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Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch

Nintendo has confirmed that the successor to the Nintendo Switch will be backward compatible with the Nintendo Switch.

In a post on X, the platform holder also announced that further information about the successor to the Nintendo Switch would come “at a later date.” “No developer I’ve spoken to expects it to be launching this financial year,” said GI.biz journalist Chris Dring. A bunch of people I spoke to hope it’s out in April or May time, still early next year, not late.

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