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.

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

Nintendo first announced the new Switch 2 feature at its Corporate Management Policy Briefing, as one does, and then tweeted out confirmation of the fact that the new console will be backward compatible with the games from the original one: “This is Furukawa.

Nintendo plans to announce the Switch successor before April 2025, but this is good news for all current Switch owners. The company also revealed that over 146 million console uni

Nintendo's president confirmed that it still plans to reveal the successor to the Switch before the end of the current fiscal year.

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa once again addresses questions about the Switch 2 during the company's latest earnings call.