An enormous query across the Swap 2 has simply been answered. Whereas everybody (within the U.S. a minimum of) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo formally confirmed that its subsequent gaming console shall be backwards suitable with the Swap.
“At at this time’s Company Administration Coverage Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Swap software program will even be playable on the successor to Nintendo Swap,” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote on Twitter. “Nintendo Swap On-line shall be out there on the successor to Nintendo Swap as properly.”
Gamers with large Swap recreation libraries in every single place simply heaved an enormous sigh of reduction. It wasn’t a whole shock, nevertheless, as there had been some clues that every part on the present {hardware} would possibly carry over to the Swap 2. Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser beforehand steered that the corporate was targeted 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 machine’s digital console to a different.
However the place does this go away 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, nevertheless, the window for a 2024 announcement appears to be closing quick, particularly as the corporate prepares for its vacation blitz aimed toward promoting hundreds of thousands extra of the present 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 at this time, saying nothing had modified.
