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KLXVER on 21 October 2016
LivingMetal said:
KLXVER said:

Yes, but some games have the action going on on the top screen and you control it on the bottom screen. Like Kid Icarus Uprising.

So if it were BC with 3DS games, you control it with the smaller screen in your hands while veiwing the action on your flat screen tv.  I'm not saying Nintendo is doing this, but I don't see a problem playing 3DS games in this fashion.

You cant because its not the Switch itself that connects to the TV. Its the dock station.



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KLXVER on 21 October 2016
hunter_alien said:
KLXVER said:

So we would have a piece of tape across the Switch screen then? Either way it just sounds awkward.

Or they could simply let a 10-pixel wide black line?

Have you seen the Switch screen? Games would be stretched to hell and back.



V-r0cK on 21 October 2016
Kerotan said:
Sony got a lot of shit for the ps4 releasing remasters,
Sony got shit for no UHD player,
Sony got shit for no backwards compatibility.

Why is it Sony always get the hate but Nintendo are exempt from it?

Through my experience on forums, In simple terms, Nintendo gets exempted from any form of hate simply because it's the father of video games...Any Sony gets all the hate because they destroyed Nintendo.



LivingMetal on 21 October 2016
VGPolyglot said:
Kerotan said:
Sony got a lot of shit for the ps4 releasing remasters,
Sony got shit for no UHD player,
Sony got shit for no backwards compatibility.

Why is it Sony always get the hate but Nintendo are exempt from it?

Have you missed all of the shit that Nintendo has received the last few years because of the Wii U?

Pretty much this.  Also, Nintendo is pretty much inconsequential.  Remember this days when Microsoft didn't regard them as a competitor?  Not that I'm agreeing with this because I'm not.



VGPolyglot on 21 October 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
V-r0cK said:

Through my experience on forums, In simple terms, Nintendo gets exempted from any form of hate simply because it's the father of video games...Any Sony gets all the hate because they destroyed Nintendo.

What about Atari?

Poor Magnovox. I guess Computer Space came out before the Odyssey, though.



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LivingMetal on 21 October 2016
KLXVER said:
LivingMetal said:

So if it were BC with 3DS games, you control it with the smaller screen in your hands while veiwing the action on your flat screen tv.  I'm not saying Nintendo is doing this, but I don't see a problem playing 3DS games in this fashion.

You cant because its not the Switch itself that connects to the TV. Its the dock station.

I did read something along those lines, but because you can have a screen in your hands and a screen in front of you opens possiilities.  It's just it seems Ninendo isn't making those possibilities.



Mystro-Sama on 21 October 2016

Goddammit it!... Backwards compatible was the one thing Nintendo was serious about.



V-r0cK on 21 October 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
V-r0cK said:

Through my experience on forums, In simple terms, Nintendo gets exempted from any form of hate simply because it's the father of video games...Any Sony gets all the hate because they destroyed Nintendo.

What about Atari?

That's the thing right!? Atari came before Nintendo yet for some reason many just place Nintendo as the father of video games.  People just forget about Atari :(



Mummelmann on 21 October 2016

That's too bad, I would have liked Wii U BC at least, 3DS games aren't important to me at all. I really liked back in the day when the PS2 had full BC on all PS games. This is yet another reason why I love the PC as a platform, backwards compatibility is never an issue.



KLXVER on 21 October 2016
LivingMetal said:
KLXVER said:

You cant because its not the Switch itself that connects to the TV. Its the dock station.

I did read something along those lines, but because you can have a screen in your hands and a screen in front of you opens possiilities.  It's just it seems Ninendo isn't making those possibilities.

and thats why I wasnt surprised about no 3DS BC...