While the upcoming console is yet to be officially unveiled by the company, Nintendo has confirmed that the Switch 2 (or whatever it's called) will be backwards compatible with the original console. It's great news for fans of the Nintendo Switch, which has amassed quite the library since launching back in 2017.

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In a post on the official Nintendo investor relations account on X, Nintendo CEO Shuntaro Furukawa said that “Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to