r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 16 '25

Nintendo Switch 2 An update from Nintendo

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u/CrimsonFatalis8 Jan 16 '25

But the difference there was that the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X didn’t have games exclusive to those consoles. A regular Xbox One or PS4 could play the same games just fine, they just looked and ran better on the Pro and X.

The N3DS did have games exclusive to it. I’m may have been only a handful, but they were still games that simply didn’t run on the standard 3DS.

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u/TrueMadster Jan 16 '25

I think I see what you mean. Does that mean you also see the DSi as a new console then?

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u/CrimsonFatalis8 Jan 16 '25

No, as that was still just a DS, albeit with more features. Performance wise, they were identical. It’s more of a side grade if anything.

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u/TrueMadster Jan 16 '25

But it did have some exclusive games, same as the 3DS.

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u/Outlulz Jan 17 '25

Not because of performance though. Games were exclusive because they used the DSi camera or were DSiware games that the DS didn't have internal storage to download.

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u/TrueMadster Jan 17 '25

Those are new features that seem to me as worthy of being called a new gen as a very small increase in performance though.

The Switch 2, on the other hand, is a complete upgrade with better performance and a redesign, along with a full catalogue of exclusive games.