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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This, with the paid updates list, covers most of the first party games, though there are still some that's left.

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

covers most of the first party games

Which gets me thinking... have we seen any announcement for third party game upgrade patches? Free or paid?

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[–] missingno@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Deltarune - Not sure if this is being categorized as a patch, but if you buy it on Switch 1 you can upgrade to the Switch 2 version for free.

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma - $10 upgrade pack. Interestingly, the Switch 2 physical is a special cart that can boot the Switch 1 version on legacy hardware, or the bundled upgrade pack on Switch 2.

I believe those are the only two so far, and they're cross-gen launch titles rather than any older releases. Sega on the other hand is notably not doing this, they're porting a few of their Switch 1 titles at full price with no upgrade option.

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Good info, thanks!

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Not yet. It's quite possible that many third party devs, specially the smaller and indie ones don't have access to Switch 2 dev kit. I am hoping there would be patches as more and more devs get access to it.

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Let's hope it's the case, I would be very happy with some upgrade patches for the Trails games.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago

They'll probably add more later, but they'll still almost entirely not be major games.

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[–] TAG@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Do other games need a major performance patch?

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[–] TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

ARMS
Big Brain Academy: Brains Vs. Brain
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Game Builder Garage
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

So Pokemon is finally getting the patch it needs just to function properly. It's just tied to a $400 console.

The majority of the Switch 2's marketing has focused on ports and upgrades for old games. Which a Steam Deck still does better. And at least Valve won't brick my system when their profit margin is threatened.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

$450 console, plus tax

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I won't buy one, and will likely retire from purchasing consoles.

I want a machine that plays games that belong to me, that have no online requirements whatsoever.

I want to own a machine that cannot be bricked remotely by the seller.

It's a pastime/luxury/extravagance that I can and will abandon and replace with something more reasonable.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Steam deck, or a variant, is all I am doing for handhelds any more.

I won’t buy Nintendo products anymore.

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[–] TAG@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Isn't Steam even more always online?

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[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I used it on airplane mode for 6 weeks, not realizing it was still on that. So, not really?

And all my installers are backed up as well, so the publishers don’t try to screw me. May not help with them all, but oh well.

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[–] zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Free upgrade is always great. Sadly, Tears of Kingdom is not on this list

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's a paid update.

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[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

But it has an app that you can see the map on 😲 /s

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[–] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's embarrassing, really.

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[–] Coldgoron@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

I’m still passing on the switch 2 at this rate.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I'm curious how much valve is gonna charge for the steamdeck 2 game upgrades.

They are so bad at business they will probably forget to charge me, just like they did for my steam online subscription to play online multiplayer steam games...