Nintendo has confirmed that the yet-to-be-announced Switch 2 shall be backward-compatible with unique Switch video games and can function Nintendo Switch Online.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa shared the information in the course of the firm’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, revealing a bit extra in regards to the successor to 2017’s Nintendo Switch.
“This is Furukawa,” Nintendo wrote on X/Twitter. “At immediately’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we introduced that Nintendo Switch software program may also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Online shall be accessible on the successor to Nintendo Switch as properly. Further details about the successor to Nintendo Switch, together with its compatibility with Nintendo Switch, shall be introduced at a later date.”
We have a ton left to study this new Switch as we’re nonetheless ready for its precise announcement, which Nintendo has beforehand mentioned will occur by the tip of March 2025.
The Current State of the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo additionally shared extra about gross sales of the present Switch and its software program, together with that it was chopping the gross sales projection of its present {hardware} for the monetary yr ending March 2025 from 13.5 million items to 12.5 million items.
Nintendo had a 17% income drop and a 69% revenue drop versus the identical quarter from its final monetary yr, and it offered 4.72 million Switch items within the six months ending September 30. That latter determine is down from the 6.84 million items offered throughout the identical interval final yr.
On the software program aspect from April to September 2024, Nintendo mentioned The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom gross sales have reached 2.58 million, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s have jumped up 2.31 million, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s have climbed to 1.94 million, and Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD’s have scared to 1.57 million.
For context, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now crossed a whopping 64.27 million items offered and is much and past the best-selling Switch recreation. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is at the moment in second place with 46.45 million items offered.
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