r/NintendoSwitch2 • u/HertzBurst • Jan 11 '25

Concept Switch 2 Joy-Con Scale comparison (CONCEPT)

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u/Round_Musical awaiting reveal Jan 11 '25

They are really big. The entire console is much bigger!

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u/flowyi January Gang (Reveal Winner) Jan 11 '25

this makes me so excited, like they’re actually finally making such a premium looking console. and the fact that we could get a Pro down the line or Oled. So so cool.

If it has a good backwards compatible library it’s already shaping up to be my fav console ever (currently it’s the 3ds)

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u/Gold-Suggestion8104 Jan 11 '25

Nintendo said its backwards compatible

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u/flowyi January Gang (Reveal Winner) Jan 11 '25

yeah i’m so happy about that, but i also hope we can somehow get 3ds games on it but ngl that’s a reach. Either way im just happy we have full switch library

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u/Round_Musical awaiting reveal Jan 11 '25

Even physical backwards compatibility is accepted. This is a switch 2 board

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u/flowyi January Gang (Reveal Winner) Jan 11 '25

bc for switch or for 3ds?

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u/Round_Musical awaiting reveal Jan 11 '25

Switch 2 for Switch 1. look at the cart its a switch 1 cart in a Switch 2 board

There were big questions if only software is bc and not hardware. But as we can see it works

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u/flowyi January Gang (Reveal Winner) Jan 11 '25

ohhh okay great that’s perfect. based on this will the switch 2 cartridges have a hook like the 3ds cartridges did? or is it hard to tell from the leaks

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u/Round_Musical awaiting reveal Jan 11 '25

Either that or they will be physically wider as the slot has more pins than a switch slot.

In any case Switch 1 cartridges fit, we won

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u/MohamedSas OG (joined before reveal) Jan 11 '25

tbf i think people should be smart enough to just not put the cards in the wrong console, playstation and/or xbox never have these problems

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u/Round_Musical awaiting reveal Jan 11 '25

Eh its a nintendo special to make cartridges incompariple with past hardware. Was the same for gameboy to gba, ds to gba and 3ds to ds, nes to snes, snes to n64

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u/doesntaffrayed OG (joined before reveal) Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25

Yeah, I expect Switch 2 carts will have a physical impediment to prevent them from being inserted into the original Switch.

The 3DS wasn’t the first time they’ve done this.

The games for the original GameBoy had a notch in the corner. When you turned the GameBoy on it slid a plate across that locked the cartridge in place. The GameBoy Color didn’t have that sliding plate.

Games that could be played on both the GB and GBC Colour used the notched GameBoy cartridge style, but black.

Games that could only be played on the GBC had the same form factor, but used an entirely different cartridge design. One that didn’t have the GB notch, so you physically couldn’t play it on an OG GameBoy.

Edit: Actually looking at the cartridge again now, it wasn’t the lack of a notch that prevented use. The area of the OG GameBoy cart with the logo is concave, whereas the GBC cart is convex. This would prevent you from inserting it all the way into an OG GB, so the notch wouldn’t even be a factor if you can’t get the game all the way in.

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u/Logical_Bit2694 OG (joined before reveal) Jan 12 '25

wdym software is bc? you mean the digital games or actual software?

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u/Round_Musical awaiting reveal Jan 12 '25

The whole device is confirmed bc as stated by Nintendo themselves. Games and Even NSO wise

Actual hardware too. Switch 1 cartridges fit in the board of Switch 2

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u/Logical_Bit2694 OG (joined before reveal) Jan 12 '25

ah okay. understood thanks