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Do I play Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Switch 2 or should I wait for Switch 3?
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Author ponders where is the perfect time to play a game because they get improved versions so commonly now. What platforms they release on isn’t that relevant because I’m not going to be able to play Crysis remaster on a Nvidia GeForce 8800GT like the original, no?
They get "improved" versions that they have to buy a second time on new hardware.
I've no idea, but its very plausible if you bought higher end hardware at the time.
There is backwards compatibility on all consoles at the moment, and it’s likely to become a standard moving on. I can play Crysis from X360 or remaster from XOne on my Series X.
My point with that 8800GT is that you need new hardware for the remaster anyway so it’s pretty much like consoles.
I think you missed the point of the article. The Switch 2 is getting exclusive versions of older games that you have to buy a second time, at full price, on new hardware.
Really? So the PS5 can play Crash Bandicoot? Because my PC can still play the copy of Half-Life that I bought in 2006.
Crysis was released 20 years ago. TOTK was released 2 years ago.
So this is same as buying Crysis and then having to pay for remaster on PC. And a new PC to run it.
I won’t be defending PS5, situation there is dire, you could purchase Crash on PS3 in 2006 but it’s stuck there, hence I play on Xbox. I can play some games from original Xbox, loads from 360 (and I hope more since MS bought Activision) and everything from XbOne.
This is not the point since author wonders if he should wait with replaying even more, until Switch 3.
This whole thing is about something else entirely, I don’t know why we’re arguing over this but I’m bored at a hospital so I can go on :D
Most of the time you do not have to pay for a remaster. They just continuously update the original, or they offer it via DLC (as I said previously).
I'm just now seeing the TOTK remaster is only $10 so I retract my statement.