You’ll be able to play your Nintendo Switch games on its successor

You do not have to take nice pains to protect your Swap to make sure that you could nonetheless play your favourite video games on it years and years from now. Nintendo has revealed in its earnings report that the upcoming successor to the Switch could have backwards compatibility and can have the ability to run video games made for the present console. As well as, Swap On-line can even be out there on the Swap 2, which implies your saves saved on the cloud will probably be carried over and you’ll play NES, SNES and Sport Boy titles on the brand new console.

Nintendo defined that it is making Swap On-line out there on the upcoming console, as a result of it thinks it is essential for the corporate’s future to “carry over the great relationship” it has constructed with its greater than 100 million annual taking part in customers to the brand new system. The principle means to take action is to utilize the Nintendo Account, which ties a person’s historical past to 1 account and permits the corporate to “keep a steady relationship” with them throughout console generations. Earlier than the Nintendo Account was launched, Nintendo had no simple solution to carry a person’s historical past and purchases over to the subsequent console. “Consequently, our relationship with the shoppers was interrupted when a brand new system was bought,” it mentioned.

The corporate promised to disclose extra details about the Swap 2 “at a later date,” although it did not say when precisely. In a current occasion the place we thought the brand new Swap could possibly be introduced, Nintendo launched an alarm clock as an alternative. Based mostly on its earnings outcomes, it seems like folks could possibly be selecting to attend for the brand new console as an alternative of shopping for the present Swap: The corporate needed to downgrade its sales forecast for the fiscal yr attributable to an enormous decline in console gross sales in comparison with the identical intervals final yr.