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Nintendo president confirms Switch successor will be backward-compatible

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company's upcoming Switch successor will be backward compatible.

And it’s easier to do backward compatibility if Nintendo stays with its current hardware architecture, using the same key vendors such as Nvidia. This would suggest that Nintendo is going with a console that improves on the processing power of the latest semiconductor technology but does not change the architecture in a dramatic way. It’s a second-generation Maxwell chip, which is pretty archaic by modern PC standards, and it only has 4GB of DRAM, or memory for running programs.

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