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Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said on Wednesday that software for the company's Switch console would be playable on the successor device.

The company says that Nintendo Switch Online will make its way to the technically still-unannounced console, too.

"More software has been played on Nintendo Switch than on any other Nintendo hardware." As US states were busy counting votes to confirm who would be the next president Tuesday night, Nintendo's Japanese Twitter account was busy confirming a key backward compatibility feature for the upcoming "Nintendo Switch successor,

At today’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch,” Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa wrote on Twitter.

Nintendo announced Tuesday that Nintendo Switch software “will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch,” according to a post from Nintendo’s corporate X account. The post, attributed to Shuntaro Furukawa,