One query everybody needs to know is that if Nintendo’s next-generation {hardware} will embody backwards compatibility help. Earlier {hardware} releases from the Japanese agency have supported this function, so will this be the case with the Swap successor?
Following the newest spherical of business whispers about this anticipated system, “business insider” Nate the Hate is now claiming this new system “has backwards compatibility help”. This newest replace (through VGC) follows related backwards compatibility claims from peripheral maker Mobapad earlier this yr.
Nintendo is formally referring to this new system because the “Swap successor”, which already suggests there might be some kind of connection to the present {hardware}.
The most recent hearsay follows hypothesis about a doable ‘Swap 2’ reveal going down as early as this month. David Gibson, Senior Analyst at MST Finacial, has additionally offered an replace on one growth “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 tools 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 system.”
Nintendo has already talked about in earlier statements the way it’s trying to switch sure methods (together with accounts) throughout to its subsequent era of {hardware}, so backwards compatibility makes a number of sense.
The Japanese firm will announce its subsequent mannequin Swap within the present “fiscal yr”, so earlier than the tip of March 2025.
