You’ll play your Nintendo Swap video games on its successor

You do not have to take nice pains to protect your Swap to make sure you could nonetheless play your favourite video games on it years and years from now. Nintendo has revealed in its earnings report that the upcoming successor to the Switch could have backwards compatibility and can be capable to run video games made for the present console. As well as, Swap On-line may even be obtainable on the Swap 2, which suggests your saves saved on the cloud can be carried over and you can play NES, SNES and Sport Boy titles on the brand new console.

Nintendo defined that it is making Swap On-line obtainable on the upcoming console, as a result of it thinks it is vital for the corporate’s future to “carry over the nice relationship” it has constructed with its greater than 100 million annual taking part in customers to the brand new gadget. The principle manner to take action is to utilize the Nintendo Account, which ties a person’s historical past to 1 account and allows the corporate to “keep a steady relationship” with them throughout console generations. Earlier than the Nintendo Account was launched, Nintendo had no simple strategy to carry a person’s historical past and purchases over to the following console. “Consequently, our relationship with the shoppers was interrupted when a brand new system was bought,” it mentioned.

The corporate promised to disclose extra details about the Swap 2 “at a later date,” although it did not say when precisely. In a latest occasion the place we thought the brand new Swap may very well be introduced, Nintendo launched an alarm clock as a substitute. Based mostly on its earnings outcomes, it seems to be like folks may very well be selecting to attend for the brand new console as a substitute of shopping for the present Swap: The corporate needed to downgrade its sales forecast for the fiscal yr as a consequence of an enormous decline in console gross sales in comparison with the identical intervals final yr.