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It's all ARM with hardware from the same OEM.
Yes there's a lot of big differences, but Nintendo certainly demanded backwards compatibility from nVidia, so any major CPU and GPU instructions which games are dependent on are certainly either still implemented or emulated properly.
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/transfer-guide/compatible-games/
They're still in the testing process for compatibility. Any change can break assumptions the developer made, even if it's just tiny, so some games might need patches, but so far that's very few games.
So you don't okay
Yes the switch and the switch two uses ARM architecture but an arm5 differs enough from arm7 that you need a translation layer.
But what would give Nintendo more money, Proton on the system preinstalled or demanding the customer to pay up (which afaik was on one of the screens to see during the direct)
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/tech-specs/
It explicitly mentions that switch 1 game cards works, without an asterisk. Wouldn't be nice to state that and then don't support the games without paying extra. The only thing they've stated on that is the compatibility thing from the prior link, and that specific games have paid upgrades but don't need payments to play the original version.
(unless the upgrades are equivalent to a big DLC with significant content addons that's pretty greedy, IMHO, but it's still not required to play 🤷)
https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured-games/switch-2-edition/?srsltid=AfmBOooHHEbAejpkZs6Tbv7W6MFclD7y1Q27hSVk7sTCGncgApkj5s1V