You’ll be able to play your Nintendo Switch games on its successor

There’s no need to go to great lengths to protect your Switch to ensure you can play your favorite games for years and years to come. Nintendo announced it income statement that is forthcoming The successor to the Switch it will be backwards compatible and will be able to handle games developed for the current console. Additionally, Switch Online will also be available on the Switch 2, meaning your cloud saves will be carried over and you’ll be able to play NES, SNES and Game Boy games on the new console.

Nintendo explained that it’s making Switch Online available on the upcoming console because it believes it’s important to the company’s future to “continue the good relationship” it’s built with its 100 million-plus annual gaming users on the new device. The main way to do this is by using a Nintendo Account, which ties a user’s history to a single account and allows the company to “keep in touch” with them across console generations. Before Nintendo Account was introduced, Nintendo didn’t have an easy way to transfer a user’s history and purchases to the next console. “As a result, we lost contact with consumers when the new system was purchased,” he said.

The company promised to reveal more information about the Switch 2 “at a later date”, although it did not specify when exactly. Nintendo at a recent event where we thought the new Switch might be announced set off the alarm clock instead of. Based on the earnings results, it looks like people may choose to wait for the new console instead of buying the current Switch: That’s what the company should have done. lowered the sales forecast due to a large decline in console sales for the fiscal year compared to the same periods last year.