Nintendo has revealed one thing new about Switch 2 video games on a day it wasn’t planning to speak concerning the new system. After right now’s Nintendo Direct stream, the corporate revealed the existence of “Switch 2 Edition” video games on its webpage concerning the new Virtual Game Card lending system, VGC studies.
The Virtual Game Card system launching subsequent month permits you to share your digital video games between relations, giving the video games comparable advantages to bodily cartridges that you would already swap between techniques. However, Nintendo’s tremendous print offers away one thing else (emphasis ours):
Compatible techniques have to be linked to a Nintendo Account to make use of digital recreation playing cards. Nintendo Switch 2 unique video games and Nintendo Switch 2 Edition video games can solely be loaded on a Nintendo Switch 2 system.
It’s no shock that Nintendo Switch 2-specific titles received’t work on older techniques; nevertheless, this point out of “Switch 2 Edition” video games offers perception into Nintendo’s plans to distinguish authentic Switch and (seemingly graphically enhanced) Switch 2 titles of the identical title
Although Nintendo says Switch 2 can have backward compatibility with older titles, it’s unclear precisely what Nintendo has deliberate right here. Nintendo may observe PlayStation and Microsoft, the place PS4 video games may get upgraded to “PS5 Enhanced” variations, and the Smart Delivery system downloads system-specific variations relying on if you happen to’re utilizing Xbox One or Series X / S. Or it may have separate enhanced” variations of video games that work higher on the Switch 2 and are offered individually.
We received’t have to attend lengthy to learn the way “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” video games actually work, as the corporate’s Switch 2 Direct presentation is going on on April 2nd.
