Oldpuck! I'm back!
Oh hey, Thread Lurker. How you doing?
Pissed off. At you.
What? Why? Last time we talked you seemed pretty jazzed.
That was when you told me that the Omega Switch Would Be The Best Graphics Evar!
I... I did not actually
say that
But now I hear that The Oemga Switch-
Don't call it that, please don't let that catch on
-that the Omega Switch won't be backwards compatible!!!!
Oh gods, not this again. You know what? Don't worry about it
What? So it WILL be backwards compatible???
I said don't worry about it. There isn't anything to worry about. Chill. It's cool. Promise. Your games are going to work
So MVG is wrong?
I didn't actually say that.
MVG IS RIGHT? MY GAAAAAAAMES!
Okay, you know what? I'm going to explain it as best I can but here is the deal. You can only read farther if you
don't freak out.
I can't promise anything, but I will try
Okay.
Big deep breath
The Switch is built on an Nvidia architecture called Maxwell. The Omega Switch -
It's catching on!
Hush! The Omega Switch, according to this leak, is built on an Nvidia architecture called Ampere. Well before this leak, we've known backwards compatibility for an Ampere console would be an issue.
But-
Stop freaking out. Breath.
Okay, okay. I'm listening
There almost definitely
will be a backwards compatibility solution so good you'll never notice. There is a decent chance that MVG is right and the solution isn't compatible hardware but a software solution. That software solution is definitely going to be automated in some way, and that every game you care about will work.
Maybe we'll see a patch like MVG describes. Xbox does this for some games, and Xbox is the gold standard for preserving BC across hardware. There is also a possible hardware solution, that doesn't require patching, but also is probably not perfect-forever-and-always BC. It's just BC so good
you don't care about the problems.
Even the
Game Boy Color didn't exactly replicate what the Game Boy hardware could do. The processor was slightly faster, but that's not something that ever mattered to a video game
Games are all I care about it
Exactly. Perfect BC isn't the same as "BC so good..."
So good you'll never notice, right.
Besides you don't want perfect backwards compatibility do you?
What? Yes I do!
Perfect BC means no improvements in old games. If you want "perfect" BC you basically need to shove the entire Classic Switch hardware into the Omega Switch's case, and run old games on there. That means no framerate improvements, no resolution increases, nothing. It also means the hardware is hella expensive.
What you want is to play all your old games, with no major new bugs, and better graphics
The Best Graphics Evar!!!!
Right. So what does this mean
It means don't worry about it?
It means don't worry about it.