Due to a lack of official information, there are many rumors surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2. However, Nintendo has now confirmed a feature - and that should please many Switch fans.
In the approximately eight years of operation of the Nintendo Switch Many fans have accumulated many games for the console. a generational change, there is a risk that older titles will no longer be compatible. Console manufacturers have therefore long been relying on so-called backward compatibility - Nintendo also announced this for the Switch 2. And the feature will actually come, as President Shuntaro Furukawa has now officially confirmed via "X".
Nintendo Switch 2: Online service also remains
The Nintendo Switch sales have collapsed – the Japanese company has not been able to announce particularly good news here recently. However, the situation is different with regard to the Nintendo Switch 2.
This is Furukawa. At today's Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Online will be available on the successor Nintendo Switch as well. Further information about...
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Here, the company confirmed that the console will still be announced in the current fiscal year until the end of March 2025 - and on Platform X, President Shuntaro Furukawa also officially announced that the backwards compatibility desired by fans will actually come. The idea behind the feature: the Nintendo Switch software should also be playable on the Nintendo Switch 2.
However, Shuntaro explained that details would be announced at a later date.
The same applies to the subscription service Nintendo Switch Online. This will also remain and will be fully usable for the Nintendo Switch 2.
It is unclear whether backwards compatibility will ultimately apply to all Nintendo Switch games, or only to final party titles, or whether developers will have to rework their old works. Information on this will probably follow as soon as Nintendo officially comments on the important feature of the Nintendo Switch 2.
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