Switch 2 Compatibility
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Hi Fuze team! It's sounding increasingly like the Switch 2 will be officially unveiled in just a few weeks, with a March release. Just curious if this is on your radar, or if you plan to support the software on the Switch's successor.
Nintendo's President told investors the new hardware will be backwards-compatible, so hopefully Fuze will "just work"-- but it might be nice to eventually get support for 4K, or whatever additional functionality the new joy-cons may have.
Anyway, just figured I'd ask!
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Every time Nintendo updates their compatibility list, I check to see if there are any mentions of Fuze, good or bad-- nothing yet: https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/transfer-guide/compatible-games
I wonder if Fuze has been through this testing program yet? I have a Switch 2 coming on launch day, Fuze will be the first thing I start just to see what happens!
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My interpretation of these lists is that if something is not on there, they have not found any problems, and I would expect that the very minimum test Nintendo did with everything is that they booted it up. That's mostly based on the obscurity of some of the titles on that list :)
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@z-mann Absolutely, totally agree!
My question is, is Fuze esoteric enough that they haven't even gotten to testing it yet? Also, there are a zillion permutations of features you can use in Fuze-- it's not as simple as just firing it up to see if it starts, you know?
I have a hard time seeing a Nintendo QA employee learning the language to write a test bed application leveraging all of the functions, the map editor, etc. But who knows!
I guess we'll find out soon enough, Switch 2 is right around the corner (I'm super excited!).
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@spacemario said in Switch 2 Compatibility:
I have a hard time seeing a Nintendo QA employee learning the language to write a test bed application leveraging all of the functions, the map editor, etc. But who knows!
Yeah, I'm sure they're not doing that.
As a data point, FUZE competitor SMILE BASIC was on one of the lists, I have not checked for updates, and of course I don't know what problem they found exactly. But that can give you an idea about how obscure a software needs to get before they don't find problems.
My baseline assumption is that they are using some variation of the regular validation procedure on every single title. Probably not the procedure they use for new titles, but what they do for updates. And probably even less than that; at a certain point, they just have to stop testing, get the stuff out in the wild and then react to specific bug reports from users and developers.
I'd say there is a greater than 90% chance that things will be basically fine on day one.
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@z-mann Great analysis, and me too-- I share in your optimism! I'm suspecting I'll fire it up, try some Fuze games, and they'll "just work"; the Switch 2 is so similar architecturally! But I'll post back here either way and let people know what I've found :)
