Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2
Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2
Nintendo is all set to launch the new Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5, 2025. And they have exciting news for their fans. Plenty of games from the original Switch
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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
Let's also not forget the well made black mesa
I didn't forget it, but it's not strictly an update.
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.