• Phelpssan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yep, it’s just like the Xbox 360 compatibility program.

    While I do agree that anyone with a big collection should hold on to their Switch 1 until we get more updates and real-life testing, I don’t think this is a fair comparison - even now this looks massively better than anything MS did for backwards compatibility.

    There are 462 games made backward compatible out of 989

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360

    There are 632 games that have been made backward compatible out of 2,155

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backward-compatible_games_for_Xbox_One_and_Series_X/S

    • xyzzy@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      I guess we’ll see. Based on their language, their testing isn’t exactly thorough. Their highest rating is “basic compatibility testing” (which I take to mean “played for a few minutes”). Their next highest is “the game boots up.”

      There are 15,000 Switch titles. Many of those are shovelware, but there are still thousands of legit titles. I guarantee a significant portion of them will never get the necessary patches to run without at least some problems (shader problems, textures, and other glitches).

      Of course the 100-something Nintendo titles will get more love and attention than the others. Those patches will also be $20 each.