A giant query across the Swap 2 has simply been answered. Whereas everybody (within the U.S. no less than) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo formally confirmed that its subsequent gaming console shall be backwards appropriate with the Swap.
“At right this moment’s Company Administration Coverage Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Swap software program may even be playable on the successor to Nintendo Swap,” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote on Twitter. “Nintendo Swap On-line shall be obtainable on the successor to Nintendo Swap as nicely.”
Gamers with huge Swap sport libraries all over the place simply heaved an enormous sigh of reduction. It wasn’t an entire shock, nonetheless, as there had been some clues that every little thing on the prevailing {hardware} would possibly carry over to the Swap 2. Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser beforehand prompt 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 sport libraries into the longer term.
With Swap On-line additionally being appropriate with the following console, it looks like all the emulation work Nintendo’s already performed to make NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Recreation Boy, Recreation Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis video games work on its fashionable platform received’t should 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, shall 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 geared toward promoting tens of millions extra of the prevailing Swap fashions.
Nintendo beforehand stated it could announce the Swap 2, or no matter it finally ends up calling the successor console, earlier than the top of March 2025. Regardless of the wait, the corporate reiterated that time-table right this moment, saying nothing had modified.
