Nintendo has revealed one thing new about Change 2 video games on a day it wasn’t planning to speak in regards to the new system. After today’s Nintendo Direct stream, the corporate revealed the existence of “Change 2 Version” video games on its webpage in regards to the new Digital Recreation Card lending system, VGC reports.
The Virtual Game Card system launching subsequent month permits you to share your digital video games between relations, giving the video games comparable advantages to bodily cartridges that you possibly can already swap between programs. Nonetheless, Nintendo’s high-quality print provides away one thing else (emphasis ours):
Appropriate programs should be linked to a Nintendo Account to make use of digital recreation playing cards. Nintendo Change 2 unique video games and Nintendo Change 2 Version video games can solely be loaded on a Nintendo Change 2 system.
It’s no shock that Nintendo Change 2-specific titles received’t work on older programs; nonetheless, this point out of “Change 2 Version” video games provides perception into Nintendo’s plans to distinguish authentic Change and (probably graphically enhanced) Change 2 titles of the identical title
Though Nintendo says Change 2 can have backward compatibility with older titles, it’s unclear precisely what Nintendo has deliberate right here. Nintendo may comply with PlayStation and Microsoft, the place PS4 games could get upgraded to “PS5 Enhanced” variations, and the Smart Delivery system downloads system-specific variations relying on in case you’re utilizing Xbox One or Sequence X / S. Or it may have separate enhanced” variations of video games that work higher on the Change 2 and are bought individually.
We received’t have to attend lengthy to learn the way “Nintendo Change 2 Version” video games actually work, as the corporate’s Change 2 Direct presentation is occurring on April 2nd.