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Nintendo president confirms Switch successor will be backward-compatible

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company’s upcoming Switch successor will be backward compatible. But he did so without saying anything about what the Switch 2 will be.

That means the new Switch console, perhaps dubbed the Switch 2, will be able to play games from the older Switch that debuted in 2017.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.