Portable Nintendo consoles in the Game Boy and Nintendo DS/3DS lines have all offered full backward compatibility with the previous generation of hardware in a line stretching back to the 1990s.

Nintendo has announced that the Switch 2 will play games made for the original console. Even though the company still hasn’t officially announced the device, it’s been dropping hints about ...

Nintendo fans have good reason to be excited about February 2025. 2024 was likely the last year of the Switch being Nintendo ...

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But the company feels comfortable revealing to the world that the Nintendo Switch successor will run original Switch games. Backward compatibility is always a hot topic when a brand-new console is ...

Nintendo has confirmed that its unannounced Switch 2 will be backward-compatible with games from the original Switch. The company's president, Shuntaro Furukawa, took to Twitter to share the news ...

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only behind the Nintendo DS and Sony's PlayStation 2. With over 7 years on the market, it has received hundreds of games, with many first-party titles hitting never-before-seen milestones.

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While everyone (in the U.S. at least) is glued to their TV watching the 2024 election returns, Nintendo officially confirmed that its next gaming console will be backwards compatible with the Switch.