Nintendo confirms Switch's successor will be backwards compatible

[Mar1217]

Jumpin said:

Mar1217 said:

The expected since we were almost sure the sucessor would be most similar to the Switch architecture. There was never a real reason for it not to happen appart from the few people coming with the usual " Buh Nin-tendo " rethoric we usually get in these cases.

Anyway, our library of games is safe everyone!

Although I do wonder what this means for the Eshop on the launch day of the sucessor... Will we get a new re-started experience or will it just be a straight up continuation of where we will be ?

My hope is for an expanding ecosystem with Switch 2 being more like a second layer than a separate experience.
It can also function as an upsell mechanism by showing that second later to Switch 1 users while limiting purchase/download access to Switch 2.

However it happens, I hope that Switch 2's EShop functions better than Switch 1. Because very early on I started using the web version instead because certain trailers wouldn't buffer effectively, causing a lot of skipping; or my long lists being laggy and slow to navigate; or outright crashes. I hope Switch 2 dedicates some resources to this for a slick experience.

Pretty sure the newer CPU will do the job just fine for it. That was one of the initial problem with the Switch.