All Nintendo Switch emulators have fallen this year. Many of these emulators have been around for quite some time and we didn’t understand why The Big N has decided to step in right now, as its console is in the final stretch of its life cycle and the Nintendo Switch 2 is nearing its launch.

The new leak contains important information that greatly helps us clarify this issue. In theory, the Nintendo Switch 2 will use the same tools and the same ROM format as the Nintendo Switch. This will make it easier to be backwards compatible, and it will easier to emulate new Nintendo console games.

This is why the Japanese company took such drastic measures against Nintendo Switch emulators just a few months after the launch of its successor, because the same emulators could be easy to edit emulate Nintendo Switch 2 games with little effort The only important difference that makes it a bit more complicated is the new encryption keys that Nintendo will be using.

Emulating the Nintendo Switch 2 won’t be too complicated, or at least not as complicated as it would be if the big N made a completely different system, with different tools and a new ROM format. After starting this console can be new emulatorsbut seeing the legal action nintendo is taking against previous emulators, the truth is i’m not too clear on it.

Run the emulator for the new Nintendo console It’ll be like putting a target on your back and it will mean that sooner or later the author or authors of the emulator would have to face legal problems amounting to millions of dollars. Few people will be willing to take this risk and devote many hours to the development of a “doomed” project.

Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to launch on first quarter of 2025although according to fairly reliable sources, the console has been ready for a long time and should have already arrived on the market. Nintendo hasn’t released it yet because they reportedly have a lot of Nintendo Switch inventory and preferred to give retailers a little more room to make cleaning a little easier.

It makes sense, the Japanese company knows this as soon as they launch their new console interest in the Nintendo Switch will decline, and this will reduce sales and make it difficult to clear the units accumulated in stores.

The Unce (Switch 2) seems to use the same tools and ROM format that Nintendo currently uses for the Switch 1 (the ROMs are still NSP), but apparently they have new encryption keys that only Nintendo has.

— Center LEAKS (@CentroLeaks) October 17, 2024