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
  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    414·
    18 hours ago

    Interesting. My copy of Half Life from 1998 never got an upgrade for new hardware 😞

        • missingno@fedia.io
          5·
          10 hours ago

          If you try reading those patch notes they’ll tell you exactly what kinds of modern hardware some of these changes are targeted at:

          • Steam Deck optimizations
          • Improved controller support
          • Default gamma reduced since you’re probably not playing on a CRT anymore, and resolution no longer defaults to 640x480
          • Ultrawide FOV support for ultrawide monitors
          • Lowest quality settings removed since no one is running hardware that weak anymore
          • Software renderer fixed on hardware that doesn’t support 16-bit color
          • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
            110·
            16 hours ago

            Weird, considering it came out several years after Steam Deck and it works just fine on my desktop PC…

            • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              16 hours ago

              And the games in the article would have worked just fine on the Switch 2 as well.

              • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
                17·
                16 hours ago

                I mean that makes sense, considering they’re Nintendo games and it’s a Nintendo console.

        • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          16 hours ago

          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.