Nintendo hasn’t announced its Switch successor yet, but we do know one thing for sure: it will be able to play current Switch games and have carryover for your Nintendo Switch Online services and account. The news was announced during Nintendo’s midyear policy briefing, with further information promised “at a later date.”

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

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Nintendo's president, Shuntaro Furukawa, has confirmed that Nintendo Switch games will be backward-compatible with the upcoming Switch 2. Specifically, he said Switch software will be compatible, but this likely also means physical cartridges will also work on the new console.

The next Nintendo console will play games from the original Switch--here's everything we know and what questions remain unanswered.

It’s recently been announced that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with current-generation hardware. Here are three reasons why this had to happen.

Nintendo may be on the cusp of revealing the successor to the wildly successful Switch, but the company won't leave its old console completely in the dust. In a recent briefing, Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2 (or whatever Nintendo calls it) will be backward compatible with games for the original Switch.