 Well folks, today we have an update on a rumor for Nintendo Switch 2 reported on a few months back coming from Nick from Xbox era. Remember he was the one who also told us that he knew someone who potentially saw Metroid Prime 4 and that it might be more open or at least the game world is pretty massive comparable to Halo Infinite when you first walk out which is an open world game. So that was really really exciting but he also told us an old rumor about that the Switch 2 that essentially the Switch 2 has something going on with it or he heard something's going on with it that's similar to something PlayStation and Sony has done in the past and since then we took a lot of guesses back at what it would be but we never really heard what was gonna happen and now well on the latest episode of the Xbox era podcast he finally unveiled what he had heard about Nintendo Switch 2 and what that PlayStation like feature is and let's just say I don't know that you're gonna be super excited by this one or maybe you will be excited by this one kind of depends on how you want to spin it and of course as with all rumors pretty easy to spin it in multiple directions that being said I wanted you guys so much for being here and if you're enjoying the video and enjoying our content go ahead and drop a like and subscribe to the channel I really appreciate that we're on a road to 150,000 subscribers and yes you can smash that bell icon and be notified of all future uploads so what are we talking about well you know what instead of me sitting here and and beating around the bush let me just have Nick himself tell you with this clip from the podcast I didn't want to go all the way with it but I said I had heard some stuff about the Switch 2 that I wasn't 100% on and the only clue I gave was that it was PlayStation like what Nintendo was planning was PlayStation like with the Switch 2 and then when I saw these recent me ugly so then when I I saw the rumors popping up again of a digital switch to I said to my guy I'm like come on can I just say this now they're like okay so what I have what I had heard about the Switch 2 that was PlayStation like and it links up with the digital and physical switch was that the plan again I don't know if Nintendo is still going ahead with this this is the thing even my guy's not sure if Nintendo is still going ahead with this but the plan was to have a backwards compatible version and a non backwards compatible version of the Switch 2 so like you know how PlayStation had BC versions of the PS3 and they had non BC versions of the PS3 I had heard that the plan was that Nintendo were looking at the same thing a BC and a non BC so I'm like oh one more expensive than the other yes yes so if you want the BC you pay up so my assumption is that the again assumption assumption I don't I don't know and neither does the person who gave me this info my assumption is that the BC more expensive version would also be the one that still supports physical cuts yeah quite interesting isn't it we're talking about the fact that there might be a Nintendo switch to that is backwards compatible and one that isn't and what I wish you would have addressed is if it just meant not physically backwards compatible because we already have some rumors and some weird things floating out there about a digital version of switch to and a cartridge version of switch to but if the digital version is still digitally backwards compatible then it's still backwards compatible just not with physical cartridges but he doesn't really address that and what he obviously gets into is just what he heard and he's not necessarily sure that Nintendo is going to go in this route now we look a bit deeper he does go into his own speculation of course and there's nothing wrong with going into speculation again he's the one who heard this information from his source and he makes this assumption that it would be like the physical digital version that the more expensive version would be the one with supporting physical carts and that one would have full backwards compatibility and the digital version doesn't have it at all but is cheaper now again this is just obviously a guess speculation a shot in the dark it doesn't necessarily mean that's what's going to happen and again he heard this earlier this year and just because Nintendo might have been planning that at the time changes can happen from plans to when you're actually going in the mass production of products although I will note this could explain some of the confusion from the dev kits if you guys remember back when we were hearing all this stuff about dev kits going out there in the middle of July one of the controversial things to come up with backwards compatibility and that some of the sources out there were saying things like yes it does have backwards compatibility but then other developers were telling the same people so let's just for an example go with video game chronicle they'd be telling video game chronicle actually it doesn't have backwards compatibility what is up with that and this sort of goes into support that maybe there's even multiple dev kits out there some with backwards compatibility some without backwards compatibility and because of that there's all this confusion so remember when I said you could spin this in a positive or a negative well the positive is that assuming there's any truth to these rumors the reports from the past from dev kits and obviously this rumor from nick from xbox era then what we can take from this is that yes there will be a switch to with backwards compatibility which is obviously really exciting that's what we want to hear it was an unknown thing it's been hotly debated in the nintendo community for a long time but hey there it is backwards compatible nintendo switch to that's a positive but you want to spin into a negative well potentially there's going to be an all digital system which pushes physical games more out the door and oh by the way that one won't have backwards compatibility and that is obviously not what you want to hear and nintendo is now up charging to have a physical cartridge slot and backwards compatibility which people might not be okay with and that's a way to spin this into the negative as i said you can go either way with this so what do i think about it well in the end we clearly don't have any control over what nintendo is going to do the fact that there's going to be a version with backwards compatibility yeah that's probably going to be the version i'm buying because hey i want my games to be forwards compatible not just physically but also digitally and if there's only one system that guarantees i have full bc then that's the system i'm going to get but if you're wondering how this relates to playstation you know he brings up you know the whole playstation 3 comparison how they have playstation 3's that have backwards compatibility and ones that didn't well all of them at launch had backwards compatibility it was later when they released revisions they got rid of the playstation 2 backwards compatibility this would be something that i think is being suggested nintendo would be doing at launch which i find to be a very interesting and potentially controversial decision to not just have full backwards compatibility across the board especially if you're going with an all digital you could still say it has digital backwards compatibility right you just can't obviously it's all digital that would be less controversial i mean it's already controversial to have an all digital one but then the other platforms have all digital systems so then maybe it's not as controversial as it might have been years ago i don't know this is a whole sort of mess out there and i really want to get your guys's thoughts clearly i would rather have backwards compatibility than not even though i don't necessarily always play my old games all the time there are games i'm still playing through and will probably still be playing on switch at the time switch 2 comes out it would be nice if i could just play them on the new system plus what if there's some perks like higher performance better frame rates obviously better resolution what if there's performance patches and upgrades and dlss upscaling so there could be a lot of reasons that i'd actually maybe want to revisit something like tiers of the kingdom but revisit on the new system even without a new version of that game coming out again this is all just a wildly rumor territory and unverifiable and even nick himself is like man this is like such old information at this point even his source isn't really sure if nintendo moved forward with this just that it was a plan at one point so we'll have to find out the rest of that podcast and that little speculation if you're wondering and you should absolutely go listen to the xbox era podcast it's really good and the rumor section often does once in a while dive into playstation and nintendo what i find really really interesting is that they do dive into this idea that nintendo switch 2 could be coming out sooner than people might expect like they don't think it's releasing next holiday like holiday 2024 it's going to be sooner than that they even speculate on an october reveal for a march release which to me is crazy but again just pure speculation not based on any sources anyways guys let me know you think about this down in the comments below i know backwards compatibility is that that that that topic with the system that just won't seem to go away until nintendo finally announces the damn thing and confirms it one way or another thank you guys for being here and i'll catch you in the next video