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Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2
(gamersplan.com)
It’s somewhat odd that the two top-down Zelda games on Switch are getting free Switch 2 upgrades, while Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom will require you to purchase the respective upgrades.
How is it odd that Nintendo wants every dollar they can reasonably make off of us?
That‘s the same list from give or take a month ago, is it not?
Most of these games were mentioned previously, but now we have actual patch notes.
-5000pts + 1pt = -4999pts
Odyssey and Pokemon are the only two big gimmies here, the others are just ....who cares.. captain toad..? ARMS?
Finally the uber-demanding Captain Toad will be unshackled from the pitiful Switch and be on a powerful enough platform that can properly run this epic isometric puzzle game /s
Someone is starting to lose their cool here...
My black laptop is giggling like a little schoolgirl right now.
Interesting. My copy of Half Life from 1998 never got an upgrade for new hardware 😞
And its fucking GLORIOUS I can now annoy the scientists on my computer
Oh, which hardware was this upgraded for?
If you try reading those patch notes they'll tell you exactly what kinds of modern hardware some of these changes are targeted at:
- Steam Deck optimizations
- Improved controller support
- Default gamma reduced since you're probably not playing on a CRT anymore, and resolution no longer defaults to 640x480
- Ultrawide FOV support for ultrawide monitors
- Lowest quality settings removed since no one is running hardware that weak anymore
- Software renderer fixed on hardware that doesn't support 16-bit color
Steam Deck, for one.
Weird, considering it came out several years after Steam Deck and it works just fine on my desktop PC...
And the games in the article would have worked just fine on the Switch 2 as well.
I mean that makes sense, considering they're Nintendo games and it's a Nintendo console.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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