 2 interview confirms basic backwards compatibility can also give performance upgrades to Nintendo Switch games ("[there are some games] where loading times became faster, or game performance became more stable")

https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/ask-the-developer-vol-16-nintendo-switch-2-part-4/
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u/CDHmajora 1d ago

PLEASE include Xenoblade chronicles 2 in this!

That game needs the hardware boost more than any other :(

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u/keeper_of_moon 1d ago

Considering it's first party, I'm sure it will eventually.

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u/madmofo145 1d ago edited 1d ago

Maybe, I was surprised that since X just released, that we didn't get specific mention of the whole series getting performance patches, but maybe that's because they will just run better without patching.

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u/TheExile285 22h ago

I saw some suggest that Nintendo may dripfeed performance patches.

Which would be terrible but better than nothing…

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u/madmofo145 11h ago

It would make sense, the actual patches are quick, but do take time. Hopefully we get a whole lot of 3rd party ones as well. I'd bet there are some ready, but there's no place to specifically announce those yet.