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?
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.
If you try reading those patch notes they'll tell you exactly what kinds of modern hardware some of these changes are targeted at:
Works perfectly fine on my machine I bought over two decades after the game came out, looks significantly better than when the game came out too. Not sure how much more upgradability you could possibly want.
Didn't answer my question.
