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Nintendo Fans Surprised to Find Switch 2 Edition Game Cartridges Also Work on Switch 1 (www.ign.com)
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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 20 points 1 year ago

I'm confused by the confusion. The "Switch 2 version" is a patch. Patches on consoles are typically a separate package file that runs on top of a static base game. It's the same as buying a "GOTY edition" bundle with the DLC included.

I mean, it's a "huh" moment to find these ship on one of the older carts (makes sense, though, those are cheaper and the base games are built to run on them), but it's not particularly shocking that the patched game has some logic to check what hardware it's running on. Under the circumstances it'd be an artifical (and kidna petty) choice to block the game from running.