Nintendo has announced that games for the Switch will be playable on its next gaming console. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said on Wednesday that the company had decided it would be “optimal” to include backwards compatibility in the successor to the Switch given its enormous popularity.

Japanese video game maker Nintendo’s chief says its Switch console sales are still going strong, while he promised that a successor is coming.

Backward compatibility was considered a make-or-break feature for the Switch 2. Although strongly rumored, there remained doubts that Nintendo would be able to pull it off if the