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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They gonna fix sharing digital games with family members? Or do I have to keep cartridges around so my 4yo can pop them out and lose them?

Crazy to think that when I bought a lot of my digital games, I wouldn’t have expected a second kid who wants to play them on a separate switch. Now my saves are all fucked because he’s gotta play them on my profile on the second switch. I bought that switch because my wife and I both wanted to play ACNH, which was also bullshit. And then I got stuck with the Lite because we couldn’t migrate her island over, which was also bullshit.

There’s no reason we can’t share digital libraries with households. Amazon does it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is Nintendo we're talking about, doing common things that other tech companies do isn't exactly their way of playing. Also, make your kids share!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sharing isn’t the problem. 4 year olds aren’t the most responsible or capable of keeping track of small objects.

I can’t tell you the places I’ve found Odyssey, and that’s his favorite game. And 3D All Stars is completely missing, which I’m still really upset about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I didn't consider cartridge size as an issue, at least back in the day they were large enough that it was harder to lose them!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ACNH means animal crossing, for anyone else reading this who didn't know. Quite the acronym

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry thought it was well-known enough without additional context (talking about switch in gaming community). I was going to mention this was 2020 for added context because ACNH launch was exceptionally huge because of Covid lockdowns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Literally just a rant on Zero Punctuation about "AC" games - Assassin's Creed, Animal Crossing, Armored Core, I forget the list. (Also Asheron's Call I guess)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, first I can't comment — or I won't comment, I should say — on the rumors that are out there. But one thing we've done with the Switch to help with that communication and transition is the formation of the Nintendo Account. In the past, every device we transitioned to had a whole new account system. Creating the Nintendo Account will allow us to communicate with our players if and when we make a transition to a new platform, to help ease that process or transition.

Our goal is to minimize the dip you typically see in the last year of one cycle and the beginning of another. I can't speak to the possible features of a new platform, but the Nintendo Account is a strong basis for having that communication as we make the transition.

Is this him indirectly confirming backwards compatibility?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why would Nintendo do anything as customer friendly as back compatibility? It's just not who they are.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because the GBA never played Gameboy games, and the Wii never played GameCube games, and the Wii U never played Wii games, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That's who they used to be.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like others have said, but I will repeat:

GB->GBC->GBA->DS->DSi->3DS->n3DS
GCN->Wii->Wii U

It's very much something they have a strong history of doing where it can work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The two lines you mention do cut off at some points, though. The DS no longer had backwards compatibility with the GB and GBC, the DSi with the GBA, although the 3DS re-added GB and GBC, just digitally. The Wii U also doesn't support GCN discs. All of these, however, work pretty well with homebrew like mGBA and Nintendont, they're just not available officially.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yea, but all the consoles I listed at launch had nearly full BC with the previous gen. DSi wasn't compatible with Rock Band for DS, or fully compatible with the DS pokemon games that used the GBA slot for pal park, but beyond that, they've been pretty good for not starting any generation without a clean slate before Switch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I agree with that. I was just trying to point out how Nintendo's BC has never been as complete as it could be, for whatever reason it may be, but yeah, they've been pretty good at guaranteeing last-gen compatibility so far. Let's see how it goes with whatever will succeed the Switch.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Because they've done it many times in the past? Wii, WiiU, Gameboy series, DS series all had backwards compatibility.