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Nintendo wii play games11/6/2022 ![]() There is no need to sell your Wii to buy a Switch. If you love your Wii/Wii U, just keep it, enjoy it, and then, when the time is right, buy a Switch to compliment your gaming collection. And I’ve listed a few of them below: Keep your Wii and buy a Nintendo Switch And I don’t blame you.īut there are plenty of alternative gaming routes you could take. I know you’re probably still upset that the Wii and Wii U can’t play Switch games. ![]() Alternatives to playing Switch games on the Wii or Wii U This makes the touch screen another reason why Switch games are not on Nintendo Wii U. Though these two technologies look as if they could be used in similar ways, they do affect gameplay. You can use your fingers, but generally, accuracy is lower than a resistive touch screen. This is similar to the technology you’ll find in your smartphone. On the other hand, the Nintendo Switch uses a capacitive touch screen. The screen has to be physically compressed for an input to be registered. This is the same technology used on the Nintendo DS. The Wii U touch screen uses resistive touch screen technology. The Wii U, though it offers a touch screen controller, is different to the Nintendo Switch. The Wii U’s screen doesn’t work the same way as the Switch’s screen Plus, making games compatible with old hardware would hold back the development of the new games on the Switch. ![]() So, as a business, it’s not in their interests to make their older consoles forward compatible with their newer console’s games because fewer people would buy their new hardware. They want to convince you to buy more consoles, more games, more peripherals, and more hardware. So there’s no way it would ever be able to run Switch games. Producing only 0.013 Teraflops, the Wii is nearly 77 times less powerful than Nintendo Switch. The Wii is massively less powerful than the Switch. The Wii U only produces 0.35 Terflops of computing power. The Wii and the Wii U are substantially less powerful than the Switch. For comparison, an Xbox one produces over 1.2 Teraflops of computing power. Technically, the Switch Produces 1 Teraflop of computing power when docked. The Wii and the Wii U simply aren’t powerful enough. Games that are designed for the Switch couldn’t run on Nintendo’s older hardware. Together, these create some seriously powerful mobile gaming hardware. The Nintendo Switch is home to a custom ARM CPU that’s coupled with an Nvidia Mobile GPU. Switch games need different internal hardware Let’s take a look why in the next section. Switch games, even digitally, will not run on the Wii or Wii U. ![]() Whereas the Switch uses cartridges that use physical flash memory to store and play its games.īoth the Wii and the Wii U have nowhere for you to insert a Switch cartridge into them.īut what about downloadable games? Could the Wii and the Wii U have access to Switch games via their respective eStore? The Wii and Wii U both use DVD-ROM disk drives to play physical games. Let’s take look at some of the reasons why… Switch games come on a cartridge The Wii or Wii U can’t play Switch games for a number of reasons. ![]() Why can’t the Wii or Wii U play Switch games? The Wii, along with the Wii U, will only take physical game on a DVD disk. Now that you have an admittedly blunt answer, let’s take a look at exactly why Switch games don’t work on the Nintendo Wii and Wii U.Īfter that, I’ll take a look at some options open to you that’ll help you get over the shock of not being able to play Switch games on your Wii. After all, the Wii U does have a large touch screen similar to the Switch.Ĭan Nintendo Switch games play on the Nintendo Wii or Wii U? No, Nintendo Switch games can not be played on the Nintendo Wii or the Nintendo Wii U. My friend, who’s an avid Wii fit user and a big fan of the Wii U Mario games, thought that Nintendo might have made Nintendo Switch games work on their older consoles. The other day, while having a chat with my friend over Zoom, I was asked a question:Ĭan the Nintendo Wii or Wii U play Switch games? ![]()
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