Nintendo says its Switch successor will be backward compatible with Switch games

Nintendo hasn’t announced its Switch successor yet, but we bash cognize 1 happening for sure: it volition beryllium capable to play existent Switch games, with carryover for your Nintendo Switch Online services and account. The quality was announced during Nintendo’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, with further accusation promised “at a aboriginal date.”

All 3 of the large console manufacturers person had spotty records with backward compatibility. Both the Xbox Series X and the PS5 are mostly backward-compatible. But since the modulation from the Wii U progressive going from discs to cartridges, the Switch is not. Playing a crippled from erstwhile Nintendo consoles is simply a relation of optimism, involving the anticipation that either Nintendo releases a remastered Switch larboard oregon brings the crippled to its Switch Online library.

The speech astir backward compatibility isn’t conscionable astir subordinate restitution but besides video crippled preservation. A report from the Video Game History Foundation recovered that implicit 87 percent of games released earlier 2010 are “critically endangered” oregon unavailable for purchase. While Nintendo has brought immoderate of its backmost catalog to the Switch, determination are inactive a batch of inaccessible games. Nintendo besides straight contributed to the expanding scarcity of older games by shutting down the Wii U / 3DS e-shop past year.