Sony infamously ran into the same issue with the PS3. Shigeru Miyamoto even acknowledged this point back in November and suggested it was much easier to do than it had been in earlier generations. I'd hoped that Nintendo and Nvidia would be able to use some kind of unified architecture that would be more powerful while still supporting older games, creating a persistent Nintendo ecosystem. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. Next-generation patches for Switch games could also be offered.Ī life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. However, that could raise the price of the platform. The Steam Deck has struggled to emulate Switch games well.Īnother suggestion is to include the Tegra X1 chip inside every Switch successor, which means older games wouldn't need to use emulation in order to work.

The one downside to this is the amount of processing power required. This is like how third-party emulators work on PC. Some suggestions the developer gave to make backwards compatibility work was to use emulation similar to how the Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One is able to play Xbox 360 and original Xbox games. The Switch uses the Tegra X1 chip from Nvidia that also powered the Nvidia Shield from 2015 to 2018. 'If Nintendo is to move away from the Tegra X1, which we all feel strongly that they will probably do, current Switch games won’t work on new hardware, that is without recompiling the games to target that hardware,' said the developer via VideoGamesChronicle. NightDive Studios developer ModernVintageGamer in a new video posted to YouTube suggests Nintendo will face challenges with backwards compatibility with the successor to the Nintendo Switch. By William D'Angelo, posted on 06 March 2023 / 4,919 Views

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