Nintendo’s subsequent console will reportedly have backwards compatibility assist.
That’s in accordance with trade insider Nate the Hate, who has a observe document of breaking information previous to its official announcement.
Responding to hypothesis that Swap 2 could have entered mass manufacturing, he stated in a Reddit publish on Wednesday: “It has backwards compatibility assist.”
Earlier this 12 months, Swap peripheral maker Mobapad additionally claimed that Nintendo’s subsequent console shall be backwards suitable with bodily and digital video games.
Whereas Nintendo has shunned making any particular feedback about future {hardware} when requested about options like backwards compatibility, the corporate plans to announce its subsequent console throughout its present fiscal 12 months, which runs till March 31, 2025.
Final month, it was claimed that builders had been briefed to not anticipate Nintendo’s subsequent console to launch earlier than April 2025.
However on Wednesday, David Gibson, a senior analysis analyst at MST Monetary, prompt monetary steering from Nintendo assembler Hosiden may level to plans to launch the system sooner.
“No-one appears to have observed the Nintendo assembler- Hosiden is spending ¥2bn on manufacturing gear and ¥1bn on automation in FY3/25 for its main buyer in amusement (Nintendo),” he wrote. “I nonetheless anticipate Sept information and March 2025 launch for subsequent gadget.”
Chinese language peripheral maker Mobapad additionally beforehand claimed that the Swap 2 handheld will assist 1080p decision, and that its new dock will assist 4K decision.
The Pleasure-Cons on the brand new system shall be bigger than these on the present Swap, and can connect to it utilizing magnetic suction, as a substitute of the present sliding rail know-how, it stated.
