Nintendo has confirmed that the successor to the Nintendo Swap will probably be backward appropriate with the Nintendo Swap.
In a publish on X, the platform holder additionally introduced that additional details about the successor to the Nintendo Swap would come “at a later date.”
“That is Furukawa. At right now’s Company Administration Coverage Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Swap software program may also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Swap. Nintendo Swap On-line will probably be out there on the successor to Nintendo Swap as properly. Additional details about the successor to Nintendo Swap, together with its compatibility with Nintendo Swap, will probably be introduced at a later date.
The publish additionally confirmed that Nintendo Swap On-line can be out there on the successor console. No additional particulars on its implementation had been introduced.
Earlier right now, Nintendo reiterated it nonetheless intends to announce its subsequent console {hardware} earlier than the tip of its present fiscal 12 months, which concludes on March 31, 2025.
President Shuntaro Furukawa made the feedback throughout an internet press convention on Tuesday, following the publication of Nintendo’s newest earnings outcomes, however the govt didn’t add any extra particulars.
Based on a report, builders have reportedly been briefed to not count on Nintendo’s subsequent console to launch earlier than April 2025.
“No developer I’ve spoken to expects it to be launching this monetary 12 months,” stated GI.biz journalist Chris Dring. “In truth, they’ve been instructed to not count on it within the [current] monetary 12 months. A bunch of individuals I spoke to hope it’s out in April or Could time, nonetheless early subsequent 12 months, not late.
“I don’t assume any of us needs a late launch for Swap 2 as a result of all of us desire a new Nintendo console, everybody will get very excited for it, and we don’t need that crunch of Grand Theft Auto 6 and Swap and all that sort of stuff on prime of one another.”
Having launched in March 2017, Swap is in its eighth 12 months in the marketplace. In July, it surpassed the Famicom because the Nintendo console with the longest lifespan earlier than being changed.
