Nintendo fan surprised to have been surprised in a positive way.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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What is going on here? Well, Nintendo itself hasn't gone into detail, but packaging for Switch 2 Edition games does note that cartridges contain both the original game and the Switch 2 upgrade.
I mean.....that's all the detail that Nintendo need to go into isn't it?
I'm confused by the confusion. The "Switch 2 version" is a patch. Patches on consoles are typically a separate package file that runs on top of a static base game. It's the same as buying a "GOTY edition" bundle with the DLC included.
I mean, it's a "huh" moment to find these ship on one of the older carts (makes sense, though, those are cheaper and the base games are built to run on them), but it's not particularly shocking that the patched game has some logic to check what hardware it's running on. Under the circumstances it'd be an artifical (and kidna petty) choice to block the game from running.
We knew this, it was brought up weeks ago.
Cut them some slack, they haven’t developed object permanence yet.
So it's like the black GBC cartridges?
Marvelous did previously tell us that this would be the case for Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, but they'd made it sound like it was only that game that worked that way and that other titles might not. Good to know this is actually universal, that's nice.