Nintendo's next-gen Switch console will be backward compatible with the Switch, the company says in its latest earnings report. "Nintendo Switch software will...be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch,

Nintendo hasn’t announced its Switch successor yet, but we do know one thing for sure: it will be able to play current Switch games and have carryover for your Nintendo Switch Online services and account.

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said on Wednesday that software for the company's Switch console would be playable on the successor device.

There's good news if you've got a huge Switch library, as the Nintendo Switch 2 will officially be backwards compatible with old games.

Nintendo explained that it's making Switch Online available on the upcoming console, because it thinks it's important for the company's future to "carry over the good relationship" it has built with its more than 100 million annual playing users to the new device.

Nintendo’s upcoming Switch successor will support backward compatibility, allowing current games to run on the new console.

The Nintendo Switch successor will be backwards compatible Nintendo announced today, as information about the console trickles out.

Nintendo earned a net income of $711 million on revenues of $3.43 billion for the quarter ending September 30, 2024. Those figures represent massive declines of 60 percent and 34.3 percent, respectively,