Switch games will be playable on Switch successor

Switch games will be playable on the successor to Switch, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said during the company’s second quarter financial results and corporate management policy briefing for the fiscal year ending March 2025.

“This is Furukawa,” Furukawa said in a summary tweet. “At today’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Online will be available on the successor to Nintendo Switch as well. Further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its compatibility with Nintendo Switch, will be announced at a later date.”

As previously stated, the successor to Switch will be announced within this fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025.

Here is the full content of the corporate management policy briefing regarding the successor to Switch:

• “Until Nintendo Switch, there was no easy way to have consumers’ purchase and gameplay histories carry over across platform generations. As a result, our relationship with the consumers was interrupted when a new system was purchased.”
• “The introduction of Nintendo Account made it possible to tie consumers’ history to their personal account, enabling Nintendo to maintain a continuous relationship with the consumers across platform generations.”
• “We have communicated that we plan on making an announcement regarding the successor to Nintendo Switch during this fiscal year. We believe that it is important for Nintendo’s future to make use of Nintendo Account and carry over the good relationship that we have built with the over 100 million annual playing users on Nintendo Switch to its successor.”
• “Thus, we will make Nintendo Switch Online, a service based on Nintendo Account, available on the successor to Nintendo Switch.”

• “Furthermore, Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch.”
• “In addition to being able to play Nintendo Switch software they currently own, consumers will be able to choose their next purchase from a broad selection of titles released for Nintendo Switch.”
• “Further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its compatibility with Nintendo Switch I explained today, will be announced at a later date.”