In Nintendo’s case, its inclusion was never a sure thing. While bestselling hardware like the Wii and DS were able to play games from their predecessors, Nintendo often started over from scratch with a new console generation — which meant that players did,

Nintendo has announced that the current Nintendo Switch software will be playable on its successor. This was revealed during a Corporate Management Policy Briefing and on social media. While this was once the norm for consoles for a few generations,

Nintendo’s upcoming Switch successor will support backward compatibility, allowing current games to run on the new console.

It's unclear yet how the Switch successor will approach backward compatibility, but Nintendo is promising details at a later date on this feature.

A great day for Nintendo Switch fans – the upcoming Nintendo Switch successor (that's probably arriving in 2025) is going to be backwards compatible with the original console. So, if you're a die-hard fan of some particular Nintendo Switch 1 game,

You don't have to take great pains to preserve your Switch to ensure that you can still play your favorite games on it years and years from now. Nintendo has revealed in its earnings report that the upcoming successor to the Switch will have backwards compatibility and will be able to run games made for the current console.

The momentum of the Nintendo Switch hasn’t stopped,” President Shuntaro Furukawa told reporters. His comments come a day after Nintendo reported a 60% drop in its fiscal first half profit, largely because of declining sales of the Switch,

Quick Summary Nintendo's president has confirmed a couple of key features of the successor to the Switch. The Nintendo Switch 2 will come with backward compatibility for all existing and future Switch games,

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