The company said in a statement Thursday that the new machine “plays Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive games, as well as both physical and digital Nintendo Switch games” — which would fulfil a promise on ...

Today’s reveal skipped over all the necessary hardware specs, didn’t even hint at a price or actual launch date, and outside of Mario Kart 9 and backward compatibility, there’s no clues as ...

However, Nintendo assures that the console will support backward compatibility with both physical and digital Nintendo Switch games. It does caution that "certain Nintendo Switch games may not be ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 has just been officially revealed, and its announcement mercifully officially confirmed the rumors that it would be mostly fully backward compatible with Nintendo Switch 1 games.

The company didn't offer a lot of technical specs, but it did confirm that the Switch 2 will have backward compatibility for playing Switch games. At the end of the announcement video ...

That question is this: Will it be backwards compatible? Folks want to know if the Nintendo Switch 2 will be able to play the old Nintendo Switch games that we’ve been playing for most of the ...

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The Nintendo Switch 2 has just been officially revealed, and its announcement mercifully officially confirmed the rumors that it would be mostly fully backward compatible with Nintendo Switch 1 games.

Before today’s reveal of the Nintendo Switch 2 design we already knew that the console would be backwards compatible with old Switch games in some way. That was thanks to a November 2024 statement ...

Switch 2 will also feature backward compatibility with Switch 1 games—digitally and physically through the game cards. That said, Nintendo notes, "Certain Nintendo Switch games may not be ...