When Nintendo finally officially revealed the Switch 2 in January, one in every of our major unanswered questions involved whether or not video games designed for the unique Swap would see some type of visible or efficiency enhancement when working on the backward-compatible Switch 2. Now, Nintendo-watchers are pointing to a fleeting point out of “Swap 2 Version video games” as a significant trace that such enhancements are within the works for at the least some authentic Swap video games.

The utterly new reference to “Swap 2 Version video games” comes from a Nintendo webpage discussing yesterday’s newly announced Virtual Game Cards digital lending characteristic. Within the tremendous print on the backside of that web page, Nintendo notes that “Nintendo Swap 2 unique video games and Nintendo Swap 2 Version video games can solely be loaded on a Nintendo Swap 2 system [emphasis added].”

The precise wording differentiating these “Swap 2 Version” video games from “Swap 2 exclusives” suggests a brand new class of recreation that’s suitable with the unique Swap however in a position to run with enhancements on the Swap 2. However it’s at present unclear what Swap video games will get “Swap 2 Version” releases or how a lot developer work (if any) shall be wanted to create these new variations.

We’ve seen this earlier than

Nintendo is not any stranger to the concept of single recreation releases that work otherwise throughout totally different {hardware}. Again within the days of the Recreation Boy Coloration, builders may create special “Dual Mode” cartridges that ran in full shade on the newer handheld or in common grayscale on the unique Recreation Boy. Late-era Recreation Boy cartridges is also coded with particular enhancements that activated when played on a TV via the Super Game Boy adapter—Taito even memorably used this characteristic to include a complete SNES edition of Space Invaders on a Game Boy cartridge.