It was made official last night by Mr Shuntaro Furukawa, the current big boss of Nintendo, the Nintendo Switch 2 (temporary code name) will be backwards compatible with all Nintendo Switch games. Just like the Nintendo Switch Online service which will also be present on this future machine, about which we still don’t know anything officially. Of course, we could rely on rumors and other usual patent leaks, but so much has been said about the Switch Pro 4K (even among major media like Bloomberg) that we will avoid adding more. any further. In any case, such an announcement proves that Nintendo is not ready to sit on the 146 million users of its hybrid console and above all not repeat the mistakes of the past, in particular what was done with the transition from the Wii to the Wii U, which was a real industrial disaster with a machine that sold 13 million units in the space of six years of operation.
The announcement of this backward compatibility came following Nintendo’s second quarter financial results and here are a few choice words: “This is Furukawa. During today’s Corporate Management Policy briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Online will also be available on the successor to Nintendo Switch.” All we have to do now is wait for Nintendo to really communicate about this Nintendo Switch 2.
