While the announcement of the Switch 2 is still a way off, Furukawa previously said the rumored console would not be released until the next fiscal year, which begins April 1, 2025. This timeline suggests careful planning to ensure optimal market conditions and production capabilities.

While the Switch 2 may be backwards compatible, Nintendo would not confirm whether we'll still be able to use our old cartridges.

IN May the internet was broken after Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa officially announced a successor to the Nintendo Switch. In a tweet, Furukawa-san revealed that the console people

The Nintendo Switch 2 has officially announced backwards compatibility, and this will be an important fix for a major issue of its predecessor.

Despite sales slump, plans for Switch 2 announcement remain on schedule for April 2025. The need for Switch 2 grows due to aging technology and struggles with third-party game performance.

The Nintendo Switch successor doesn't have a name or release date yet, but its library already has thousands of games in it: The company has officially announced that the successor system will play your existing Switch games.

At a Corporate Briefing, Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa confirmed that Switch 2 will have backward compatibility. Read more here.

Backwards compatibility between the Nintendo Switch 2 and its predecessor has been confirmed. In an announcement early this morning, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that "at today's corporate management policy briefing,

Nintendo first announced the new Switch 2 feature at its Corporate Management Policy Briefing, as one does, and then tweeted out confirmation of the fact that the new console will be backward compatible with the games from the original one: “This is Furukawa.