A giant query across the Swap 2 has simply been answered. Whereas everybody (within the U.S. at the least) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo formally confirmed that its subsequent gaming console might be backwards suitable with the Swap.
“At right now’s Company Administration Coverage Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Swap software program may also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Swap,” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote on Twitter. “Nintendo Swap On-line might be out there on the successor to Nintendo Swap as effectively.”
Gamers with huge Swap recreation libraries all over the place simply heaved an enormous sigh of aid. It wasn’t an entire shock, nonetheless, as there had been some clues that every little thing on the present {hardware} may carry over to the Swap 2. Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser beforehand advised that the corporate was centered on making a easy transition between consoles. On the identical time, nobody would have put it previous Nintendo to do the unthinkable and buck the present expectations round taking your older recreation libraries into the long run.
With Swap On-line additionally being suitable with the following console, it looks like all the emulation work Nintendo’s already carried out to make NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Sport Boy, Sport Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis video games work on its trendy platform received’t must be repeated this time round when switching from one system’s digital console to a different.
However the place does this depart the Swap 2’s precise announcement? “Additional details about the successor to Nintendo Swap, together with its compatibility with Nintendo Swap, might be introduced at a later date,” Furukawa added in his tweet. Many anticipated a reveal as early as September or October. Now, nonetheless, the window for a 2024 announcement appears to be closing quick, particularly as the corporate prepares for its vacation blitz aimed toward promoting tens of millions extra of the present Swap fashions.
Nintendo beforehand mentioned it could announce the Swap 2, or no matter it finally ends up calling the successor console, earlier than the tip of March 2025. Regardless of the wait, the corporate reiterated that time-table right now, saying nothing had modified.
