Hearsay: Swap “Successor” Will Be Backwards Suitable, It is Claimed

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 most recent spherical of trade whispers about this anticipated machine, “trade insider” Nate the Hate is now claiming this new machine “has backwards compatibility assist”. This newest replace (by way of VGC) follows comparable backwards compatibility claims from peripheral maker Mobapad earlier this yr.

Nintendo is formally referring to this new machine because the “Swap successor”, which already suggests there might be some form of connection to the present {hardware}.

The newest hearsay follows hypothesis a couple of potential ‘Swap 2’ reveal going down as early as this month. David Gibson, Senior Analyst at MST Finacial, has additionally supplied an replace on one improvement “no-one appears to have seen”. It seems Nintendo assembler Hosiden has been spending huge 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 machine.”

Nintendo has already talked about in earlier statements the way it’s seeking to switch sure techniques (together with accounts) throughout to its subsequent technology of {hardware}, so backwards compatibility makes loads of sense.

The Japanese firm will announce its subsequent mannequin Swap within the present “fiscal yr”, so earlier than the tip of March 2025.