Source: https://x.com/NintendoCoLtd/status/1853972163033968794
This is Furukawa. At 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 be available on the successor to Nintendo Switch as well. Further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its compatibility with Nintendo Switch, will be announced at a later date.
Also, what a day to be casually posting this haha
Announce the damn thing already, I’m not gonna buy it, but still…
Guess what Nintendo? Backwards compatibility has been confirmed using this EMULATOR, but it won’t be played on your hardware anymore.
Or it will be just a hardware revision instead of an actual new console.
As in I ain’t buying anymore Nintendo consoles anyway so it doesn’t matter what they release.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this lie from a console manufacturer.
Nintendo’s got a pretty good track record.
At the hardware level yes, software, yes as long as you don’t mind repaying for something you bought previously (potentially) and also don’t mind it being unavailable a few years later.
Source: had Wii U and switch.
The WiiU could run the entire Wii OS, so that’s pretty good for backwards compatibility
You and the 3 other wii u owners had a rough time… that generation and move to switch was super weird.
While they’ve shut down online services for some of the older consoles, the backwards compatibility of the Xbox has always been excellent. I was playing Crimson Skies for the OG Xbox on my Series S a few weeks ago.
Can’t do that with a 360 though.
360 was absolutely backwards compatible with the OG Xbox.
Oh whaaat. Which consoles were hecking it up? I remember being mad.
It took about a year for it to get near-full compatibility with old games since it was emulated on the 360.
Great now let me play my WWHD for WiiU on the switch. I’m waiting.
Oh my God I want it so bad.
I never owned my own copy of Wind Waker. I borrowed it when I was a kid from a friend and then later I played the Wii-U version from a different friend. Now that I’m like, an adult (more or less) with my own console, I want a copy for myself. And also I want to play it again. Man! Love that game!
I got tired of waiting and played WWHD on a Steam Deck, ran flawlessly from start to end!
Hopefully it’ll play old carts and not just digital downloads 🤞
I feel like the language chosen was very specific for good reason.
I’m guessing this is from consumer pressure, until the Switch people definitely bought more physical copies of games and the minority of people got digital versions of DS/Wii-U games, but now so many people are using nintendo online and buying virtual copies people probably would not buy the next console if they had to buy the games they liked again.
I mean, Nintendo have often been fairly good with back compatibility.
If the architecture and form factor of physical media isn’t really changing, there’s not a lot of need to block older games from running.
They’re already on ARM, and there’s not much better for mobile gaming and GPUs have been fairly similar for a long time now.
The more interesting question is: will the Switch games get a performance boost on Switch 2? And it’s probably going to depend on the game. I’d imagine they’ll test a lot of the more popular titles, and anything with issues just gets it disabled until the developer patches it. It’d be nice to play TotK at a decent frame rate. Impressive as it is, it certainly chugs.
Fuck Nintendo
The pokemon teraleak sayd the switch 2 its basically a switch with better spects. Thqts Also why nintendo are taking down the emulators of switch now. Will be very easy to pirate switch 2 day one with thouse emulators.
Company who uses emulators while suing other emulators says what?
