Nintendo may be on the cusp of revealing the successor to the wildly successful Switch, but the company won't leave its old console completely in the dust. In a recent briefing, Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2 (or whatever Nintendo calls it) will be backward compatible with games for the original Switch.

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It seemed common sense to add original Switch backward compatibility to the Nintendo Switch 2, or whatever its successor will be called, but the feature was never officially confirmed until today. Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has now announced that you'll be able to continue playing your Switch games on its new hardware.

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