You will be able to play your Nintendo Switch games on its fan

You don’t have to take great pains to maintain your Switch to ensure you can still play your favorite games on it years and years from now. Nintendo revealed in its earnings report that its successor will be backwards compatible and will be able to play games made for the current console. In addition, Switch Online will also be available on the Switch 2, meaning your cloud saves will be transferable and you’ll be able to play NES, SNES and Game Boy titles on the new console.

Nintendo explained that it is making Switch Online available on the upcoming console, because it thinks it is important for the future of the company to “continue the good relationship” created by its users who play annually more than 100 million on the new device. The main way to do that is to use a Nintendo Account, which consolidates a user’s history into a single account and allows the company to “maintain a continuous relationship” with them across console generations. Before Nintendo Account was introduced, Nintendo didn’t have an easy way to manage user history and carry it over to the next console. “Because of this, our relationship with consumers was disturbed when the new system was purchased,” he said.

The company promised to reveal more information about the Switch 2 “in the future,” though it didn’t say exactly when. At the latest event where we thought the new Switch would be announced, Nintendo unveiled an alarm clock instead. Based on its earnings results, it looks like people may choose to wait for a new console instead of buying the current Switch: The company had to lower its sales forecast for the fiscal year due to a sharp decline in console sales on a comparable basis. times last year.