A giant query across the Swap 2 has simply been answered. Whereas everybody (within the U.S. not less than) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo formally confirmed that its subsequent gaming console will likely be backwards suitable with the Swap.
“At immediately’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 will likely be out there on the successor to Nintendo Swap as nicely.”
Gamers with huge Swap recreation libraries in all places simply heaved an enormous sigh of aid. It wasn’t an entire shock, nonetheless, as there had been some clues that every little thing on the present {hardware} would possibly carry over to the Swap 2. Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser previously suggested that the corporate was centered on making a clean transition between consoles. On the similar 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 as if all the emulation work Nintendo’s already accomplished to make NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Sport Boy, Sport Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis video games work on its trendy platform gained’t should 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, will likely 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 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 immediately, saying nothing had modified.
