Nintendo has revealed one thing new about Swap 2 video games on a day it wasn’t planning to speak concerning the new system. After immediately’s Nintendo Direct stream, the corporate revealed the existence of “Swap 2 Version” video games on its webpage concerning the new Digital Recreation Card lending system, VGC reviews.
The Digital Recreation Card system launching subsequent month helps you to share your digital video games between relations, giving the video games related advantages to bodily cartridges that you possibly can already swap between techniques. Nonetheless, Nintendo’s advantageous print provides away one thing else (emphasis ours):
Appropriate techniques have to be linked to a Nintendo Account to make use of digital recreation playing cards. Nintendo Swap 2 unique video games and Nintendo Swap 2 Version video games can solely be loaded on a Nintendo Swap 2 system.
It’s no shock that Nintendo Swap 2-specific titles received’t work on older techniques; nonetheless, this point out of “Swap 2 Version” video games provides perception into Nintendo’s plans to distinguish authentic Swap and (possible graphically enhanced) Swap 2 titles of the identical title
Though Nintendo says Swap 2 may have backward compatibility with older titles, it’s unclear precisely what Nintendo has deliberate right here. Nintendo might observe PlayStation and Microsoft, the place PS4 video games might get upgraded to “PS5 Enhanced” variations, and the Sensible Supply system downloads system-specific variations relying on in case you’re utilizing Xbox One or Collection X / S. Or it might have separate enhanced” variations of video games that work higher on the Swap 2 and are offered individually.
We received’t have to attend lengthy to learn how “Nintendo Swap 2 Version” video games actually work, as the corporate’s Swap 2 Direct presentation is going on on April 2nd.
