Nintendo confirms best news for Switch 2

They say that when a river sounds, it carries water. Well, the rumors and leaks about the Nintendo Switch 2 keep coming. They arrive almost daily, and today we must add to this a valuable statement from Fukurawa himself. The company’s president revealed one of the biggest unknowns about the next console: online catalog management. His words, in fact, could not have been clearer.

Thanks to publication in X (Twitter)commented on several details that fans of the company have been waiting for for several months. The first and most important thing is that The Switch’s catalog of online games will be fully compatible with Switch 2. This means that all deliveries purchased digitally can be played on a nearby console. “Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor console to the Nintendo Switch.“, confirmed Fukurawa.

In fact, there is no room for interpretation in his words: he is straightforward and confirms that software, the first console can be played on the second. There don’t seem to be any exceptions or “almost all software”. Without a doubt, this was one of the questions that most concerned all those users who have been accumulating games in their online library for the past 8 years. Now there is no doubt.

However, it is too early to talk about How will this compatibility work?. A few lines below you can read “Additional information about Nintendo Switch 2, including its compatibility with Nintendo Switch, will be announced at a later date.“So there seems to be more to explain than opening up the Nintendo eShop and downloading all those supplies you had saved on your original console.

Nintendo Switch Online is also coming to Switch 2

There is a detail that did not need much confirmation, since it was obvious, but it is always useful for the head of the company to cross it off the list of official things. Certainly, Nintendo Switch Online Coming to Switch 2 when it hits the market. It’s normal that the big N will feature some design and feature upgrades, but its price and performance should be very similar to the current service.

In this sense, the company has published a statement of accounts indicating Switch Online hiring drop during the first half of 2024. Therefore, Fukurawa’s statements, in addition to confirming information, may have the purpose of alleviate uncertainty about whether to continue bidding on an online catalog or stop shopping to see what happens with Switch 2. Now everything is clear.