Nintendo has announced that games developed for the Nintendo Switch, as well as the Nintendo Switch Online service, will be compatible with the company’s next successor console, which is expected to be presented no later than March next year; that is, in a few months.
The Japanese video game company announced in May of this year that it would present its new video game console, successor to the current Nintendo Switch, during this fiscal year, which runs until March of next year 2025.
Now, although the new console has not yet been presented, Nintendo has confirmed that it will be backward compatible. That is, previous games developed for the Nintendo Switch will also be available for the new successor console.
This was confirmed by the president of Nintendo, Shuntaro Furukawa, during a briefing on the technology company’s corporate management policies, where he specified that the content of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service will also be compatible with the new ‘hardware’, according to shared in a post on X (former Twitter).
With all this, Furukawa has concluded by emphasizing that they will continue to share more information about the company’s next console “later”, although he has not shared a specific date for the presentation of the machine, nor about the day on which it will arrive in stores. shelves.
Nintendo presented this Tuesday the results for the first half of fiscal year 2025, a period during which it recorded an attributable net profit of 108,658 million yen (656.2 million euros). Likewise, he also clarified that, regarding sales of the Nintendo Switch console, he expects to sell 12.5 million game consoles throughout the year, one million less than planned.
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