[STEAM] Nintendo announces backward compatibility for its Switch successor

[Steam 0]

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

Image: The Verge Nintendo hasn’t announced its

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

yet, but we do know one thing for sure: it will be able to play current Switch games and have carryover for your Nintendo Switch Online services and account. The news was announced during Nintendo’s midyear policy briefing, with further information promised “at a later date.”

Nintendo also talked about numbers for the current Switch (

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

), noting that it sold 4.72 million units in the past three months, a drop of 31 percent compared to the same ******* last year but well above previous consoles eight years after they launched.

That adds up to 146 million Switch units sold and a new record for software sales on a Nintendo platform, which reached 1.3 billion units as of September 30th, 2024....

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up

This is the hidden content, please

• Sign In
• or
• Sign Up