Conina on 06 April 2025
| JackHandy said: Speaking of BC, did you know they're mostly going the emulation rout? Just saw this last night. The Switch 2 doesn't have the hardware to natively play Switch 1 games, so Nintendo is having to do some sort of funky mixed thing to get the games to work. |
If I understand it correctly, the Switch 2 uses translation layers / compatibility layers, which is much faster and more efficient than full emulation of the old hardware. A good solution for similar (but not same) hardware than the predecessor.
PS5 also uses translation layers / compatibility layers to play PS4 games, Xbox Series also uses translation layers / compatibility layers to play Xbox One games, as far as I know.
