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.

Nintendo confirmed today that Switch games will be playable on its next console, which should be announced before the end of March 2025.

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,

While the Switch 2 may be backwards compatible, Nintendo would not confirm whether we'll still be able to use our old cartridges.

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.