A giant query across the Swap 2 has simply been answered. Whereas everybody (within the U.S. at the very least) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo formally confirmed that its subsequent gaming console might be backwards appropriate with the Swap.
“At in the present day’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 might 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 an entire shock, nevertheless, as there had been some clues that every thing on the prevailing {hardware} may carry over to the Swap 2. Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser beforehand instructed that the corporate was targeted on making a clean 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 appropriate with the subsequent console, it looks as if the entire emulation work Nintendo’s already achieved to make NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Recreation Boy, Recreation Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis video games work on its fashionable platform gained’t need to be repeated this time round when switching from one gadget’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, 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 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 in the present day, saying nothing had modified.
