A small but important update on the successor to the Nintendo Switch was revealed today, again on the Japanese gaming company’s Twitter/X account.
Shuntaro Furukawa, Representative Director and President, announced that the future console will support existing Nintendo Switch software and the Nintendo Switch Online service.
The news was posted first in Japanese and then in English. Furukawa detailed that this was revealed during a Corporate Management Policy Briefing and that further details on the compatibility function will come at a later date.
How the new system will handle Switch titles? It’s possible that Nintendo will continue with the same cartridge format (it makes sense from a manufacturing and cost standpoint). Perhaps an external USB adapter if the cartridge format changes? There’s also software emulation allowing downloaded titles to carryover onto the newer hardware. But this is all speculation.
No other information on the next console are known, not even its name, which fans and media refer to as “Switch 2.”
Nintendo confirmed back in May that a successor system is coming with an announcement to be made sometime within the company’s current fiscal year, which ends in March 2025.
Source: @NintendoCoLtd
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