Nintendo Switch 2 will have backwards compatibility with Switch games, and Nintendo Switch Online will be coming back too

Nov. 6, 2024

“Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch”

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Backwards compatibility between the Nintendo Switch 2 and its predecessor has been confirmed.

In an announcement early this morning, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that “at today’s corporate management policy briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch.” That means that all of your current Switch games will work on theSwitch 2, which should make the, ahem, switch to the new hardware easier when it comes.

Sadly, Furukawa remained pretty light on details. He closed his statement by saying that “further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its compatibility with Nintendo Switch, will be announced at a later date.”

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