One query everybody desires to know is that if Nintendo’s next-generation {hardware} will embrace backwards compatibility assist. Earlier {hardware} releases from the Japanese agency have supported this characteristic, so will this be the case with the Swap successor?
Following the newest spherical of trade whispers about this anticipated gadget, “trade insider” Nate the Hate is now claiming this new gadget “has backwards compatibility assist”. This newest replace (through VGC) follows related backwards compatibility claims from peripheral maker Mobapad earlier this 12 months.
Nintendo is formally referring to this new gadget because the “Swap successor”, which already suggests there might be some type of connection to the present {hardware}.
The most recent hearsay follows hypothesis a couple of doable ‘Swap 2’ reveal happening as early as this month. David Gibson, Senior Analyst at MST Finacial, has additionally offered an replace on one improvement “no-one appears to have seen”. It seems Nintendo assembler Hosiden has been spending large on its main buyer (Nintendo):
“The Nintendo assembler- Hosiden is spending ¥2bn on manufacturing gear and ¥1bn on automation in FY3/25 for its main buyer in amusement (Nintendo). I nonetheless anticipate Sept information and March 2025 launch for subsequent gadget.”
Nintendo has already talked about in earlier statements the way it’s seeking to switch sure methods (together with accounts) throughout to its subsequent era of {hardware}, so backwards compatibility makes lots of sense.
The Japanese firm will announce its subsequent mannequin Swap within the present “fiscal 12 months”, so earlier than the tip of March 2025.
