Wait, so all these "Nintendo Switch 2 Edition" games have language on the front of the box that say this is the Switch 1 game plus the corresponding Upgrade Pack for NS2. But this means... it's a Switch 1 card, with the low read speeds, right?
So the NS2 upgrades can't assume decent read speeds because it could be on a NS1 cart? Does this mean texture boosts or even major LoD retooling is going to be far less common because you can't assume NS2 read speeds?
@shivoa chances are Switch 2 cards can be read on Switch 1, albeit at lower speeds, they're just SD cards with the branding filed off afaik
@shivoa they seem to be physically identical so a Switch 2 game plugged into a Switch 1 would probably just trigger an error message
@noiob Oh, are NS1 carts just custom form factor but SD(XC) pins?
I thought that the NS2 carts, while being the same form factor as NS1, would be quite different electrically due to the expansion storage being SD Express (which isn't SD really at all, it's NVMe over PCI-E). In which case, NS1 carts could be read on a NS2 but not any faster as the fast path is a totally unrelated process on the same physical slot.
@shivoa you're asking a lot of questions I can't answer because I don't work at Nintendo
@noiob Oh, so these Nintendo Switch 2 Edition carts are going to be SD Express when you plug them into a NS2 but use a fallback access mode when you plug then into an NS1 (so they can be played as NS1 titles, which the box art says they are)?
But what happens when you buy a normal NS1 cart version of a game and plug it into an NS2 then buy the Upgrade Pack? Will it have to download the entire game into your internal storage on the NS2 as the NS1 cart will be too slow?