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 can 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 can be out there on the successor to Nintendo Swap as properly.”
Gamers with large Swap recreation libraries all over the place simply heaved an enormous sigh of aid. It wasn’t a whole shock, nevertheless, as there had been some clues that all the pieces on the present {hardware} may carry over to the Swap 2. Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser beforehand urged that the corporate was targeted on making a easy 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 longer term.
With Swap On-line additionally being suitable with the subsequent console, it looks as if the entire emulation work Nintendo’s already achieved to make NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Sport Boy, Sport Boy Advance, and Sega Genesis video games work on its fashionable platform received’t must be repeated this time round when switching from one system’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, can 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 thousands and thousands extra of the present Swap fashions.
Nintendo beforehand stated it will announce the Swap 2, or no matter it finally ends up calling the successor console, earlier than the tip of March 2025. Regardless of the wait, the corporate reiterated that time-table immediately, saying nothing had modified.