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All the hubbub the last couple of days has been about the Switch 2's preorder date, and how that's been delayed due to Trump's tariffs, but something else caught our ear during Nintendo Direct this ...

Over nearly eight years, the Nintendo Switch has built up an incredible library of games. While many Nintendo systems have struggled to gain the attention of third-party publishers, Switch has ...

The patent in question was brought up by RespawnFirst over the weekend, but we retrieved the actual link this morning. Reading through the technical jargon, Sony says that it has invented a new system ...

There’s a lot we don’t know at the moment about the Nintendo Switch 2, but there’s one thing we do know – it’s backward compatible. For me, and probably for many gamers, that’s going to be its most ...

Last Tuesday, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa offered a bit of rare news for the company’s next console, confirming that it will offer backwards compatibility with the current Switch lineup. That ...

Not all PS2 models are created equal when it comes to backwards compatibility. Here are the key differences: Original PS2 Models: These models generally have excellent backwards compatibility with PS1 ...

The latest PS5 system software update appears to have partially fixed a backwards compatibility bug that resulted in low-res textures in some games. Most notably, the issue plagued Bluepoint Games’ ...

It would make sense if it was. As we’ve covered on this website quite a bit, people are making all kinds of claims about the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2, and it makes it a bit hard to understand what ...