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Switch 2 plays all* switch 1 games.

Xbox series plays all xbox one and even a bunch of xbox 360 games

Ps5 plays all* ps4 games

Every console has moved to essentially off the shelf soc so backwards compatiblity comes as a side effect





Once burned, twice shy. It’s going to take a few more generations to see how long they actually maintain that compatibility for going forward.

I suspect consoles will move to arm chips at some point. When they do, will Sony and Nintendo bother making a Rosetta type layer for backwards compatibility to play the games they’re selling now? I doubt it. We’ll see.


It wouldn't be the first time.



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